The Cephas Manuscript

The noted 19th c. Catholic apologist, Paul Schanz, in his " Christian Apology ", vol. III, page , echoed other prominent Catholic writers in observing that:. This latter explanation was that of St. Jerome, the greatest biblical scholar of his time, and who disputed St. Augustine's interpretation which involved St.

Peter for his humility in accepting the sharp rebuke of his fellow-Apostle. It is fascinating to see how the Fathers of the Church who accepted the identity of Peter and Cephas came to contradictory explanations of the alleged dispute between Peter and Paul. Though they bent every effort not to disparage Peter's Primacy among the Apostles, there is no question that the Galatians' incident has always been seized upon by enemies of the Faith to discount Peter's supremacy of authority in the Apostolic College.

That Peter and the Cephas of Antioch and Corinth are two different personages needs to be seriously re-examined and not be testily dismissed as a "cockeyed theory" by a recent contributor to a "traditionalist" publication which only too often takes upon itself the role of a Paul castigating the present successor of Peter.

Paul's letters Galatians and I Corinthians. The sole exception is in St. It should be observed that the name "Cephas" which St. Paul uses 4 times in I Corinthians and 4 3? A Greek reader — in the absence of translation — would have no reason to think that "Cephas" means "Petros" — which is, of course, the Greek translation of Kepa. We see in St. John's Gospel, therefore, that the meaning of the title or office which Our Lord conferred on Simon had to be translated if it were to retain its significance.

Thus, if a person's given name in Aramaic were Kepa it would be transliterated into "Cephas" for Greek-speaking Christians, — which is just what we find in St.

But, if the title of his office, in Aramaic, were Kepa so that it is the title's meaning which is important that title must be translated to "Petros", just what we find in St. The upshot of all the above is that in Gal. Similarly, there is reason to believe that in Gal. It is not surprising that some of the Fathers and later commentators were misled in identifying two distinct personages. Letters to a Greek Orthodox on the Unity of the Church.

He can be reached at: Were the Apostle Peter and Cephas of Antioch the same person? The following are the Scripture texts which refer to Cephas: But Jesus looking upon him, said, 'Thou art Simon, the son of John: But when Cephas came to Antioch, I withstood him to his face, because he was deserving of blame. For before certain persons came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles, but when they came, he began to withdraw and to separate himself, fearing the circumcised.

And the rest of the Jews dissembled along with him, so that Barnabas also was led away by them into that dissimulation. But when I saw that they were not walking uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all: Now this is what I mean: Has Christ been divided up? Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. This collection reveals the history of English common law and Empire law in a vastly changing world of British expansion.

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