[don-o]

If you are interested in considering something maybe out of your comfort zone - as in....

To help us understand, we can look at an Old testament type prefiguring the Apostles in their role as “pillars”. In the Temple of Solomon there were two prominent bronze pillars. These pillars are given names in Scripture. The first pillar is Jachin, which means “the Lord will establish” . This notion of establishing can be linked to our Lord telling Peter: “You are Peter and on this stone I will build my church.” The second pillar is called Boaz, and here we have an even more surprising relationship, because although the word Boaz has an obscure etymology, it refers to the ancestor of David known mostly for marrying Ruth, a gentile woman who converted. Boaz therefore strongly prefigures Paul as the “apostle to the gentiles”. Most importantly, just as with Peter and Paul, we can see in the two pillars of the first Temple this primordial movement towards and away from the center, analogous to the movement of the nous.

http://www.orthodoxartsjournal.org/st-peter-on-the-right-st-paul-on-the-left/

[MHGinTN]

Okay, I read it. I 'nous' what it's about. But I still agree with smvoice that Peter and the ekklesia in Jerusalem was teaching The Cross + Moses, until the great council where James and Peter decided the matter to go forward among the gentiles without the burden of the law, because they came to realize that it is by Grace that we are saved and by Grace we are kept unto that day of Redemption. Paul is very clear on what the law is meant to do and what it results in.

Peter's visit to the house of Cornelius displays Peter's faithfulness to the leadership of God's Spirit. But typical of Peter, even as he left that house he probably wondered how the law was going to be attached to such believers.

Peter was somewhat dense, prone to plodding in ruts, until God's Spirit shook his cage and set him straight. And had to do it on several occasions, too! Thanks be to God that it is upon the same profession that Peter made under influence of the Holy Spirit that we are individually Saved, born again from above.

Peter is a man after my heart since I believe I have oodles of the same failing, of a density in mind that must be shaken occasionally, to straighten me out and slap my lazy bottom to go forward. Of Peter, I can feel an affinity. With Paul I am in awe of his spiritual gifts.

Perhaps that's why I could not become a Catholic, my commonness I feel relates more to Peter the man than to an institutional leader. We shall soon find out where we are missing the details, eh? The departing approaches ...