10. Listen also for the thirty pieces of
silver. And I will say to them, If it be good in your sight,
give me my price, or refuse Zech. xi. 12., and the
rest. One price is owing to Me from you for My healing the blind
and lame, and I receive another; for thanksgiving, dishonour, and for
worship, insult. Seest thou how the Scripture foresaw these
things? And they weighed for My price thirty pieces of
silver Ib.. How exact
the prophecy! how great and unerring the wisdom of the Holy
Ghost! For he said, not ten, nor twenty, but thirty, exactly as
many as there were. Tell also what becomes of this price, O
Prophet! Does he who received it keep it? or does he give it
back? and after he has given it back, what becomes of it? The
Prophet says then, And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast
them into the house of the Lord, into the foundry Ib. xi.
13.. Compare the Gospel with the
Prophecy: Judas, it says, repented himself, and cast
down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed Matt. xxvii. 3, 5..