Walking straight, and living like a Jew (2:14)

Says Paul saw ὅτι οὐκ ὀρθοποδοῦσιν πρὸς τὴν ἀλήθειαν τοῦ εὐαγγελίου (hoti ouk orthopodousin pros tēn alētheian tou euangeliou). ὀρθοποδέω, “to walk straight”, is used metaphorically and, Abbott-Smith notes, not elsewhere; with πρός it measures conduct against the truth of the gospel, the BSB’s “walking in line with”.

Says He spoke τῷ Κηφᾷ ἔμπροσθεν πάντων. The condition Εἰ σὺ Ἰουδαῖος ὑπάρχων ἐθνικῶς καὶ οὐκ Ἰουδαϊκῶς ζῇς (Ei sy Ioudaios hyparchōn ethnikōs kai ouk Ioudaikōs zēs) sets two adverbs side by side: ἐθνικῶς, “in Gentile fashion”, and Ἰουδαϊκῶς, “in Jewish fashion”. The question is πῶς τὰ ἔθνη ἀναγκάζεις Ἰουδαΐζειν (pōs ta ethnē anankazeis Ioudaizein, “how do you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”), with Ἰουδαΐζω, “to conform to Jewish practice, to Judaize”.

Implies The charge, as the text gives it, is inconsistency with compulsion: one who lives in Gentile fashion presses Gentiles to conform to Jewish practice.

Uncertain The Greek has no quotation marks. The BSB closes the quotation at the end of 2:14; where Paul’s words to Cephas end (2:14–21) is not marked. No lean is taken here.