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Dependency profile — Matthew 16:18 — the precise referent of “this rock” remains seriously disputed

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INTERPRETATION_DEPENDENCY_PROFILEDEP_INT_MAT_16_ROCK_REFERENT
Interpretation Dependency Profile

Disputed Weighting Of Textual Data

Profiled target: Matthew 16:18 — the precise referent of “this rock” remains seriously disputed

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

Premises

Direct Textual Data · Directly Demonstrated · Core

Peter is the immediate singular addressee.

Support records: PASSAGE_MAT_16_13_20

Premise P1

Direct Textual Data · Directly Demonstrated · Core

The sentence links Peter and rock lexically.

Support records: PASSAGE_MAT_16_13_20

Premise P2

Literary Inference · Disputed · Bridge

The exact referent must be Peter alone, confession alone, Christ alone, or another exclusive option.

Premise P3

Dependency chain

Peter is the immediate singular addressee.
The sentence links Peter and rock lexically.
The exact referent must be Peter alone, confession alone, Christ alone, or another exclusive option.

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

That Peter is irrelevant to the saying.
That one patristic interpretation settles the grammar.
That identifying Peter as rock automatically establishes succession, Rome, jurisdiction, or supremacy.

What this does not establish

That Peter is irrelevant to the saying.
That one patristic interpretation settles the grammar.
That identifying Peter as rock automatically establishes succession, Rome, jurisdiction, or supremacy.
Release Introduced
v57
Passage Id
PASSAGE_MAT_16_13_20
Status
CURATED_PUBLIC