Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1882 — Origin of a Phrase. [ARTICLE]

Origin of a Phrase.

To the philological mind a whole history is oftentimes suggested by the simplest, most commonplace expression. Here, for instance, is an example, treated synthetically; When the chief priests and Pharisees were at a loss how to proceed some one of them, with a keen knowledge of Immiin nature, suggested, “Buy

Judas ! ” This simple phrase from that time forth became a prominent landmark in the domain of language, and even to this day no exclamation is more common than this same “By Judas!” — Boston Transcript.