“We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,”
We who are Jews by birth and not sinful Gentiles — this parenthetical aside ('oi physei Ioudaioi') acknowledges the ethnic reality: Jews and Gentiles have distinct origins, but this distinction is about to be radically relativized by the cross.
Church Fathers on Galatians 2:15
“We being Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles.” These words are hortatory, but are couched in the form of a reproof, on account of those Jews. So elsewhere, under cover of one meaning he conveys another; as where he says in his Epistle to the Romans, “But now I go unto Jerusalem, ministering unto the saints.” Romans 15:25 Here his object was not simply to inform them of the motive of his journey to Jerusalem, but to excite them to emulation in the giving of alms.…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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