Matthew 16:18

Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics

which it was not permitted the people to understand? Was anything withheld from the knowledge of Peter, who is called "the rock on which the church should be built,"[225]

Tertullian On Modesty

If, because the Lord has said to Peter, "Upon this rock will I build My Church,"[278]

Hippolytus Dogmatical and Historical Fragments

By this Spirit the rock of the Church was stablished.[418]

Cyprian Treatise I On the Unity of the Church

And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound also in heaven, and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."[11]

Cyprian Treatise IX On the Advantage of Patience

Peter also, upon whom by the Lord's condescension the Church was founded,[21]

Clementine Homily XVII

nd discourse a whole year to those who were awake? 'And how are we to believe your word, when you tell us that He appeared to you? And how did He appear to you, when you entertain opinions contrary to His teaching? But if you were seen and taught by Him, and became His apostle for a single hour, proclaim His utterances, interpret His sayings, love His apostles, contend not with me who companied with Him. For in direct opposition to me, who am a firm rock, the foundation of the Church,[53]

Origen Commentary on John Book V

And Peter, on whom the Church of Christ is built, against which the gates of hell shall not prevail[6]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII

And if we too have said like Peter, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God," not as if flesh and blood had revealed it unto us, but by light from the Father in heaven having shone in our heart, we become a Peter, and to us there might be said by the Word, "Thou art Peter," etc.[68]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII

But if you suppose that upon that one Peter only the whole church is built by God, what would you say about John the son of thunder or each one of the Apostles? Shall we otherwise dare to say, that against Peter in particular the gates of Hades shall not prevail, but that they shall prevail against the other Apostles and the perfect? Does not the saying previously made, "The gates of Hades shall not prevail against it,"[71]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII

hold in regard to all and in the case of each of them? And also the saying, "Upon this rock I will build My church"?[72]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII

And, in the first place, I think that the saying, "I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven," is spoken in consistency with the words, "The gates of Hades shall not prevail against it."[102]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII

But when those who maintain the function of the episcopate make use of this word as Peter, and, having received the keys of the kingdom of heaven from the Saviour, teach that things bound by them, that is to say, condemned, are also bound in heaven, and that those which have obtained remission by them are also loosed in heaven, we must say that they speak wholesomely if they have the way of life on account of which it was said to that Peter, "Thou art Peter; "[105]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII " Accordingly Mark and Luke who have recorded that Peter answered and said, "Thou art the Christ," but have not given the addition found in Matthew, have not recorded that he was declared blessed for what had been said, nor the blessing which followed the declaration of blessedness, "Thou art Peter,"[119]