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Dependency profile — Matthew 16:18 — “gates of Hades” promises that death/Hades will not prevail, but the mechanism is not fully specified

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INTERPRETATION_DEPENDENCY_PROFILEDEP_INT_MAT_16_GATES_HADES
Interpretation Dependency Profile

Text Rooted Minimal Inference

Profiled target: Matthew 16:18 — “gates of Hades” promises that death/Hades will not prevail, but the mechanism is not fully specified

Argument-dependency analysis for the Matthew 16 doctrine stress test. The profile cannot increase evidentiary weight.

Premises

Direct Textual Data · Directly Demonstrated · Core

The gates of Hades are said not to prevail against the church.

Support records: PASSAGE_MAT_16_13_20

Premise P1

Intertextual Inference · Not Demonstrated By Passage · Rejected Bridge

The metaphor must equal a specific later doctrine of institutional indefectibility.

Premise P2

Dependency chain

The gates of Hades are said not to prevail against the church.
The metaphor must equal a specific later doctrine of institutional indefectibility.

Curated chronology

State: HISTORICAL_ORIGIN_UNKNOWN

Date Label: v57 curated corpus

Date Sort Key: 9999

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

Not an origin claim: this records the earliest currently curated witness relevant to the profile, not the first historical occurrence.

Development threads: THREAD_MAT_16_PETRINE_TO_PAPAL_CHAIN, THREAD_MAT_16_ROCK_RECEPTION_DIVERSITY

What this profile does not establish

A guarantee that every church leader or institution will avoid error.
A complete doctrine of ecclesial indefectibility without added premises.

What this does not establish

A guarantee that every church leader or institution will avoid error.
A complete doctrine of ecclesial indefectibility without added premises.
Release Introduced
v57
Passage Id
PASSAGE_MAT_16_13_20
Status
CURATED_PUBLIC