Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Galatians 2:11
But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the (i) face, because he was to be blamed.
(i) Before all men.
But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the (i) face, because he was to be blamed.
(i) Before all men.
GALATIANS 2:11 Khfa/j Instead of the Aramaic name Khfa/j, the Textus Receptus, following D F G K L syrhtxt goth Marcion Marius Victorinus Chrysostom _al,_ substitutes the more familiar Pe,troj) Khfa/...
Verse 11. _WHEN PETER WAS COME TO ANTIOCH_] There has been a controversy whether πετρος, _Peter_, here should not be read κηφας, _Kephas_; and whether this _Kephas_ was not a _different person_ from...
BUT WHEN PETER WAS COME TO ANTIOCH - On the situation of Antioch, see the note at Acts 11:19. The design for which Paul introduces this statement here is evident. It is to show that he regarded himsel...
CHAPTER 2 _ 1. How Jerusalem had Confirmed the Gospel Paul Preached. (Galatians 2:1)_ 2. Peter's Failure; Paul's Rebuke and Testimony. (Galatians 2:11) Fourteen years passed by before he ever saw Je...
Excitement and consequent confusion rise higher still. In one sense, these verses record a climax; Paul is not merely Peter's equal he had exposed him once when Peter was plainly in the wrong. There i...
But when Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face because he stood condemned. Before some men arrived from James it was his habit to eat with the Gentiles. When they came he withdrew and separ...
THE MAN WHO REFUSED TO BE OVERAWED (Galatians 2:1-10)...
PETER. The texts read Kephas, as in Galatians 1:18, WAS COME. came. This must have followed the council of Acts 15, and preceded the dispute of Gal 15:36-40. WITHSTOOD. Greek. _anthistemi_. Occurs f...
We learn from Acts 15:22, foll. that when the Council broke up, certain members of the Apostolic company were sent to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas, to convey to the Churches of Syria and Cilicia the...
_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 disc...
10–2:21. ST PAUL’S DEFENCE OF HIMSELF 10–12. _My one object is to please God, and to serve Christ, who revealed to me the Gospel_ (Galatians 1:10) I say “now,” for my words show clearly that I care n...
ΚΗΦΑ͂Σ. אABC vulg. syrpesh. Harcl. marg. Πέτρος Text. Rec. with DGKL syrHarcl. text. 11. ὍΤΕ ΔῈ ἮΛΘΕΝ ΚΗΦΑ͂Σ ΕἸΣ ἈΝΤΙΌΧΕΙΑΝ. When was this? (1) If after the Council of Jerusalem it must have been duri...
11–14. _My independence of Cephas personally and of Barnabas_ (Galatians 2:11) Let me now show you both my independence in rebuking even Cephas and my insistence on the true character of the Gospel. C...
ΉΛΘΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G2064) приходить, ΆΝΤΈΣΤΗΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΝΊΣΤΗΜΙ (G436) выступать против, противостоять. ΚΑΤΕΓΝΩΣΜΈΝΟΣ _perf. pass. part. от_ ΚΑΤΑΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ (G2607) осуждать;...
PETER— Had St. Peter observed the law of Moses himself, St. Paul would not have blamed him for that. What he blamed him for was, his acting as if the Gentiles were obliged to live as did the Jews, in...
Maintained in Conflict with Peter at Antioch. Galatians 2:11-21 a) The hypocritical conduct of Peter and the remainder of Jewish Christians. Galatians 2:11-13 TEXT 2:11-13 (11) But when Cephas came...
_VERSE 11. BUT WHEN PETER WAS COME TO ANTIOCH, I WITHSTOOD HIM TO THE FACE, BECAUSE HE WAS TO BE BLAMED._ Paul goes on in his refutation of the false apostles by saying that in Antioch he withstood Pe...
But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. PETER - `Cephas' in the oldest manuscripts Paul's withstanding Peter proves the independence of Paul's...
2 Paul's method in Jerusalem seems to have taken into account the low spiritual state and prejudices of the Jewish believers. It would have been practically impossible to impress the whole company wit...
2:11 Peter (f-3) See Note, ch. 1.18. condemned. (g-18) Or rather 'because he was convicted of evil.'...
HIS AUTHORITY RECOGNISED BY THE APOSTLES AT JERUSALEM AND MAINTAINED IN HIS CONFLICT WITH ST. PETER 1-10. It was not until upon the occasion of a subsequent visit to Jerusalem fourteen years later th...
