. New Testament hours. ellenistic Jews, by their sendingBarnabas to it, and in this sympathy Peter doubtlessshared. He, and Jewish-Christians generally, were, how-ever, forced, as they supposed, to take a new positionwhen the heathen-born element threatened to take fore-most place in the Church at large, after the success ofPaul in his mission to the Se utiles. The excitementthus roused led the stricter legalists in the Jerusalembrotherhood to insist that acceptance of Judaism wasnecessary, even for Gentile converts, as a condition ofsalvation; and in consequence of this the congregationat Ant
. New Testament hours. ellenistic Jews, by their sendingBarnabas to it, and in this sympathy Peter doubtlessshared. He, and Jewish-Christians generally, were, how-ever, forced, as they supposed, to take a new positionwhen the heathen-born element threatened to take fore-most place in the Church at large, after the success ofPaul in his mission to the Se utiles. The excitementthus roused led the stricter legalists in the Jerusalembrotherhood to insist that acceptance of Judaism wasnecessary, even for Gentile converts, as a condition ofsalvation; and in consequence of this the congregationat Antioch sought an official decision on so weighty amatter from the apostles and the mother - Church at Acts X. 44-47. ^ Acts xi. 19. 4 ST. PETEK Jerusalem.^ Influenced, no doubt, by his experience withCornelius at CaBsarea, Peter, with James, and their circle,met the representations of Paul, as has been related, witha friendly compromise, relieving heathen-born convertsfrom the yoke of necessary submission to Jewish rites. Gilded glass with heads of SS. Peter and Paul. The two apostles haveover them a single crown of victory, as if to show that in their deaththey were not divided. and observances, and thus leaving it open to the JewishChristian brethren to have a comparatively friendly in-tercourse with them. The wavering and weak attitudeof Peter towards the Syrian Church, by breaking off Acts XV. 4. ST. PETER 5 social intercourse with its members in their commonmeals, when some fierce Judaists had come down fromJerusalem to rekindle the Jewish controversy,^ in nodegree contradicts the earlier spirit related in the Acts,but simply proves that the constitutional impulsivenesswhich Peter had so often shown, down to his momentarydenial of his Master, still swayed him in any crisis. Hemust, moreover, have been alarmed lest such liberal viewsas he had upheld might destroy his influence in his ownspecial mission to his people; nor may his mind havebeen quite clear from the hereditary p
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