For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a transgressor.
18. For if I build again. The reply consists of two parts. This is the first part, and informs us that the supposition now made is at variance with his whole doctrine, since he had preached the faith of Christ in such a manner as to connect with it the ruin and destruction of sin.
Verse 18. For if I build again the things which I destroyed. Paul here uses the first person; but he evidently intends it as a general proposition, and means that if any one does it he becomes a transgressor. The sense is, that if a man, having removed or destroyed that which was evil, again introduces it or establishes it, he does wrong, and is...
Peter came to Antioch eating freely with Gentile believers, as the Spirit had taught him; but when Jewish Christians arrived, he withdrew, and this hypocrisy I had to oppose to his face. His fault proved plainly that he was not superior to me, and so the papacy's claim to his infallibility falls to pieces.
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Commenting on Galatians 2:11-21