Doctrine in scope
You cannot separate doctrine from Scripture in serious study, so pericopa carries it — as referenced, attributed content, never as its own reading. It surfaces what a tradition holds about a verse and who holds it; the reader judges. pericopa never ranks traditions and never declares one reading the right one.
Peers, not a hierarchy
Catholic, Reformed, and Pentecostal readings are presented side by side, in a fixed declaration order that is presentation, never a ranking. pericopa is constitutionally incapable of settling a doctrinal dispute — it shows the positions and their sources, and leaves the judgement to the reader.
Fork verses
Most verses share a common reading and carry no per-tradition entry. Only at a fork verse — where traditions genuinely diverge — does pericopa hold a record of each tradition's position with its cited sources. Where a tradition shares the common reading, it simply has no entry.
Openability by source
A public-domain source is openable to its own bytes, held like an edition. A modern position is captured as an adapted summary — the idea stated in pericopa's own words plus a citation, never the copyrighted text — so it is attributed but not byte-openable. The surface always shows which tier a source belongs to.
The fork, rendered tradition-native
The centerpiece below is a real fork from pericopa's doctrine model: each tradition's position on Matthew 16:18, with its cited sources and openability tier. Pentecostal carries no separate entry here — it shares the confession-centered reading — and pericopa says so rather than inventing one.
Matthew 16:18
On this reading the 'rock' is Peter himself: Christ founds the Church's enduring primacy on Peter's person and office, a primacy carried forward by his successors.
On this reading the 'rock' is the faith Peter confessed ('Thou art the Christ'), not Peter's person; the Church is built on Christ as confessed, and every believer who shares that confession stands on the same rock.
shares the common reading — no separate entry held