All the signs are that it will be bitter: yesterday, a pamphlet was circulated in Milan denouncing Maroni as a Judas because of his criticism of Bossi before the latter's resignation.
Describing how some of their mutual friends had previously suggested "ever so gently" that he would "come to regret" writing about the Prime Minister's younger years, Mr Delingpole said that he had been called a "Judas" in the wake of the revelations surrounding Mr Cameron.
"What hurt them was their sense of entitlement that the presidency was theirs and all the acolytes should fall in line," said Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico, a former Clinton cabinet officer who endorsed Mr. Obama only to be branded a Judas by James Carville, the architect of Mr. Clinton's original rise to power.
(Also vengeful fire: the burning of a Judas effigy, often part of the celebration, is a custom unlikely to be hindered by recent debates about his innocence).
"It was very much a Judas Priest kind of affair; Jeff even had the blonde hair, the Flying V guitar and the moustache," remembers Lant.
The road to his office was often blocked by protesters, who called him a "Judas" and accused him of "selling the whole of Georgia".
Yet Satan is never master of our wills: if he enters the soul of a Judas Iscariot, it is because the thought that he plants there has received assent and ripened into a sinful disposition (CommJohn 32.281 285; see further Layton 2004: 129 131).
(In 1996 Judas Priest recruited the singer of a Judas Priest tribute band temporarily to replace its lead vocalist, Rob Halford).
Siodmak's world is an unredeemably fallen one, the world of a Judas and a Mary Magdalene with no Savior and no miracles to hope for.
He describes Koen as a "Judas leech-sucking vermin of half-brother", right before Harry rips off Koen's petulant middle finger.
Traditional believers would say that Jesus was the subject of a Judas conspiracy, but he was certainly not commercially accepted.
