From The Sadness of Christ:
Nevertheless though Joab by such coloured amity deceived Amasa, yet could not Judas so
deceive Christ, who at his coming kindly received him, heard him salute him, refused not to be kissed of
him, and as privy as he was of all his detestable treason, yet for a while so used he himself, as if he had
known nothing thereof at all.
And why did he this, trow ye? Was it for that he would teach us to counterfeit and dissimule, and
like crafty worldly folk to avoid one wily drift224 by another? No, no, he meant nothing so, but rather to
give us a lesson patiently and meekly to suffer all wrongs and false contrived trains,clxxxiii and not to
scorn and rage, not to covet to be revenged, not by evil language uttered again to ease our shrewd
stomachs, not to take any vain delight deceitfully to beguile our enemy, but against craft and falsehood
to use upright dealing, and by goodness to master evil, and with sweet and sour words, to labour by all
means possible, both in time and out of time, to make good men of bad, so that if any man be incurably
diseased, he have none occasion to impute it to any negligence on our behalf, but to the outrage of his own mischievous disease.
Saint Thomas, in all his travails, kept his sense of humor and never gave way to hating his persecutors.
