[kosciusko51]

Again, in either rendering, Paul is not talking about an honorific title.

[ravenwolf]

Again, in either rendering, Paul is not talking about an honorific title.

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He may not have been talking about it but there are over a billion Catholics who must have thought he was.

The Protestants claim Jesus did not say Simon would be called a rock but there are also over a billion Catholics and no doubt millions of Protestants who think of him as the rock or call him the rock.

So regardless of the reason Paul said it that is what we have.