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Judas Iscariot
Judas
also: Иуда, иудино окаянство
The apostle who betrayed Jesus (Matthew 26); Savely reaches for his name adjectivally ('Judas-like wickedness') as the worst term of moral condemnation available to him when denouncing his wife as a witch.
Reading notes
- The Man in a Case §42 Judas
The apostle who betrayed Jesus; Kovalenko spits out the name as the worst insult he can find for Belikov, the gymnasium's habitual informer.
- The Witch §37 О, иудино окаянство!
Savely invokes Judas Iscariot's name as a byword for betrayal and wickedness ('Judas-like wickedness'), reaching past ordinary cursing for the worst treachery Christian tradition supplies.