Bible. New Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Christianity -- Origin; Paul, the Apostle, Saint
_Interview the Fourth.--Peter at Antioch.--Deputies to Antioch from
Jerusalem, Judas and Silas.--Paul disagrees with Peter and
Barnabas, quits Antioch, and on a Missionary Excursion takes with
him Silas. What concerns the Partition Treaty, down to this Period,
reviewed.--Peter and the Apostles justified._
SECTION 1.
PAUL'S ACCOUNT OF THIS INTERVIEW QUOTED.--ACTS ACCOUNT OF WHAT FOLLOWED
UPON IT.
We now come to the last of the four different and more or less distant
occasions on which a personal intercourse, in some way or other, is
recorded as having had place, between Paul on the one part, and the
Apostles or some of them on the other, antecedently to that, on which
Paul's history, so far as any tolerably clear, distinct, and material,
information has descended to us, closes. Of this interview, the scene
lies at Antioch: Peter having, for some consideration no otherwise to be
looked for than by conjecture, been led to pay a visit, to that place of
Paul's _then_ habitual abode, after, and, as seems probable, in
consequence of, Paul's third recorded visit to Jerusalem--his
_Deputation Visit_.
Let us now cast an eye on the documents. Respecting Paul's disagreement
with Peter, the only one we have, is that which has been furnished us
by Paul himself. It consists of the following passage in his Epistle to
his Galatians.
GALATIANS 2:11 to 16.
But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face,
because he was to be blamed.--For before that certain came from
James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he
withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the
circumcision.--And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him;
insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their
dissimulation.--But when I saw that they walked not uprightly
according to the truth of the Gospel, I said unto Peter before
_them_ all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of
Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles
to live as do the Jews?--We _who are_ Jews by nature and not
sinners of the Gentiles,--knowing that a man is not justified by
the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we
have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the
faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works
of the law shall no flesh be justified.
Let us now see the account, given in the Acts, of what passed in
Antioch, in relation to Paul, Barnabas and Silas,--during a period,
which seems to be either the same, or one in contiguity with it,
probably antecedent to it.
ACTS 15:35 to 41.
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