PETER] RV 'Cephas.' TO ANTIOCH] Those who hold that the previous passage (Galatians 2:1) refers to St. Paul's second visit to Jerusalem (Acts 11:29), of course place this visit of Peter to Antioch aft...
Antioch was an important city in the country called Syria. Acts 11:19-26 tells us that some *disciples had travelled to Antioch. They taught people the *good news about Jesus. Both *Jews and *Gentiles...
CHRIST HAS MADE US FREE GALATIANS _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 2 PAUL MET THE LEADERS IN JERUSALEM V1 Then I returned to Jerusalem 14 years later with Barnabas. Titus came with me too. V2 God showed m...
(11-14) The next phase in this question was at Antioch. On his coming thither Peter was guilty of a great inconsistency. He began by eating freely with the Gentile converts, but the arrival of a party...
WHEN PETER... — The true reading here is undoubtedly _Cephas._ The visit alluded to probably took place soon after the return of Paul and Barnabas, in the interval described in Acts 15:35, shortly bef...
CHAPTER 9 PAUL AND PETER AT ANTIOCH. Galatians 2:11 THE conference at Jerusalem issued in the formal recognition by the Primitive Church of Gentile Christianity, and of Paul's plenary Apostleship. A...
INTRIGUE AT ANTIOCH TO AFFIX THE STIGMA OF UNCLEANNESS ON UNCIRCUMCISED BRETHREN, COUNTENANCED BY PETER AND BARNABAS, BUT OPENLY REBUKED BY PAUL. The gathering of many Christians at Antioch after the...
LIVING BY FAITH IN CHRIST Galatians 2:11 Evidently Peter had gone back from the clear revelation of Acts 10:1, and from his former practice as stated in Galatians 2:12. The fear of the conservative p...
Having dealt with the divine origin of his teaching, the apostle now proceeded to show that his teaching was confirmed by the conference he had with the elders at Jerusalem fourteen years after his co...
But when Cephas, &c.[1] In most Greek copies, we read Petrus, both here and ver. 13. Nor are there any sufficient, nor even probable grounds to judge, that Cephas here mentioned was different from Pet...
(6) But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person:) for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me: (7)...
Galatians 1:1-24. We saw the second of Corinthians characterized by the most rapid transitions of feeling, by a deep and fervent sense of God's consolations, by a revulsion so much the more powerful i...
11._When Peter was come_. Whoever will carefully examine all the circumstances, will, I trust, agree with me in thinking, that this happened before the apostles had decided that the Gentiles should re...
He then speaks historically of his ministry, and of the question whether man had anything to do with it. His gospel was not according to man, for he had not received it from any man; he had not been t...
BUT WHEN PETER WAS COME TO ANTIOCH,.... The Alexandrian copy, and others, and the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Ethiopic versions, instead of "Peter", read "Cephas", who, by some ancient writers, is said...
_But_, &c. The argument here comes to the height: Paul reproves Peter himself; so far was he from receiving his doctrine from man, or from being inferior to the chief of the apostles; _when Peter was...
WITHSTOOD HIM; rebuked, and reproved him. WAS TO BE BLAMED; for his timidity, and time-serving spirit....
PAUL'S REPROOF OF PETER, AND THE LESSONS DRAWN THERE FROM. Peter's strange behavior at Antioch:...
BUT WHEN PETER WAS COME TO ANTIOCH, I WITHSTOOD HIM TO THE FACE, BECAUSE HE WAS TO BE BLAMED....
THE JERUSALEM CONFERENCE Not until fourteen years later was there any consultation between Paul and the apostles generally. On this occasion (of which Acts 15:1 gives the history) Paul went with Barna...
Peter is not immune to sin. He is not an "infallible Pope." Peter is guilty of "hypocrite in reverse." He was eating with Gentiles UNTIL some Jews came along. He pretended like he was not with the Ge...
11-14 Notwithstanding Peter's character, yet, when Paul saw him acting so as to hurt the truth of the gospel and the peace of the church, he was not afraid to reprove him. When he saw that Peter and...
Of this motion of Peter's to Antioch the Scripture saying nothing, hath left interpreters at liberty to guess variously as to the time; solne judging it was before, some after, the council held at Jer...
