(St. Basil of bCasarea/b, Second Chapter of Isaiah) In St. Augustine's Retractions, he writes, In one place I said? that the Church had been built on Peter as the Rock? but in fact it was not said to Peter, Thou art the Rock, ... The power that riches give, and the low bestate/b to which poverty reduces, render a Bishop neither greater nor less.(St. Hieron. Epist. 146 ad Ev.) St. Hilary writes, The Rock is the blessed and only rock of the faith confessed by the mouth of Peter. ...
