Now. Therefore. Verses Acts 18:19 form. parenthesis.
this man. this one, indeed.
purchased. caused to be purchased. Figure of speech Metonymy (of Effect). App-6. See App-161.
field. place, or holding. Greek. chorion. See note on Matthew 26:36.
reward. pay. Greek. misthos. Sin pays its wages (Romans 6:23).
iniquity. App-128. Compare 2 Peter 2:13, where the same Greek words are translated "wages of unrighteousness".
headlong. Greek. prenes. Only here.
burst asunder. Greek. lakeo. Only here. Dr. John Lightfoot (1602-75) writes: "The devil, immediately after Judas had cast back his money into the temple, caught him up into the air, strangled him, threw him headlong, and dashed him in pieces on the ground". He refers to Tobit 3.8, and adds, "That this was known to all the dwellers at Jerusalem, argues that it was no common and ordinary event, and must be something more than hanging himself, which was an accident not so very unusual in that nation. " Works, viii, pp 366, 367. This requires that Matthew 27:5 be read, "He was hanged, or strangled", instead of "hanged himself".
gushed out. were poured out.