Acts 1:25

that he may take part The best MSS. read that he may take the place, &c. The Rec. Texthas the same words here and in Acts 1:17, as is represented in the A. V. A scribe remembering the former would easily assimilate the two places, and as the Greek word in Acts 1:17 signifies lot, he might perceive a fitness in its use in this part of the narrative.

from which Judas by transgression fell Better, from which Judas fell away. The Gk. has only a verb which literally = transgressed.

that he might go to his own place He had been chosen into one place by Jesus, but had made another choice for himself, which had ended in destruction. That "his own place" when thus used was, to the Jewish mind, an equivalent for Gehenna = the place of torment, may be seen from the Baal Haturimon Numbers 24:25, where it is said "Balaam went to his own place, i.e. to Gehenna." A like expression is found concerning Job's friends, Midrash Rabbahon Ecclesiastes 7:1.