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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Papias of Hierapolis
Judas did not die by hanging, but lived on, having been cut down before he was suffocated. And the acts of the apostles show this, that falling head long he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out. This fact is related more clearly by Papias, the disciple of John, and the fourth book of the Expositions of the Oracles of the Lord as follows: Judas walked about in this world a terrible example of impiety; his flesh swollen to such an extent that, where hay wagon can pass with ease, he was not able to pass, no, not …
Western Saints
Jerome
But they said: What is that to us? You see. And throwing the silver coins into the temple, he left: and going away, he hanged himself. It availed him nothing to have repented, by which he could not correct his crime. If at any time a brother sins against his brother, so that he is able to amend what he has sinned, it can be forgiven to him. But if his works remain, repentance is taken up in vain with words. …
Thomas Aquinas
Then the despair is set forth. For one in despair cares nothing for temporal goods; and so this man acts, because "casting down the pieces of silver in the temple he departed" (he had no care for the money) "and went and hanged himself with a halter." Hence it is found at Acts 1:18 that he hanged himself and burst asunder in the midst. And why? Origen says that it happens that the devil hurls someone into sin, and although he gives a space of time, yet he wishes to hurl him into another. …
Rabanus Maurus
He hung himself, to show that he was hateful to both heaven and earth.
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