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Matthew 18:18 — binding and loosing are also addressed to the disciple community

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INTERPRETIVE_CLAIMINT_MAT_16_MAT18_SHARED

Evidence state: textually demonstrable

Statement layerBerean synthesis
ConfidenceHigh
Curation stateCurated Human Reviewed
Claim

Matthew 18:18 repeats binding-and-loosing language in the plural within a community-discipline context. Therefore Matthew’s Gospel itself prevents treating the act of binding and loosing as an authority category possessed only by Peter.

Interpretive Evidence Audit

Textually Demonstrable · Curated Pass

Inference depth: Direct · Original-meaning weight: Textually Demonstrable

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.

Open complete evidence audit

Quality-gate boundary: This audit measures evidentiary support and inferential distance. It does not make the Codex infallible or convert scholar/tradition authority into evidence.
Interpretation Dependency Profile

Text Rooted Minimal Inference

Premises mapped: 2 · 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.

Supporting evidence

Reference: Matthew 18:15–20

Role: direct canonical/contextual comparison

Counterevidence / challenges

Note: Matthew 16 still gives Peter the keys and addresses him individually; Matthew 18 does not erase that distinctive feature.

What this does not establish

That Peter has no distinctive role.
That all aspects of Matthew 16:19 are identically distributed to every believer.
Release Introduced
v57
Passage Id
PASSAGE_MAT_16_13_20
Evidence Classification
textually demonstrable
Status
CURATED_PUBLIC