25 That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.



Ver. 25. Go to his own place] A place of his own providing; and that he had purchased with that wages of wickedness, Act_1:18. Bellarmine tells us of a desperate advocate in the court of Rome, who being exhorted on his death bed to make his peace with God, made this speech to him; Lord, I have a word to say to thee, not for myself, but for my wife and children, Ego enim propero ad inferos, neque est ut aliquid pro me agas; for I am hasting to hell, neither is there anything that I would beg of thee in my own behalf. And this he spake, saith Bellarmine (who was by the while), as boldly and without fear, as if he had been but to take his journey only to some near neighbouring village.