Judas Iscariot
(᾽Ιούδας ὁ ᾽Ισκαριώτης), the apostle who betrayed Christ.Byz. tradition dealt with him primarily in commentaries on Acts. He came to represent the epitome of treachery and of monetary greed; his suicide by hanging, accompanied by bloating limbs and the gushing out of his bowels, became the typical death of the sinner. Orthodox authors compared the end of ... ...
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