Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Isho'dad of Merv (9th century): The ‘Rock’ is not the Person of Peter But His Confession

  

He calls Cepha [=a rock]; not the person of Simon, but the confession and the right faith that were in him, which the Fathers had caused to flow into his mouth, which [confession] is incorruptible and immoveable for ever. (The Commentaries of Isho'dad of Merv, 3 vols. [trans. Margaret Dunlop Gibson; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1911], 1:66)