Galatians 2:11

Peter In the Greek, -Cephas", the Apostle Peter. The difficulty of accepting this narrative in its obvious sense, led some in early times to suggest that not the Apostle, but one of the seventy disciples of the same name, is here referred to.

withstood him to the face Jerome's well-known solution of the difficulty a solution which approved itself to Chrysostom that the reproof was only apparent, was refuted by Augustine and ultimately abandoned by Jerome. It supposes a preconcerted plan for convincing, not Peter, but the Jewish converts, that the obligation of the ceremonial law had ceased, and leans for support on a mistranslation, -in appearance", for -to the face". The exact expression is found in the LXX. Deuteronomy 7:24; Deuteronomy 9:2; Judges 2:14. At Jerusalem St Paul's authority had been confirmed by the acquiescence of the Church; here it must be asserted in opposition to the temporising conduct of St Peter.

was to be blamed Better, as R.V. stood condemned, convicted of dissimulation by the very facts of the case.