Papacy Flashcards
Vicar is one who represents another (luke 10:16)
He who hears you hears me
St. Cyprian of Cartahge, Epistle 68.4
“Nor do I boast of these things, but with grief I bring them forward, since you constitute
yourself a judge of God and of Christ, who says to the apostles, and thereby to all chief rulers,
who by vicarious ordination succeed to the apostles: He that hears you, hears me; and he that hears me, hears Him that sent me; and he that despises you, despises me, and Him that sent me.”
Hechos 5:1-5
To lie to peter is to lie to god
[1]Un hombre llamado Ananías, junto con su mujer, Safira, vendió una propiedad,
[2]y de acuerdo con ella, se guardó parte del dinero y puso el resto a disposición de los Apóstoles.
[3]Pedro le dijo: «Ananías, ¿por qué dejaste que Satanás se apoderara de ti hasta el punto de engañar al Espíritu Santo, guardándote una parte del dinero del campo?
[4]¿Acaso no eras dueño de quedarte con él? Y después de venderlo, ¿no podías guardarte el dinero? ¿Cómo se te ocurrió hacer esto? No mentiste a los hombres sino a Dios».
[5]Al oír estas palabras, Ananías cayó muerto. Un gran temor se apoderó de todos los que se enteraron de lo sucedido.
Peter is mentioned more than every other apostle combined
Peter is always first on apostle lists
Matthew 10:1-4. Mark 3:13-19. Luke 6:12-16
Peter was recipient of revelation tha jesus is the son of god
Mateo 16:16-17
[16]Tomando la palabra, Simón Pedro respondió: «Tú eres el Mesías, el Hijo de Dios vivo».
[17]Y Jesús le dijo: «Feliz de ti, Simón, hijo de Jonás, porque esto no te lo ha revelado ni la carne ni la sangre, sino mi Padre que está en el cielo.
Jesus preached from peter’s boat
Lucas 5:3
[3]Jesús subió a una de las barcas, que era de Simón, y le pidió que se apartara un poco de la orilla; después se sentó, y enseñaba a la multitud desde la barca.
Peter was the first man jesus appeared to after the ressurection
Like 24:34, 1 Cor 15:5
Peter is distinguished from the rest of the apostles by the angrl at the tomb
Marcos 16:7
[7]Vayan ahora a decir a sus discípulos y a Pedro que él irá antes que ustedes a Galilea; allí lo verán, como él se lo había dicho».
Andrew was called before peter (john 1:24) but he is not listed before peter
Apostle list is not by date of calling
John is youngest but he is not listed last
John is younger and can run faster because of that John 20:4
Apostle list is not by age
Judas is least important and put last in the list
List of apostles is by importance and peter is first therefore most important
Matthew 10:2
Peter is protos which can mean just first in a list but also chief or prime
When god changes someones name, it give that person a new mission Mateo 16:18-19
[18]Y yo te digo: Tú eres Pedro, y sobre esta piedra edificaré mi Iglesia, y el poder de la Muerte no prevalecerá contra ella.
[19]Yo te daré las llaves del Reino de los Cielos. Todo lo que ates en la tierra, quedará atado en el cielo, y todo lo que desates en la tierra, quedará desatado en el cielo».
Petros petra is a pun indicating that peter is that new foundation or rock
I Corintios 10:4
[4]En efecto, bebían el agua de una roca espiritual que los acompañaba, y esa roca era Cristo.
Está hablando de que Jesús era la roca que Moisés asotó en el desierto para darle ahua a los israelitas. No tiene nada que ver con la iglesia. Otras personas ueden ser rocas en otros contextos. Isaías 51:1-2
[1]¡Escúchenme, los que van tras la justicia, ustedes, los que buscan al Señor! Fíjense en la roca de la que fueron tallados, en la cantera de la que fueron extraídos;
[2]fíjense en su padre Abraham y en Sara, que los dio a luz: cuando él era uno solo, yo lo llamé, lo bendije y lo multipliqué.
I Corintios 3:11
[11]El fundamento ya está puesto y nadie puede poner otro, porque el fundamento es Jesucristo.
Efesios 2:20
[20]Ustedes están edificados sobre los apóstoles y los profetas, que son los cimientos, mientras que la piedra angular es el mismo Jesucristo.
Difference between petros (little rock) and petra (big rock)
The difference is only used in poetry. Only reason difference is here is because it woukd be weird to give a man the feminine name petra. John Calvin says “there is no difference of meaning, I acknowledge, between the two greek words petros and petra.”
