{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 123/1910-09-12_02/p047","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In the case of many passages the traditional texts do not help because it is impossible to be certain of exactly what they contain. But the words of Peter's avowal in the Matthew Gospel are among the least disputed of any, because there is no philological reason whatever for calling them into question—as there is in the case of many others owing to the complicated history of the tradition behind them. ‘Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.’ ‘Thou Peter, and upon this rock I will build my community; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.’ No objection can be made.to these words—nor indeed is ever made—from the standpoint of philology, for there is no text to justify it. There may have been hopes that a basis for objections would be forthcoming from recently discovered texts, but it so happens that the passage in question is indecipherable in these texts, the relevant portion being very corrupt. That at any rate is the verdict of philology. Naturally we must rely here upon the reports of those who have actually examined the documents.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture XII","site_heading":"Divine Beings Descending: Christ as the Greatest Avatar","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Es sind manche Worte durch die wirklich recht komplizierte Überlieferung zu bezweifeln; aber gegen die Worte des Petrus-Bekenntnisses: «Du bist Christus, der Sohn des lebendigen Gottes» und gegen die anderen Worte: «Du bist Petrus, und auf diesen Felsen will ich bauen meine Gemeinde, und die Pforten der Hölle sollen sie nicht überwältigen», dagegen läßt sich vom Standpunkt einer Philologie nichts einwenden. Und Einwände dagegen werden auch nicht gemacht. Es gibt nirgends einen Text, von dem aus dagegen Einwendungen gemacht werden könnten. Von den Texten, die in der neueren Zeit gefunden worden sind, hätte man vielleicht hoffen können, daß sich Einwendungen daraus ergeben; aber man kann gerade bei diesen Texten die betreffende Stelle nicht lesen, weil jener Teil sehr korrumpiert ist. So wenigstens ist das philologische Ergebnis. 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