Ephrem the Syrian: Judas did not Partake of the Last Supper

  

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But when the hidden wolf
departed and went out
from among the
flock of the twelve.

 

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the true lamb stood up
and broke his body
for the sheep who had eaten
the paschal lamb.

 

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There he completed
the type that had hastened
from the midst
of Egypt until then. (Ephrem the Syrian, “Un the Unleavened Bread 14,” trans. J. Edward Walters, in St. Ephrem the Syrian: Songs for the Fast and Pascha [The Fathers of the Church 145; Washington, D.C. The Catholic University of America Press, 2022], 272)