to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.

'TO HIS OWN PLACE'-i.e.. place of destruction. 'It is the place which was peculiarly his, as befitting his awful sin--Gehenna.' (Vincent p. 447) Carefully note that the text says that Judas "fell away". He had freewill (Hebrews 3:12).

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