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  • Petrus et super hanc petram, etc., etc. The Friends of the A B C were not numerous, it was a secret society in the state of embryo, we might almost say a coterie, if coteries ended in heroes.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • January 9th, 2006 at 1: 30 pm super hanc petram » links for 2006-01-09

    Don’t Blow Your Beta Michael Arrington 2005

  • February 4th, 2006 at 3: 19 pm super hanc petram » links for 2006-02-04

    The Memeorandum Hunters Michael Arrington 2005

  • Tu es Petrus et super hanc petram edificabo ecclesiam meam et portae inferi non praevalebunt adversus eam et quodcumque ligaveris super terram erit ligatum et in caelo et quodcumque solveris super terram erit solutum et in caelo.

    Hamilton: "A Liturgy of Reform" 1996

  • The exception which they lay hereunto, from the use of Cephas in the Syriac, which was the name of Peter, and signified a rock or a stone, lies not only against the authentic authority of the Greek original, but of their own translation of it, which reads the words, “Tu es Petrus, et super hanc petram.”

    Christologia 1616-1683 1965

  • Patricius petram elivari et non potuerunt elevavit autem eam petram;

    The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings Various

  • Christi praetermitti sententia dicentis: Tu es Petrus et super hanc petram aedificabo ecclesiam meam.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • If Venice from amid her lagoons could exclaim, Esto perpetua, Quebec, firm based upon her cliff, can say to the rest of Canada, Attendite ad petram unde excisi estis -- 'Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn.'

    The Founder of New France : A chronicle of Champlain Charles William Colby 1911

  • Si quia dixerit Petro dominus: Super hanc petram ædificabo ecclesiam meam, tibi dedi claves regni cælestis, vel,

    History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

  • Christi Braut und Gemahl ist, welche er durch sein Blut reinige, und endlich dem Vater ohne Tadel ganz unbefleckt darstelle, gebaut und versammelt werde. vivam hanc petram, hoc pacto inedificatis, ecclesiam construi, sanctamque sanctorum omnium collectionem et immaculatam

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

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