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That equation does not follow from the text.

Paul is speaking about:
* His own teaching
* Delivered orally or in writing
* To a living apostolic audience

Nothing in the verse establishes:
* A perpetual interpretive office
* An infallible successor mechanism
* A later church’s right to define new dogma

If this verse proves Rome, then it would also prove:
* Eastern Orthodoxy
* Any sect claiming “oral apostolic tradition”
* Even competing Gnostic groups in the 2nd century

Which is absurd.

Your own standard collapses into pluralism the moment the apostles die.