Commentary on Matthew, Mark and Luke vol. 2 (edinburh: calvin translation society 1845) 295
Jesus spoke aramaic where there is no difference. Jesus named him Cephas
Matthew 16:17 Jesus says Simon Bar-Jona which is an aramaic phrase. Juan 1:42
[42]Entonces lo llevó a donde estaba Jesús. Jesús lo miró y le dijo: «Tú eres Simón, el hijo de Juan: tú te llamarás Cefas», que traducido significa Pedro. Cephas is both petra and petros so in aramaic there is no distinction
Tertuillian. On Modesty 21
If, because the Lord has said to Peter, Upon this rock will I build My Church, to you have I given the keys of the heavenly kingdom; or, Whatsoever you shall have bound or loosed in earth, shall be bound or loosed in the heavens, you therefore presume that the power of binding and loosing has derived to you, that is, to every Church akin to Peter, what sort of man are you, subverting and wholly changing the manifest intention of the Lord, conferring (as that intention did) this (gift) personally upon Peter? On you, He says, will I build My Church; and, I will give to you the keys, not to the Church; and, Whatsoever you shall have loosed or bound, not what they shall have loosed or bound. For so withal the result teaches. In (Peter) himself the Church was reared; that is, through (Peter) himself; (Peter) himself essayed the key; you see what (key): Men of Israel, let what I say sink into your ears: Jesus the Nazarene, a man destined by God for you, and so forth. (Peter) himself, therefore, was the first to unbar, in Christ’s baptism, the entrance to the heavenly kingdom, in which (kingdom) are loosed the sins that were beforetime bound; and those which have not been loosed are bound, in accordance with true salvation; and Ananias he bound with the bond of death, and the weak in his feet he absolved from his defect of health. Moreover, in that dispute about the observance or non-observance of the Law, Peter was the first of all to be endued with the Spirit, and, after making preface touching the calling of the nations, to say, And now why are you tempting the Lord, concerning the imposition upon the brethren of a yoke which neither we nor our fathers were able to support? But however, through the grace of Jesus we believe that we shall be saved in the same way as they. This sentence both loosed those parts of the law which were abandoned, and bound those which were reserved. Hence the power of loosing and of binding committed to Peter had nothing to do with the capital sins of believers; and if the Lord had given him a precept that he must grant pardon to a brother sinning against him even seventy times sevenfold, of course He would have commanded him to bind— that is, to retain — nothing subsequently, unless perchance such (sins) as one may have committed against the Lord, not against a brother. For the forgiveness of (sins) committed in the case of a man is a prejudgment against the remission of sins against God.
Cyprian of carthage unity of the catholic church 4
If any one consider and examine these things, there is no need for lengthened discussion and arguments. There is easy proof for faith in a short summary of the truth. The Lord speaks to Peter, saying, I say unto you, that you are Peter; and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give unto you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatsoever you shall bind on earth shall be bound also in heaven, and whatsoever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. And again to the same He says, after His resurrection, Feed my sheep. And although to all the apostles, after His resurrection, He gives an equal power, and says, As the Father has sent me, even so send I you: Receive the Holy Ghost: Whose soever sins you remit, they shall be remitted unto him; and whose soever sins you retain, they shall be retained; John 20:21 yet, that He might set forth unity, He arranged by His authority the origin of that unity, as beginning from one. Assuredly the rest of the apostles were also the same as was Peter, endowed with a like partnership both of honour and power; but the beginning proceeds from unity. Which one Church, also, the Holy Spirit in the Song of Songs designated in the person of our Lord, and says, My dove, my spotless one, is but one. She is the only one of her mother, elect of her that bare her. Song of Songs 6:9 Does he who does not hold this unity of the Church think that he holds the faith? Does he who strives against and resists the Church trust that he is in the Church, when moreover the blessed Apostle Paul teaches the same thing, and sets forth the sacrament of unity, saying, There is one body and one spirit, one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God? Ephesians 4:4
Matthew (16:19) Isaiah (22:22)
John 21:15-17
Fedd my sheep
Jesus never explicitly says who is greatest among them even whem asked in mk 9:34, lk 9:46 and 22:24 and the apostles didnt even know that peter was him which was weird
Jesus doesnt say there is no lewder, he says the leader must be like a servant which implies there is one. Just because the apostles didnt understand doesnt mean there want one. They didnt understand a lot of things. Also, later in like 22 jesus literally singles out peter and says that he is praying so that his faith specifically doesnt falter and he strengthens his brethren
1 corinthians 12:38 list of types of ministers does not inckude papacy but starts with apostles
Peter was a bishop and apostle and the papcy is not really a job that exists apart from those but rather is part of them. These type of inner distinctions can occur, since paul mentions john and james as having special roles as pillars of the church and yet the title pillar is not listed in these types of minister
Paul singles out peter from the other apsotles in 1 Cor 9:5 and 1 Cor 15 creed
Was peter ever in rome
Peter 1 pet 5 :13 mentions his church as “she who is at babylon, who is likewise chosen send you greetings” it could not have been the jewish community in actual babylon since josephus antiquities 18.9.8-9 says that the jews had fleed babylon for seleucia. Peter was apostle to the jews. (Galatians 2:7-8) Babylon was actually a symbolic name for rome since they were both the capital of the pagan empire
Revelations refers to rome as babylon repeatedly
Ignatius letter to the roman 4 says to the christians in rome “I do not, as Peter and Paul, issue commandments unto you. “
Irenaeus againt the heresies 3.3.2 “ of the very great, the very ancient, and universally known Church founded and organized at Rome by the two most glorious apostles, Peter and Paul”
Infallibility does not include impecability
Matthew 16:18 gatws of hell shall not prevail
