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FROM BOOK IV. — In Theophylact on the Acts of the Apostles.
A For Judas did not die by hanging, but survived, being taken down before he suffocated. And Papias, the disciple of John, relates this more clearly in the fourth book of his Exposition of the Oracles of the Lord, saying as follows: "Judas walked about in this world as a great example of impiety, his flesh so swollen that, where a carriage can pass easily, he could not; no, not even the mass of his head alone. For they say that his eyelids were so swollen that he could not see the light at all, and his eyes could not be seen, even by a physician with a magnifying instrument, so deep were they from the outer surface. His private parts were more loathsome and larger than any deformity, B through which alone, indeed, his flowing matter and worms were discharged from his whole body, to his shame. After many torments and punishments, they say he died on his own land, and that because of this, the place is to this day deserted and uninhabited by those who live and linger by that road; and that to this day no one can pass by that place without blocking his nose with his hands; such a discharge poured forth from his flesh onto the ground."
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From Codex 2397 of the Bodleian Library, written in the year 1302 and 1303 in the Abbey of Osney near Oxford, fol. 286, p. 2, in Grabe, Spicilegium, Vol. II, p. 34.
C And John were children of the sister of the Lord's mother. Mary, the mother of James the Less and of Joseph, the wife of Alphaeus, was the sister of Mary the Mother of the Lord, whom John calls [the wife] of Cleophas, either from her father, or from the family of her kin, or for some other cause. Mary Salome is so named either from her husband or from her town: some say she is the same as [the wife] of Cleophas, because she had two husbands.
S. QUADRATUS, BISHOP OF ATHENS
(GALLAND., Biblioth. vet. Patr., I, Proleg. p. LXXII.)
I. St. Quadratus, disciple of the apostles, illustrious by the gift of prophecy, bishop of Athens. II. He presented an apologetic work in defense of the Christian religion to the Emperor Hadrian, held in high esteem; of which one fragment survives. III. This Apology was offered in the year 126, when the author was already of advanced age; who, however, does not appear to be distinct from Quadratus, bishop of Athens.