This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bore what was put therein.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Judas did not then begin to be wicked: he followed Christ, not in heart, but in body only. This our Master tolerated, to give us a lesson to tolerate the bad, rather than divide the body. (St. Augustine, in Joan. tract. 50.)
