This may have been said either to Judas, or to Satan, either to provoke the enemy to the combat, or the traitor to do his part in bringing on that dispensation, which was to save the world; which He wished not to be delayed any longer, but to be as soon as possible matured.
Reproduced in full. Translation: Oxford 1841 (Newman), public domain (Public domain).
Also cites: t. xxxii. 15.