Fragments of Papias

Fragment 3

Source: This fragment is found in Œcumenius.

Judas walked about in this world a sad¹ example of impiety; for his body having swollen to such an extent that he could not pass where a chariot could pass easily, he was crushed by the chariot, so that his bowels gushed out.²

Notes

Literally, “great.”↩
Literally, “were emptied out.” Theophylact, after quoting this passage, adds other particulars, as if they were derived from Papias. He says that Judas’s eyes were so swollen that they could not see the light; that they were so sunk that they could not be seen, even by the optical instruments of physicians; and that the rest of his body was covered with runnings and worms. He further states, that he died in a solitary spot, which was left desolate until his time; and no one could pass the place without stopping up his nose with his hands.↩

Translation by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and Frederick Crombie: The Ante-Nicene Christian Library, vol. 1: The Apostolic Fathers (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1870).
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