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Dependency profile — Matthew 16:18–19 does not explicitly state a succession mechanism

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INTERPRETATION_DEPENDENCY_PROFILEDEP_INT_MAT_16_SUCCESSION_EXPLICITNESS
Interpretation Dependency Profile

Text Rooted Minimal Inference

Profiled target: Matthew 16:18–19 does not explicitly state a succession mechanism

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

Premises

Direct Textual Data · Directly Demonstrated · Core

Matthew 16:13–20 names no successor, transmission rite, Roman see, or post-Petrine office.

Support records: PASSAGE_MAT_16_13_20

Premise P1

Later Doctrinal Premise · Not Demonstrated By Passage · Rejected Bridge

No explicit succession in this passage means succession is impossible from all other evidence.

Premise P2

Dependency chain

Matthew 16:13–20 names no successor, transmission rite, Roman see, or post-Petrine office.
No explicit succession in this passage means succession is impossible from all other evidence.

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 succession is therefore false.
That broader New Testament or historical evidence cannot support succession.
That silence in one passage resolves the entire ecclesiological question.

What this does not establish

That succession is therefore false.
That broader New Testament or historical evidence cannot support succession.
That silence in one passage resolves the entire ecclesiological question.
Release Introduced
v57
Passage Id
PASSAGE_MAT_16_13_20
Status
CURATED_PUBLIC