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Evidence audit — Matthew 16:16–19 — Peter has a real and distinctive immediate narrative role

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INTERPRETATION_AUDITAUDIT_INT_MAT_16_PETER_IMMEDIATE_ROLE
Interpretation Dependency Profile

Text Rooted Minimal Inference

Premises mapped: 1 · 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

Textually Demonstrable · Curated Pass

Audited target: Matthew 16:16–19 — Peter has a real and distinctive immediate narrative role

Inference depth: Direct

Original-meaning weight: Textually Demonstrable

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

Peter confesses Jesus and receives a personal blessing and promises in vv. 17–19.

Counterevidence review

Matthew 16:23 immediately records a severe rebuke of Peter, preventing prominence from being equated with impeccability or interpretive infallibility.

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 Peter’s distinctive role is exclusive in every respect.
That Peter’s role is hereditary.
That the role belongs to Rome.

What this does not establish

That Peter’s distinctive role is exclusive in every respect.
That Peter’s role is hereditary.
That the role belongs to Rome.
Release Introduced
v57
Status
CURATED_PUBLIC