This is true, but as i just posted, the problem with that premise is that it means the 1st cent. souls should have submitted to those who sat in the seat of Moses over Israel, who were the instruments and stewards of Holy Writ, and the inheritor of promises of Divine presence and preservation.
OH pshaw. Thats only a technicality that Im sure our RC Friends could quickly explain away. Maybe they would have to ask their friends in those cute fish hats they borrowed from the priests to the pagan fish god Dagon.