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from God. Only Judas was silent more than was his custom: and he seemed disturbed and doubtful, as one uncertain of his path, and not knowing whether to go forward or backward. For when Nathaniel spake about our Master's authority to forgive sins, and how in the day of Redemption he would destroy the Evil Nature, then Judas at times heard him gladly, as if he earnestly desired that this should be true; but at another time he scoffed and said that "No forgiveness of sins would drive out Herod from Tiberias, nor the Romans from Jerusalem."
