Which Cephas did Paul confront? :)

[wifrost]

Greetings all,

I was just reading from Eusubius’ “Church History,” and in ch. 12 called “the disciples of our Saviour” he is talking about “the seventy” we read about in the New Testament and makes this remark about Cephas:

This is the account of Clement in the fifth book of his Hypotyposes, in which he also says that Cephas was one of the seventy disciples, a man who bore the same name as the apostle Peter, and the one concerning whom Paul says, “When Cephas came to Antioch I withstood him to his face.”206

It is interesting as I have yet to have seen this used on this website when the topic of “Peter’s Infallaiblity/Authority” has come into question. Any thoughts on this?

Peace and God Bless

 

[vern_humphrey]

Greetings all,

I was just reading from Eusubius’ “Church History,” and in ch. 12 called “the disciples of our Saviour” he is talking about “the seventy” we read about in the New Testament and makes this remark about Cephas:

This is the account of Clement in the fifth book of his Hypotyposes, in which he also says that Cephas was one of the seventy disciples, a man who bore the same name as the apostle Peter, and the one concerning whom Paul says, “When Cephas came to Antioch I withstood him to his face.”206

It is interesting as I have yet to have seen this used on this website when the topic of “Peter’s Infallaiblity/Authority” has come into question. Any thoughts on this?

Peace and God Bless

There is no need to fear this passage – infallibility relates to matters of faith and morals, not to making bad choiices in social matters. Cephas, whoever he was, was reluctant to eat with Gentiles – not arguing that it would be sinful to do so.

 

[Catholic_Dude]

Off the top of my head Im pretty sure it was Simon-Peter/Cephas, in Gal 1 Paul talks about how he went down to visit the Apostles and only saw Simon-Peter/Cephas.

 

[whowantsumadebo]

Eusebius may have been trying to save Peter’s face so-to-speak. or was simply mistaken.
Nobody in history had the name “Rock” before Jesus came up with it.

 

[vern_humphrey]

Eusebius may have been trying to save Peter’s face so-to-speak. or was simply mistaken.
Nobody in history had the name “Rock” before Jesus came up with it.

That may or may not be correct. Nicknames were quite common in ancient times (for example, Ceasar means "Hairy.) So there might well have been other people nicknamed “Rock.”

But this particular Rock is definitely Simon Bar Jonah.