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Evidence audit — Augustine — Christ/confession as rock; Peter represents the Church

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INTERPRETATION_AUDITAUDIT_HISTINT_MAT_16_AUGUSTINE_TRACT124
Interpretation Dependency Profile

Reception History Only

Premises mapped: 2 · Development threads: 1

Curated chronology: c. 416 CE · Earliest In Curated Corpus Only

This is a curated reception witness and not a claim that the interpretation originated here.

Open complete dependency profile

Chronology boundary: “Earliest in the curated Codex corpus” is not a claim of historical origin. Missing earlier records cannot be treated as evidence that a premise did not exist.
Interpretive Evidence Audit

Documented Reception Only · Curated Pass As Reception History

Audited target: Augustine — Christ/confession as rock; Peter represents the Church

Inference depth: Direct

Original-meaning weight: No Automatic Original Meaning Weight

Support review

History Of Interpretation: {"rating":"PRIMARY_SOURCE_DOCUMENTED","notes":["The source establishes attribution of the interpretation, not its correctness."]}

Dependencies

Type: TRADITIONAL_AUTHORITY_PREMISE

Note: Rejected as an authority shortcut.

Inferential steps

Identify the interpreter and work.
Locate the Matthew 16 reading.
Describe it without upgrading age or status into original-meaning evidence.

Counterevidence review

Other early interpreters in the curated sample read the rock/Peter relationship differently.

Strongest competing case

The other curated patristic witnesses preserve materially different emphases.

Audit conclusion

Publish as documented reception history only; evaluate the reading independently if used as a current interpretive claim.

What this audit does not establish

That this interpreter originated the reading.
That the reading is correct because it is early, famous, orthodox, Reformed, or influential.
That later doctrinal structures can be read back into Matthew 16 without separately supporting each dependency.

What this does not establish

That this interpreter originated the reading.
That the reading is correct because it is early, famous, orthodox, Reformed, or influential.
That later doctrinal structures can be read back into Matthew 16 without separately supporting each dependency.
Release Introduced
v57
Status
CURATED_PUBLIC