<p>1:18 <i>Now this man obtained a field with the reward of his iniquity, and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his entrails gushed out</i>- See on Mt. 27:7. The way Judas &quot;burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out&quot; (Acts 1:18) may not be only a description of a bungled suicide. &quot;Bowels&rdquo;&nbsp;is elsewhere <em>always</em> used figuratively. One wonders whether it doesn't also describe how he fell down headlong, as Saul did when he knew his condemnation, and burst asunder within him, and poured out his heart in desperation, in the very pathetic little field he had bought for the price of the Son of God. In an utterly terrible figure, Ezekiel describes the condemnation of Israel as them being a woman trying to pluck off her own breasts (Ez. 23:34). This was and will be the extent of self-hatred and desperation. She will be alienated from her lovers of this world, and God's mind will be alienated from her (Ez. 23:17,18,22). The utter aloneness of the condemned is impossible to plumb.</p>