'He said if they did the Gentiles would only turn on the disciples and attack them. He got that right.'

Well, Paul was a Roman citizen who had had some Greco-Roman education as well as Jewish teaching. But subsequent history, both of Christians and Muslims, has proved only too cogent about what both tribes did to the Jews. Come to think of it, can't the 'it's-all-mine-now-not-yours-anymore' attitude--that is, that sort of selfishness--be characterized as swinish indeed? I think it can be.