Judas then saw the cruel
judgment, and brought the money which he had taken with guile, very angry, to
the high priests, and hanged himself at once with a noose, and justly throttled
the cursed throat which a little before had betrayed the Lord. The Jews would
not put the money in their coffers, as if they had not been deceitful, but
bought a field for burying foreigners, so that there might be fulfilled the
words of the prophet who had prophesied this about the money. The impious
traitor sadly repented his wicked deeds with his own death. He sinned against
Christ, and even more against himself, because a suicide suffers eternally.
(Aelfric, “Palm Sunday,” in The Old English Catholic Homilies: The Second
Series [trans. Roy M. Liuzza; Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library 93; Cambridge,
Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2026], 315, emphasis in bold added)
