And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
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Leo of Rome
AD 461
Serm., 52, 5: When he says, “I have sinned, in that I have betrayed innocent blood,” he persists in his wicked treachery, seeing that amid the last struggles of death he believed not Jesus to be the Son of God, but merely manof our rank; for had he not thus denied His omnipotence, he would have obtained His mercy.
