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Purchased (ἐκτήσατο)
See on possess, Luk 18:12. Better, as Rev., obtained. Judas did not purchase the field, but the priests did with the money which he returned to them, (Mat 27:7). The expression means merely that the field was purchased with the money of Judas.
Falling headlong (πρηνής γενόμενος)
Lit., having become headlong.
He burst asunder (ἐλάκησε)
Only here in New Testament. Lit., to crack, to burst with a noise. So Homer, of the bones cracking beneath a blow (“Iliad,” xiii., 616). Compare Aristophanes, “Clouds,” 410.