"Even my best friend, he trusted, who ate with me, has turned against me" (Psalm 41:9).
Although it is hard to endure him slights to outsiders, the harder it is like when they come to us from friends and relatives.
tells the fable about lumberjacks struck the hatchet in a pine tree, and did so easily with the wedges that had made of wood of the tree itself. Then the pine murmured
- Do not hate me as the ax cuts like the wedges that were born to me.
Betrayal, which is an offense against the loyalty owed, is one of the most heinous sins of mankind, and the character that best personified is Judas.
There was a time that Judas was a loyal friend. Evidenced by the fact that he was a disciple of Jesus. He began to follow the Master by choice. We are not told as he called Jesus. But one day the two met face to face, they looked at each other in the eye. Maybe Judas was among a crowd and heard talk about this strange prophet: "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself" (Matthew 16:24). The conditions seemed hard for someone like Judas, whom he loved very much money. But despite that, Judas left his old life to become a disciple.
Despite its privileges, Judas perpetrated the most heinous crime in history. His malevolent strategy had all the trappings of a modern crime: Make a plan, a detailed study of the steps, pacta delivery with priests for money, then their accomplices remain a victim in all his steps, then in the shadows of the night, no show of force, intimidation and threat. And, having given the track that was a kiss on the cheek, is the arrest of the victim, then the inhuman flogging and eventual death of the innocent.
There are many things that look like an innocent flower with a serpent lurking beneath. There are men who seem to be good friends but eventually let us down and those are the most devastating blows because there is no worse enemy than a friend's face brings. It is easy to dodge the spear but not the hidden dagger. The Spirit of Christ had spoken of this disillusionment through a prophet:
"I am not faced an enemy which would have supported, and rose up against me that I hated, because I could hide from him, but you, man, apparently an intimate of mine, my guide and my family, that communicate sweet counsel together, and we were in friendship in the house of God "(Psalm 55).
Treason is the lowest in fact and contemptible in the world. And the betrayal of Judas, his black ingratitude, is unparalleled in the history of humankind. Therefore, Dante, in his "Divine Comedy" is presented as being more monstrous it is possible to imagine.
In the last circle of hell, Dante describes in fine imagination a frozen ice lake, whose waters are the tears of mankind, there is Satan, a monster with three heads, with bat wings. In each of his three mouths holding a traitor Burt and Cassius, who plotted the assassination of Julius Caesar, as traitors against constituted States. And Judas, a traitor against the son of God, is the largest of the three. Appears in the mouth of the center, red with rage, because his sin was against love, and the little love he once had now been turned into hatred.
Judas betrayed Jesus with a kiss. A dagger in his hand would not have been more cruel than that kiss hypocrite. This is what makes most terrible sin, that took advantage of the knowledge of the site where Jesus used meet with his disciples to pray. It is deplorable that someone betrayed the Lord, but more abominable is that by a man who knows him well and has received his blessings.
Judas was not ultimately to Jesus for goal, but only to himself, his honor, his own benefit, money. Could say on his behalf that although he knew what it meant to betray Jesus into the hands of the main religious conscience hardened metallic not allowed him to understand the full extent of his infamous action, just got it when it had passed the burning of contemplation of the shiny coins, and heard the sentence of the Sanhedrin pronounced against his master. Then his conscience awoke and tried to right the wrong done, but it was too late. Desperate remorse, and doubt that God could forgive him, ended his life. Who lives selfishly, his death will leave the greatest benefit to mankind!
The story of Judas is terribly shocking. However, many men today are reliving so unspeakable drama ...
* Ps. Diego Arbelaez
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