--- [log in to unmask] wrote: > >One more thing - the notion of Christ
and Judas as twinsor necessary
> to each
> other was a commonplace and is brilliantly imaged in the scene of the
> Betrayal
> at Pamplona. Christ's and Judas' faces are so close together, their
> mouths seem
> to form but one.
Interestingly, the NT word used to describe Judas' action, kataphileo,
means to kiss fervently or affectionately. It is not the simple verb
to kiss. It may be literary artifice on the part of the evangelists,
or it may be that Judas gave Jesus, not a simple peck on the cheek, but
a long, lingering, apparently affectionate kiss, - perhaps an
exaggerated gesture, of some length, was necessary in the darkness, to
make sure there was no mistake. However the intensity of the gesture
is not really rendered in the Vulgate - et osculatus est eum.
Oriens.
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