...says Bernard, " which has been founded on the solid rock Christ. Whence the Lord (Matt, xvi.) says to Peter, ' Thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my church," &c.* That Bernard was quite sound on this point, is plain also from an incidental but important passage...

...them, " One is your Master, even Christ, and ALL YE are brethren. Nor does the celebrated passage, " Thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my church," critically examined, give the least semblance to his official supremacy. For the church was not built...

...usual passages of Holy Scripture are quoted to prove the existence of this Primacy. We read much of " Thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my Church ;" but we find no interpretation of the rebuke, "Get thee behind me, Satau." The testimony of the Acts...

...Church is built. This b Rom. ix. 4. 0 Ilcb. xii. 22. is the import of what our Saviour said to Petor ; " Thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my Church :" he did not mean, that he would build it on the person of Peter, but on the testimony of Peter just...

...flesh and blood has not revealed it unto thee, but my Father who is in heaven. And I say unto thee that thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. These things, the Bishop said, it is plain were...

...its Author was an impostor, or deceiver, for he had declared most solemnly that it should not fail. " Thou art Peter, and on this Rock will I build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." The author, it seems to us, in endeavoring to...

...which the Romans rested the power of the Pope, and said, ' that the text on which Dr. Eck relied — Thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my church — did not refer to St. Peter, still less to any of his successors, but to the Lord Jesus Christ,...

...temporum et tuccessionvm meet episcopontm ordinatio et ecclesia ratio decurrit ut ecclesia super epiteopos constituatur, &c. 'when our blessed Saviour was ordering...church be founded upon bishops/ &c. The same also St.Hierome intimates, Non est facile ttare loco Pauli, teaere gradum Petri, ' it is not a small thing...

...character, and has since attained a wonderful renown. Aside from that saying of the Savior to him, " Thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my Church," he was one of those apostles and prophets on which, as a foundation, the Church is built, Jesus Christ...

...infernal love of self and the world has deduced from the Lord's words to Peter : ' I say unto thee, that thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it ; and I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom...