[small voice in the wilderness]

Sorry, wrong. Peter spoke about the Gentiles being blessed by God without law keeping. Then Paul and Barnabas spoke about the miracles and wonders wrought among the Gentiles by them. They came forward to corroborate what Peter said about the Gentiles. Next came James, who was the president of the conference, and gave the final sentence of the conference, as is confirmed in verse 19. Peter was not chairman of the conference, otherwise he would have been given the final sentence.

Interesting way James addresses Peter in verse 14. He does not even address Peter by the name the Lord gave him at the time he was supposed to be made head of the church and vicar of Christ. He calls him Simeon, not Peter. Evidently, James did not understand the Lord to have given Peter this pre-eminence, so did not call him Peter, but Simeon.

[Deo volente]

You must not have read the excerpt in my post very carefully. I don’t know what else to say.

I was considering posting the enormous number of examples of the early Church Fathers expounding on the primacy of Peter, but it would a take a few hours to read through, and I don’t want to cause the moderators any grief. I’ll be posting some selections in a while.

It’s probably bad manners to create a post that would take several hours to read.

Stay tuned.

[Quix]

PRAISE GOD FOR YOUR EXCELLENT POSTS AND THEIR QUITE BIBLICAL TRUTHS AND ACCURATE POINTS.