The Baseness of Treachery
John 6:70-71
Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?…


Of all the vices to which human nature is subject, treachery is the most infamous and detestable, being compounded of fraud, cowardice, and revenge. The greatest wrongs will not justify it, as it destroys those principles of mutual confidence and security by which only society can subsist. The Romans, a brave and generous people, disdained to practise it towards their declared enemies; Christianity teaches us to forgive injuries: but to resent them under the disguise of friendship and benevolence, argues a degeneracy at which common humanity and justice must blush.

(L. M. Stretch.).



Parallel Verses
KJV: Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?

WEB: Jesus answered them, "Didn't I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?"




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