But of them who seemed to be some thing, (what they were some time, it is nothing to me, God accepteth not the person of man,) for to me they that seemed to be some thing added nothing.
John of Damascus
He says 'those who thought of themselves to be' instead of 'those who were.' As he said about himself, I think that I too have the Spirit of God. The sense is this: I do not know, he says, nor do I contest about, the reason, which made those around Peter condescend to circumcision; they know, for they shall have to give an account to God. As for me I know one thing, that when I came, they no longer said anything about the preaching. He was right in saying, "whatever they might be," for they were not anything, so that he might offer the condescension to the beginning of his preaching and to them.
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.