But when Cephas came to Antioch, I resisted him to the face, because he stood condemned. [There is no means of determining when this scene took place, but it was probably very soon after the council a...
Clementine Homily XVII If you were not opposed to me, you would not accuse me, and revile the truth proclaimed by me, in order that I may not be believed when I state what I myself have heard with my...
Galatians 2:11 Now G1161 when G3753 Peter G4074 come G2064 (G5627) to G1519 Antioch G490 withstood G436 ...
PAUL'S ARGUMENT WITH PETER WHEN PETER WAS INCONSISTENT (GALATIANS 2:11). The previous argument had a permanent importance for the church because it has laid down once for all what is basic to salvatio...
‘But when Cephas came to Antioch I resisted him to his face because he stood condemned. For before certain men came from James he ate with the Gentiles, but when they came he drew back and separated h...
_Excursus on the Relation of Paul to the Jewish Apostles._ Compare here my _History of the Apostolic Church_ (1853), pp. 245-260 and pp. 282 ff., 616 ff., and an able Excursus of Dr. Lightfoot on ‘St...
_The Collision of Paul with Peter at Antioch._ Paul continues to prove his independent Apostolic dignity, and shows that he asserted it even in open opposition to Peter at Antioch before the mother co...
_Excursus on the Controversy of Peter and Paul._ The collision of the two Apostles was of course only temporary. Peter showed weakness, Paul rebuked him, Peter submitted, and both continued to labor,...
Galatians 2:11. The scene here related is of great importance for the history of Apostolic Christianity, but has often been misunderstood and distorted both in the interest of orthodoxy and heresy. It...
I RESISTED HIM TO THE FACE (κατα προσωπον αυτω αντεστην). Second aorist active indicative (intransitive) of ανθιστημ. "I stood against him face to face." In Jerusalem Paul faced Peter as his equal...
Galatians 2:1. _Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also. And I went up by revelation,-_ He was sent by the church at Antioch, but the church...
CONTENTS: Paul's journey to Jerusalem and His contest for the truth. Justification by faith in Christ without works. CHARACTERS: Christ, Paul, Barnabas, Titus, Peter, James, Cephas, John. CONCLUSION:...
Galatians 2:1. _Then fourteen years after, I went up again to Jerusalem, and took Titus,_ his fellow-labourer. Luke adds, “and others also.” Acts 15:2. We may gather from this, that Luke was of the co...
I OPPOSED HIM IN PUBLIC. "I want to show you that I am equal in authority to all the other apostles and that I have the right to oppose one of the apostles of circumcision' when they are wrong!!!" Thi...
_I withstood him to the face._ PAUL AND PETER I. Character is growth. The most zealous is not always the most steadfast. Fires slumber within which circumstances may fan into a terrible flame. We bri...
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 2:11 Paul was not a people-pleaser (Galatians 1:10). His confrontation with Peter proves this....
CHAPTER 2 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. Paul declares that he had compared his Gospel with Peter, James, and John, and that it had been approved of them so completely that there was nothing to be added...
_I withstood him to the face._ Erasmus and others interpret this to mean in appearance, outwardly, feignedly, and by previous arrangement. The literal meaning is better: I openly resisted Peter, in or...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Galatians 2:11. WHEN PETER WAS COME TO ANTIOCH I WITHSTOOD HIM TO THE FACE.—The strongest proof of the independence of his apostleship in relation to the other apostl...
EXPOSITION In the preceding chapter, St. Paul has been concerned to make clear the position that neither the gospel which he preached nor the commission which he held was derived from the older apostl...
Then fourteen years later I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and I took Titus with me also (Galatians 2:1). So Paul no doubt had been ministering in Syria and Cilicia, the area around Tarsus,...
1 John 1:8; 1 Timothy 5:20; 2 Corinthians 11:21; 2 Corinthians 11:5;...
To the face [κ α τ α π ρ ο σ ω π ο ν]. As Acts 3:13. The meaning is expressed in the familiar phrase faced him down. It is, however, rarely as strong as this in N. T. Rather before the face, or in the...
But — The argument here comes to the height. Paul reproves Peter himself. So far was he from receiving his doctrine from man, or from being inferior to the chief of the apostles. When Peter — Afterwar...
Observe here, St. Peter's offense, and St. Paul's rebuke. St. Peter's offense, 1. was this, he declined from the doctrine taught by himself, concerning the abrogation of circumcision and the ceremonia...