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Evidence audit — Strong Orthodox formulation represented in v57 — primacy exists, but universal primacy is not universal governing jurisdiction

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INTERPRETATION_AUDITAUDIT_INT_MAT_16_ORTHODOX_FORMULATION
Interpretation Dependency Profile

Reception History Only

Premises mapped: 2 · Development threads: 2

Curated chronology: v57 curated corpus · Historical Origin Unknown

This profile distinguishes the current Archive evidence chain from historical origin. The earliest loaded witness is not a claim that the idea originated there.

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: Strong Orthodox formulation represented in v57 — primacy exists, but universal primacy is not universal governing jurisdiction

Inference depth: Moderate

Original-meaning weight: No Automatic Original Meaning Weight

Support review

Textual: {"rating":"REVIEWED","notes":["Direct Matthew 16 wording was separated from added premises."]}

Linguistic: {"rating":"REVIEWED_WHERE_RELEVANT","notes":["Greek claims are limited to demonstrable lexical/grammatical observations; no Aramaic reconstruction is treated as extant wording."]}

Historical Context: {"rating":"SEPARATE_LAYER","notes":["Later doctrinal and patristic evidence is used as reception/development evidence unless independently relevant to original context."]}

Dependencies

Type: NONE_MATERIAL

Note: See the v57 dependency profile for explicit premise-by-premise analysis.

Inferential steps

The Moscow Patriarchate explicitly affirms universal primacy of honor and rejects universal governing jurisdiction.
This one Orthodox synod speaks exhaustively for all Orthodox reasoning.

Counterevidence review

Catholic dogmatic counter-formulation

Strongest competing case

See linked serious Catholic, Orthodox, Reformed, and patristic formulations where relevant; direct-text claims are not overridden by those labels.

Audit conclusion

Publish with the stated classification and boundaries. Reception records remain separate from original-meaning evidence, and later doctrinal arrows remain visible rather than being folded into Matthew 16.

What this audit does not establish

That every Orthodox theologian or autocephalous church articulates primacy identically.
That Matthew 16 gives Peter no distinctive role.

What this does not establish

That every Orthodox theologian or autocephalous church articulates primacy identically.
That Matthew 16 gives Peter no distinctive role.
Release Introduced
v57
Status
CURATED_PUBLIC