כי אבן מקיר תזעק
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"For the [Ebhen] stone shall cry out of the wall,
And the [Caphis] fastening shall testify out of the timber."
Thinking, or expressing, that concealment of the Messiahship of Jesus was impracticable.
"And Jesus [to whom word, thought, and deed were alike patent] answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona; for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. And I say also unto thee, That thou art Caphis; and upon the Ebhen I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth, shall be bound in heaven," &c.
The play (if so common an expression might be used in so sacred a theme) is not on the word Peter, but on the word
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