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

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INTERPRETIVE_CLAIMINT_MAT_16_SUCCESSION_EXPLICITNESS

Evidence state: textually demonstrable

Statement layerBerean synthesis
ConfidenceHigh
Curation stateCurated Human Reviewed
Claim

The passage names Peter and speaks of church, keys, and binding/loosing, but it does not mention Peter’s death, a successor, an episcopal office, ordination, transmission of the keys, or a rule for identifying later holders.

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.

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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.

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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: PASSAGE_MAT_16_13_20

Role: negative textual observation bounded to the passage

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
Evidence Classification
textually demonstrable
Status
CURATED_PUBLIC