Excerpt from The Life and Writings of George Washington Doane, D.D. LL. D, Vol. 2 of 4: For Twenty-Seven Years Bishop of New Jersey, Containing His Poetical Works, Sermons, and Miscellaneous Writings The current of Patristic interpretation plainly gathers around the Rock, which is Christ. And Antiquity is against the Papal perversion, which founds the Church on the Epis copal office of St. Peter transmissive to his so-called successors in the Roman See. Can it be thought, if so much importance attached to this name, that St. Paul should twice call the Apostle, Cephas; and our Lord Himself in that other noble, and perverted text, when he spoke with most intense solemnity, should have called Mm, through whom He gave to the Apostolic ministry the charge to feed His sheep and lambs, simply, Simon the son of Jonas? Canon Wordsworth in his Greek Testament has a full and valuable note upon this passage; and the whole subject is most minutely treated in Bishop Andrewes' Tortura Torti Bishop Beveridge on Article xxxviii., and Barrow on the Pope's Supremacy. There is a strong temptation, in a generous confidence of the prevalence of truth, and in the evident fact that no Papal doctrine follows from it, to give to Roman Catholics the full ben efit of their interpretation of this passage. But Churchmen, diligently reading Holy Scripture and Ancient Authors, must see that they have no right to yield or surrender this ancient and well-nigh universal interpretation, from any motive or on any ground. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.