avoid another; fearing to agree with the blasphemy of Porphyry, you fall into the snare of Ebion by declaring that the Law is to be observed by Jewish converts. Then, because you understand how dangerous your statement is, you again try to tone it down with superfluous words: ‘Without their being necessary for salvation, as the Jews thought they should be observed, or by a deceitful pretense, which he rebuked in Peter.’ So, then, Peter pretended to keep the Law, but that reprover of Peter boldly