Acts 1:25 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

That he might go to his own place.— That is, to the place and state of lost souls. It was a maxim among the Jews, "He who betrayeth an Israelite, shall have no part in the world to come." The term his own place, or his due or appointed place, was very frequently used by the primitive Christians, who meant thereby to express a man's going presently after death into his proper place and state of happiness or misery. In the epistle ascribed to Barnabas, it is said, that good men go to the place appointed for them; and Clemens Romanus observes, that St. Peter suffered martyrdom, and went into the place of glory which was due to him, that is, his own, through the Blood of Christ. Ignatius says, "all things have an end; death and life are set before us, and every one must go unto his own place." Compare with this, what our Lord himself had said of Judas, Matthew 26:24. John 6:70-71; John 17:12. The word rendered part is κληρον, which signifies a lot, and may refer to the lots mentioned in the next verse.