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A continuing Petrine office is an added premise beyond Matthew 16 itself

A reusable research record with provenance and relationships kept separate from the presentation layer.

INTERPRETIVE_CLAIMINT_MAT_16_PETRINE_SUCCESSION

Evidence state: tradition dependent

Statement layerBerean synthesis
ConfidenceModerate
Curation stateCurated Human Reviewed
Claim

To move from Peter’s commission in Matthew 16 to a continuing Petrine office, an argument must add evidence that this commission was intended to persist after Peter’s death and to be transmitted to successors. v57 treats that step as a separately auditable doctrinal/historical premise rather than as wording directly stated in Matthew 16.

Interpretive Evidence Audit

Tradition Dependent · Curated Pass With Limits

Inference depth: Multi Step · Original-meaning weight: Tradition Dependent

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

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.

Supporting evidence

Id: INT_MAT_16_SUCCESSION_EXPLICITNESS

Role: passage boundary

Source Id: SRC_VATICAN_I_PASTOR_AETERNUS

Role: later explicit Catholic formulation

Counterevidence / challenges

Id: HISTINT_MAT_16_CYPRIAN_UNITY

Note: early Petrine-unity language is not identical to Vatican I succession doctrine

What this does not establish

That Petrine succession is historically late merely because v57 has not yet loaded earlier succession evidence.
That the premise is false; only that Matthew 16 alone does not state it.
Release Introduced
v57
Passage Id
PASSAGE_MAT_16_13_20
Evidence Classification
tradition dependent
Status
CURATED_PUBLIC