And the other Jews joined likewise with him; so that Barnabas also was carried away with their hypocrisy.
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him. What was the nature of this dissimulation? Jerome, Chrysostom, and Å’cumenius say it was "economical," to prevent the Jews being scandalised; but Augustine, Anselm, and the Latins in general give a more satisfactory explanation in maintaining that it was an act of hypocrisy. The latter, too, have the Greek on their side, the literal meaning of which Isaiah , they acted hypocritically with him. They pretended to keep the law, which they knew to be abrogated. Barnabas followed them in pretending that there was a difference in meats, and that the Jews were to be preferred to the Gentiles, and Song of Solomon , though they did not consciously intend it, yet they made the Greeks to believe that the Old Law was necessary to salvation.
