Galatians 2: 14: “But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the Gospel, I said to Peter in the presence of all, ‘If you, being a Jew, live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, how is it that you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?’” Meek does not mean silent. When St. Paul, who by some accounts was less than dynamic in person (2 Corinthians 10: 10), saw the great apostle Peter playing the hypocrite and affecting even mature disciples like Barnabas, he was not afraid to confront him—not in arrogance, but in humility (v. 20). This is true meekness: Quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger (James 1: 19).
