[hosepipe]

[ Not in the original Greek. Matthew 16:18: kai epi tauth th petra . It's sort of a double emphasis - tauth th means "this very same" - it's intensive. It wasn't "the". ]

It was a metaphor.. the meaning is lost by some perceiving it to be literal.. bastardizing the metaphor to a different very convenient meaning..

[AnAmericanMother]

First you say it was "the", not "this". You were unfortunately wrong, and you were called on it.

Now you say it's a "bastardized" metaphor - well, it's clearly a metaphor, because Saint Peter was not a chunk of granite at the foot of Mt. Hermon.

I think you just showed me a weasel.