CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

Hence 3. The particle [Greek or Hebrew] that is taken two ways in Scripture, sometimes denoting a cause, Sometimes an Event only, [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew], as the Learned instance in many places; Now here they make it to signify the Event only, that the sense amounts to thus much, when Judas had betrayed his Master, and perished in that wickedness, then were those places of Scripture fulfilled; The Scriptures did not force or compel him, but when he had accomplished his impieties, then was the Scripture fulfilled; Indeed Tolet makes it to be causal, and Maldonate causal, apparently but not really; Jansenius grants it may be causal, not in respect of Judas his sin but the end why God permitted all this.

Hence 3. The particle 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 that is taken two waies in Scripture, sometimes denoting a cause, Sometimes an Event only, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 and 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, as the Learned instance in many places; Now here they make it to signifie the Event only, that the sence amounts to thus much, when Judas had betraied his Master, and perished in that wickednesse, then were those places of Scripture fulfilled; The Scriptures did not force or compell him, but when he had accomplished his impieties, then was the Scripture fullfilled; Indeed Tolet makes it to be causall, and Maldonate causall, apparently but not really; Jansenius grants it may be causall, not in respect of Judas his sinne but the end why God permitted all this.

Lastly, Though Gods prevision and the Scriptures prediction be not simply the cause of any thing future, yet because Gods prevision is never without his pre-ordination, and that though wicked men are justly damned for their sins, yet all these things fall not out without some antecedent Decrees of God; Therefore we must understand this place as taking in Judas his Reprobation also.