Peter’s sentence definitive in matter of faith, there is no more to be attributed to it out of this text than that Peter should continue in the belief of this point, namely, that Christ should come again and possess the kingdom at the day of judgment, which was not given by this text to all his successors; for we see they claim it in the world that now is.

The second place is that of Matt. 16:18, “Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” By which, as I have already shown in this chapter, is proved no more, than that the gates of hell shall not prevail against the confession of Peter, which gave occasion to that speech; namely this, that “Jesus is Christ the Son of God.”