Many times God allows various people to embitter us without our fault, in order to forgive some ''veresedia'' (debts sins) that we owed, and thus God gives us the opportunity to forgive ourselves.
It is God's economy that certain people are there and embitter us...
When a doctor predicts the death of a patient, is the doctor responsible for the death and the patient will die, because the doctor predicts it or because the patient, being sick, has no hope of life and will die?
Or when someone foresees and predicts, for example, the crime of a person, is the one who foresees responsible or the one who will commit the crime responsible? Of course, the criminal is responsible and not the one who predicts.
God did exactly the same in the case of Judas.
He foretold the betrayal of Judas, because as God he foretold it and Judas was solely responsible for the betrayal of Christ.
The Prophecy, i.e. of God, depends on the betrayal of Judas and not the betrayal of Judas, on the Prophecy of God.
The Holy Chrysostom characteristically says: The betrayal of Judas was not prophesied so that Judas would become a traitor, but because he was about to become a traitor, his betrayal was prophesied.
Demetrios Panagopoulos the Preacher +
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