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Matthew · Chapter 26 · 24. The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.

[It had been good for him if he had not been born] It were better for him that he were not created. A very usual way of speaking in the Talmudists.