Editing Papias of Hierapolis (section)

===Death of Judas===

According to a [[scholium]] attributed to [[Apollinaris of Laodicea]], Papias also related a tale on the grotesque fate of [[Judas Iscariot]]:<ref>{{harvp|Holmes|2006|p=316 (Fragment 18)}} Cf. [http://www.chronicon.net/index.php/papias#Apollinarius Schmidt's translation] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140910155741/http://www.chronicon.net/index.php/papias |date=2014-09-10 }}, {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20151116063403/http://www.textexcavation.com/papias.html#apollinarius Smith's translation]}}.</ref>

{{blockquote|Judas did not die by hanging<ref>{{bibleverse|Matt|27:5}}.</ref> but lived on, having been cut down before he choked to death. Indeed, the Acts of the Apostles makes this clear: "Falling headlong he burst open in the middle and his intestines spilled out."<ref>{{bibleverse|Acts|1:18}}.</ref> Papias, the disciple of John, recounts this more clearly in the fourth book of the ''Exposition of the Sayings of the Lord'', as follows:

"Judas was a terrible, walking example of ungodliness in this world, his flesh so bloated that he was not able to pass through a place where a wagon passes easily, not even his bloated head by itself. For his eyelids, they say, were so swollen that he could not see the light at all, and his eyes could not be seen, even by a doctor using an optical instrument, so far had they sunk below the outer surface. His genitals appeared more loathsome and larger than anyone else's, and when he relieved himself there passed through it pus and worms from every part of his body, much to his shame. After much agony and punishment, they say, he finally died in his own place, and because of the stench the area is deserted and uninhabitable even now; in fact, to this day one cannot pass that place without holding one's nose, so great was the discharge from his body, and so far did it spread over the ground."}}