By golly....Claud! If anyone is to put me in my place I would hope it be you. I know you to be a fine example of virtue and my respect for you overflows all boundaries. But....alas, other priorities have risen and need my attention. Hopefully we can continue later as you are one of my favorite adversaries. Till then..........
Please explain [Galatians 2:7-8].
LOL....well apologies if I was brusque. I said what I did from personal experience...having been carried away in an argument and then realizing *DOH!* what I was saying didn’t hold water. I’m learning to talk in terms of “suggests” and “indicates” rather than “proves”. :)
Take your time with what you have to do...I am falling behind in work myself.
But just to respond to Gal. 2:7-8, I don’t really think that undermines Peter in Rome. There were plenty of the circumcised in Rome at this time, as is indicated by Suetonius’s statement that Claudius expelled the Jews from Rome in A.D. 49. They were being instigated “by one Chrestus”—I take that to mean there were contentions within Roman Jewry over the Christ. Perhaps Peter moved within a fairly narrow group of Roman Jewry and it took Paul to really expand the Church in Rome to Gentiles as well.
Just speculation on my part—I’ll have to dig a little deeper into the sources.