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Mat 27:5. Ῥίψας, casting down) in the disquietude of his mind.[1174]-ἘΝ Τῷ ΝΑῷ, in the Temple) Judas was therefore in the Temple, with the chief priests and elders; and, in order to soothe his troubled conscience any how, attempted to give his money to the Sacred Treasury. The part of the Temple where this took place is unknown. The word ναὸς, which, strictly speaking, signifies a shrine, is employed here in a wider signification, for ἱερὸν, temple.-ἀπήγξατο, strangled himself with a noose) which is usually done by hanging. The same expression is used by the LXX. in 2Sa 17:23, concerning Ahitophel, whom some, however, suppose to have died of the quinsey as well as Iscariot. Raphelius has diligently established the interpretation of hanging from Polybius, etc.; see also Gnomon on Act 1:18.
[1174] “That very thing which had previously proved a bait to the sinner, subsequently causes him the deepest sorrow.”-B. G. V.