Christian morals despised the transgressors so much that Dante imposed the greatest punishment on them in his imaginary hell, throwing them into the lowest pit of hell. This is where fratricide, traitors, those who abandon their guests and, at the very least, those who betrayed their benefactors are punished. Written by Irén Rab.
When the boys elected Boka as president again, Geréb was offended. It's true that two of the team voted for him (we know, the gitt-team ones), but the others stayed with the old leader, who had already proven himself. Therefore Geréb went out to the herb garden, looked for the enemy in red shirts and offered them his services. They were just looking for a place for themselves, so Géreb's betrayal came in handy.
When he fell down and even the enemy despised him because of his spinelessness, he cried and begged to be taken back to the Pál Street team. He even got his strict father involved in the case, he lied something there too, because he thought that the authority of an adult would protect him.
Every Hungarian knows the story of Lieutenant Hegedűs.
The lieutenant of the people of Kassia believed that the castle of Eger could not withstand the Turkish army. Timisoara, Lippa, and Szolnok had already fallen that year, and Eger – as Ahmed Pasha also said – is just a wild place inhabited by cowardly unbelieving sheep. What chance can only two thousand defenders have against the forty thousand Turkish army? It is true that they fought determinedly not only for their lives, but also for their country, but a relief army, the imperial mercenaries, could never be counted on. Lieutenant Hegedűs, although he swore to protect the castle, still thought it better to save his own skin and lead the Turks through the secret tunnel into the castle. He betrayed the castle, his comrades and his country.
When he was exposed, he begged for his life. He denied everything, that he only wanted to do good, to gain personal glory by ensnaring and slaughtering thousands of Turks by himself.
Geréb and Hegedűs are the product of the writer's imagination, but Brutus was a real historical person who stabbed his foster father. We wouldn't remember it if Julius Caesar's shock, "You too my son, Brutus?" does not become a host verb. Brutus, together with a group of senators, decided to assassinate Casear. The conspirators called themselves liberatores, who wanted to free Rome and the republic from its leader, whom they considered a tyrant. It didn't bother them that the people loved the emperor, considered him a benefactor, and Rome owed him a lot, because he was a great politician and an excellent general, and he conquered both Gaul and Britannia.
Although the "liberators" called the murder a justified tyrannical murder, in the eyes of the people and the army they were considered ordinary patricide.
When it comes to betrayal, we cannot leave out the greatest traitor of the Christian world, Judas Iscariot.
Judas, one of the twelve disciples of Jesus, who managed the money changer and the common coffers of the disciples, betrayed his master, delivered him into the hands of the soldiers and thus led him to death on the cross. His reward was thirty pieces of silver, which is what the reward for traitors has been called ever since: Judas money.
Christian morals despised the transgressors so much that Dante imposed the greatest punishment on them in his imaginary hell, throwing them into the lowest pit of hell. Here, fratricide, traitors, those who abandon their guests and, at the very least, those who betrayed their benefactors are punished: Judas, Brutus and his partner in treason, Cassius.
Lieutenant Geréb and Hegedűs were fictitious literary figures, through them the writers showed how betrayal works, why it occurs, what type of person the traitor is, what the driving forces were. In general, offense, envy, jealousy, hatred or weakness, cowardice and greed lead to betrayal, which - as we saw in the case of Brutus - can be well ideologized and accepted for a while as the victory of truth. For a while, because
sooner or later, but always, the truth comes to light, and the perpetrator receives a punishment worthy of his community and the justice system.
The boys noticed Dezső Geréb in the darkness of the herb garden, and Nemecsek also saw when he paid Janó. Gereb, like most traitors, eventually regretted his actions and begged for forgiveness. The children from Pál Street - although demoted to commoners - accepted their friend back. Castle captain Dobó did not pardon Hegedűs, and instead of the gold promised by the Turks, his reward was bitófa. When Judas realized the gravity of what he had done, he threw away the thirty pieces of silver and committed suicide. Brutus didn't take long either. When he realized that there was treachery behind the false slogan of liberation, and that Caesar created prosperity in Rome into civil war, he turned to murder, when he lost the battle against Caesar's followers, he ended his life with his own hand.
Generalizing the above examples, anyone who betrays, gives up, smears his own smaller or larger community, friends and neighbors, family or team, will be ostracized by the given community.
It was so in the past and it will always be so, because the traitor's reward can only be contempt.
Cover image: Judas Iscariot, the greatest traitor of the Christian world
Source: tuttad.com
