I prefer to go with Augustine !!! Seemingly he shared my prejudices.
I prefer what makes logical sense, and neither your false distiction petra/petros nor your assertion of sola scriptura can be justified logically, historically or biblically - all clutching at straws to avoid the obvious.
So now you know the language of the holy land (you did not know this before) clear in acts 1:19 as Aramaic from the place you trust which is scripture, I presume you will now recant your version and accept as Luther and Calvin did that Peter is the rock. And special, and the petra /petros distinction was just a creative intepretation of protestants to avoid the blindingly obvious!
As for Augustine, he makes his views clear on succession in his letter to Generosus about donatists.
"2. For if the lineal succession of
bishops is to be taken into account, with how much more certainty and benefit to the
Church do we reckon back till we reach Peter himself, to whom, as bearing in a figure the whole
Church, the Lord said: Upon this rock will I build my Church, and the gates of
hell shall not prevail against it!
Matthew 16:18 The successor of Peter was Linus, and his successors in unbroken continuity were these:— Clement, Anacletus, Evaristus, Alexander, Sixtus,
Telesphorus,
Iginus,
Anicetus,
Pius,
Soter,
Eleutherius, Victor, Zephirinus, Calixtus, Urbanus, Pontianus, Antherus, Fabianus, Cornelius, Lucius, Stephanus, Xystus, Dionysius, Felix, Eutychianus, Gaius, Marcellinus, Marcellus, Eusebius, Miltiades, Sylvester, Marcus, Julius, Liberius, Damasus, and
Siricius, whose successor is the present Bishop Anastasius
Clearly supporting my view and that of RCC
But then irenaus against heresies 3 says exactly the same, and many other ECF agree.
You make the same logical error with ECF you do with sola scriptura. That those who do not say something is true, can therefore be assumed to say it was false.
Which is the A AND B is not the same as NOT A and NOT B falacy.Enrol on a course of logic valiant. All the ECF breathed...you cannot assume they do not because they do not say so . They were long on shouting down heresy, strange they do not all shout down the office of the papacy when it so clearly existed, if they thought it was heresy. WHy are they silent on that?
Study logic and history valiant - stop superimposing your "wish" on what is not actually there.