Now such a relation carries with it not merely precedency of honour, but superior authority. The strength of the Apostles lay in their union with Christ, and subordination to Him. The like necessity of adhering to Peter is expressed in his new name. Take away that subordination, and you destroy the very image by which the Lord chose to express Peter's dignity; and you remove, likewise, Peter's participation in that property which the Lord communicated to him in the name of the Rock. For if the Apostles needed not to be joined with him, he had no title to be called the Foundation; and if he had no coactive power over the Apostles, he did not share the property by which Christ is the Rock and Foundation. Thus the name, and the dignity expressed by the name, show Peter to have been singly invested by the Lord with both honour and power superior to all the Apostles.[76] FOOTNOTES: [1] John xvii. [2] Matt. xvi. 18. [3] Matt. xxviii. 19, 20. [4] Matt. v. 14; Psalm xlvii. 2; cxxxi. 13, 14. [5] 1 Tim. iii. 15. [6] John x. 11-16. [7] Eph. v. 32, 30. [8] Mark iii. 13. [9] Dan. ix. 26. [10] 1 John i. 1. [11] Luke xxii. 26. [12] Vid. John i. 42; Mark iii. 16; Matt. xvi. 18; Luke xxii. 32; John xxi. 15. [13] Passaglia, p. 35-7. [14] John i. 35-42. [15] S. Chrysostome on the text. S. Cyril on John i. 42. [16] Isai. xxviii. 16; Ps. cxvii. 22; Dan. ii. 35; Zach. iii. 9; Eph. ii. 20. [17] Theodoret on Dan. ii. 34. [18] Ambrose on Luke, Lib. 6, n. 97. [19] Serm. iv. 2. [20] For the name Boanerges, which in one place is given to the two sons of Zebedy, is in the first place a joint name; secondly, it is nowhere else referred to, and does not take the place of their birth-names; thirdly, it indicates not an official dignity, but an inward disposition. We cannot doubt that such a name bestowed on the two brothers was a mark of great distinction, but, for the above reasons, it cannot come into competition with the name of Peter. See Passaglia, p. 44, n. 38. [21] Mark iii. 14; Matt. x. 1; Luke vi. 14. [22] Cont. Marcion. L. 4, c. 13. [23] Apoc. xxii. 16; iii. 7. [24] S. Chris. on Matt. 16, Hom. 54. [25] S. Leo, Serm. 3 on his anniversary. [26] Hilary of Poitiers on Matt. xv. n. 6; on Ps. cxxxi. n. 4; on the Trinity, L. 6, n. 20. Gregory Naz. Orat. 26, p. 453. Ambrose in his first hymn, referred to also by Augustine, Retract. lib. 1, c. 21, and Epiph. in ancor. n. 9. [27] Tertullian de monogam. c. 8. Origen on Ps. 1, quoted by Eusebius, Hist. I. 6, c. 25. Cyprian, Ep. 71, and Firmilian, among Cyprian's letters, 75. [28] Basil cont. Eunom. lib. 2, n. 4. Zeno. lib. 2, tract. 13, n. 2. [29] By the same. [30] Epiphan. haer. 59, n. 7. [31] August. in Ps. cont. par. Donati. Leo, serm. 98. [32] Theodoret, ep. 77. [33] Maximus of Turin, serm. pro natali Petri et Pauli. [34] Greg. Nazian. in hom. archieratico inserta. [35] Origen on Exod. hom. 5, n. 4.