Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Galatians 2:21
I do not frustrate the grace of God. "Make void", in the Revised
Version. He would do so, if he went back to the Jewish law, and trusted
in it. If it gave righteousness, then the gospel was not needed, and
"Christ died in vain".
NOTE.--The account in this chapter of Paul's visit to Jerusalem, and
of his controversy with Peter, is utterly inconsistent with the Romish
doctrine of the supremacy of Peter. No Pope could or would allow a
bishop or cardinal to "rebuke him openly", as Paul did Peter. So, too,
the reference of the controversy in Acts 15, to "the apostles and
elders" (Acts 15:6), instead of to Peter, and the final judgment of
James, which was received, contradict the Vatican system. Indeed, the
doctrine of popedom is utterly inconsistent with the whole tenor of the
Acts, and the Pauline Epistles. This meeting at Antioch is the last
between Peter and Paul of which the New Testament gives record. Early
church tradition, however, reports that they met once in Rome, where
they were tried and condemned on the same day, and then parted, Peter
to be crucified on the hill of the Janiculum, and Paul, the Roman
citizen, to be beheaded at the Three Fountains on the Ostian Way. Could
we rely upon this tradition it would seem fitting that the two greatest
apostles, of the Circumcision and of the Uncircumcision, should lay
down their burdens together and go side by side to report their work to
their common Lord.
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