For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his office let another take.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
His bishoprick. The words were prophetically spoken in the Psalms, of the traitor Judas. (Witham)
Let their habitation. In some manuscript copies, in both Greek and Syriac, we read his. In the Psalms, the text was written against the Jews, the persecutors of Christ in general; but in this place, Peter applies it to Judas in particular. (Estius, in a different place.)
