He did not eat with the Gentiles] He would thus be defiled according to the Jewish Law. Withdrew] i.e. refused any longer to sit with the Gentile Christians at the love-feasts, and perhaps also in their houses. Peter had evidently forgotten the lesson of his vision at Joppa (Acts 10:9), and if this action of his was done after the decision of the council at Jerusalem (Acts 15:14), his conduct is placed in a still more unfavourable light.

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