John 12:5. Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence and given to the poor? Care for the poor is the mask which the murmuring protest of Judas wears. Thus sin, that it may the better extinguish the virtue by which at the moment it is offended, is wont to pay reverence to some other virtue, some virtue which may be thought of without trouble, because it is not really present and in question. But the Evangelist in recording the words strips off the mask.

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