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Evidence audit — Universal papal supremacy is the end of a multi-step dependency chain, not a sentence directly stated in Matthew 16

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INTERPRETATION_AUDITAUDIT_INT_MAT_16_UNIVERSAL_SUPREMACY
Interpretation Dependency Profile

Context Model Dependent

Premises mapped: 3 · 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

Later Development · Curated Pass With Limits

Audited target: Universal papal supremacy is the end of a multi-step dependency chain, not a sentence directly stated in Matthew 16

Inference depth: Multi Step

Original-meaning weight: Later Development

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: LATER_DOCTRINAL_PREMISE

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

Inferential steps

Petrine office continues.
Roman bishops uniquely inherit it.
The inherited office has supreme, full, immediate, universal jurisdiction.

Counterevidence review

primary Orthodox institutional counter-claim to universal jurisdiction
representative Reformed rejection of papal headship

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 a later doctrine is false merely because it contains added premises.
That Matthew 16 alone is sufficient evidence for every premise in the chain.

What this does not establish

That a later doctrine is false merely because it contains added premises.
That Matthew 16 alone is sufficient evidence for every premise in the chain.
Release Introduced
v57
Status
CURATED_PUBLIC