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Section 2 ~ Theology.  Chapter 6 of Science and Health 1910, Last edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy.   See SUBTITLE Text content below.

  	    Before this the impetuous disciple had been called
27	only by his common names, Simon Bar-jona, or son of
  	Jona; but now the Master gave him a spir-	                The true and
  	itual name in these words: "And I say also	                living rock 
30	unto thee, That thou art Peter; and upon this rock [the
  	meaning of the Greek word petros, or stone] I will build
  	my church; and the gates of hell [hades, the under-
 1	world, or the grave] shall not prevail against it." In
  	other words, Jesus purposed founding his society, not
 3	on the personal Peter as a mortal, but on the God-
  	power which lay behind Peter's confession of the true
  	Messiah.