“But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?”
When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all: 'If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?' — Paul's public rebuke ('apeipon') to Peter ('Kēphas') challenges the internal contradiction: Peter's own behavior already demonstrates that Torah observance is not necessary for believers, yet his withdrawal from Gentiles implies the opposite, betraying the gospel's truth ('alētheia').
Church Fathers on Galatians 2:14
“But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the Gospel.” Neither let this phrase disturb you, for in using it he does not condemn Peter, but so expresses himself for the benefit of those who were to be reformed by the reproof of Peter. “I said to Cephas before them all.” Observe his mode of correcting the others; he speaks “before them all,” that the hearers might be alarmed thereby. And this is what he says — “If you, being a Jew, livest as…
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