In AEschylus (Persae, 291) it retains its old significance as denoting simply a tribe. In Sophocles (Ed. Tyr. 387) it appears among the epithets of reproach which the king heaps upon Tiresias. The fact, however, that the religion with which the word was associated still maintained its ...
2.Peter was not by nature rock-like; he was, on the contrary, characteristically impulsive and unstable. There must be, therefore, some other significance in the words 'Thou art a rock' which the Roman Catholic interpretation loses.
Although an enemy of the Textus Receptus, in reference to the textual evidence for the New Testament, Bruce Metzger correctly wrote concerning these variants: "In evaluating the significance of these statistics...one should consider, by way of contrast, the number of manuscripts which preserve ...