18 I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.



Ver. 18. I know whom I have chosen] Judas he had not chosen, but to the apostleship only. All this Judas hears, and is not moved at it; such a stupefying sin is hypocrisy. The Germans have a proverb, Quem Deus excaecaturus est, huic primum oculos claudit. (Bucholcer.) Whom God intends to destroy, of these he first blinds their eyes. And the Latins say, Deus quem destruit, dementat, God besots the man whom he means to destroy.