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  "source_note": "Generated from final CSV/JSON source state for verification and future builder input. This is not verified against any pre-existing live-site sidecar schema.",
  "figure": {
    "figure_id": "FOS_0346",
    "figure_name": "Appeal to Heaven and Earth",
    "technical_name": "Cosmic Witness Appeal",
    "alternate_names": "Heaven and earth witness formula; cosmic summons; creation witness",
    "page_slug": "appeal-to-heaven-and-earth",
    "reader_category": "Covenant / Cosmic Witness",
    "bullinger_class": "Legal and covenantal discourse form / cosmic witness",
    "simple_definition": "An appeal to heaven and earth calls creation to witness covenant truth, human guilt, or divine speech.",
    "technical_definition": "An appeal to heaven and earth is a covenantal and prophetic speech form in which creation is summoned as witness to God’s word, covenant obligations, rebellion, or judgment.",
    "source_hint": "Related to covenant witness formula; verify and avoid duplicate classification where needed.",
    "canonical_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/figures-of-speech-in-the-bible/appeal-to-heaven-and-earth/",
    "json_sidecar_path": "/data/figures-of-speech/appeal-to-heaven-and-earth.json",
    "publication_status": "style_matched_draft_v17",
    "page_status": "draft-normalized"
  },
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0346",
      "figure_name": "Appeal to Heaven and Earth",
      "page_slug": "appeal-to-heaven-and-earth",
      "reference": "Deut. 4:26",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "I call heaven and earth to witness against you",
      "explanation": "Moses summons creation as witness to covenant warning.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized biblical rhetoric dataset",
      "source_section": "Wave 17 disputation, witness, and commissioning forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Verify against final site Bible text stream, source taxonomy, and original-language/context review before publication.",
      "review_status": "draft-normalized"
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX17_1518",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0346",
      "figure_name": "Appeal to Heaven and Earth",
      "page_slug": "appeal-to-heaven-and-earth",
      "reference": "Deut. 30:19",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "I call heaven and earth to record this day",
      "explanation": "Heaven and earth witness the choice between life and death.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized biblical rhetoric dataset",
      "source_section": "Wave 17 disputation, witness, and commissioning forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Verify against final site Bible text stream, source taxonomy, and original-language/context review before publication.",
      "review_status": "draft-normalized"
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX17_1519",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0346",
      "figure_name": "Appeal to Heaven and Earth",
      "page_slug": "appeal-to-heaven-and-earth",
      "reference": "Deut. 31:28",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "that I may call heaven and earth to record against them",
      "explanation": "Moses invokes cosmic witnesses before warning Israel.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized biblical rhetoric dataset",
      "source_section": "Wave 17 disputation, witness, and commissioning forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Verify against final site Bible text stream, source taxonomy, and original-language/context review before publication.",
      "review_status": "draft-normalized"
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX17_1520",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0346",
      "figure_name": "Appeal to Heaven and Earth",
      "page_slug": "appeal-to-heaven-and-earth",
      "reference": "Deut. 32:1",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Give ear, O ye heavens... hear, O earth",
      "explanation": "The song opens with creation summoned to hear covenant testimony.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized biblical rhetoric dataset",
      "source_section": "Wave 17 disputation, witness, and commissioning forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Verify against final site Bible text stream, source taxonomy, and original-language/context review before publication.",
      "review_status": "draft-normalized"
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX17_1521",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0346",
      "figure_name": "Appeal to Heaven and Earth",
      "page_slug": "appeal-to-heaven-and-earth",
      "reference": "Isa. 1:2",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth",
      "explanation": "Isaiah summons creation to hear the LORD's indictment of His people.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized biblical rhetoric dataset",
      "source_section": "Wave 17 disputation, witness, and commissioning forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Verify against final site Bible text stream, source taxonomy, and original-language/context review before publication.",
      "review_status": "draft-normalized"
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX17_1522",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0346",
      "figure_name": "Appeal to Heaven and Earth",
      "page_slug": "appeal-to-heaven-and-earth",
      "reference": "Jer. 2:12",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Be astonished, O ye heavens",
      "explanation": "The heavens are rhetorically addressed as witnesses to Judah's shocking apostasy.",
      "certainty": "probable",
      "source": "Draft-normalized biblical rhetoric dataset",
      "source_section": "Wave 17 disputation, witness, and commissioning forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Verify against final site Bible text stream, source taxonomy, and original-language/context review before publication.",
      "review_status": "draft-normalized"
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX17_1523",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0346",
      "figure_name": "Appeal to Heaven and Earth",
      "page_slug": "appeal-to-heaven-and-earth",
      "reference": "Mic. 6:1-2",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "hear ye, O mountains",
      "explanation": "The mountains and foundations of the earth are summoned to hear the LORD's case.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized biblical rhetoric dataset",
      "source_section": "Wave 17 disputation, witness, and commissioning forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Verify against final site Bible text stream, source taxonomy, and original-language/context review before publication.",
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    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX17_1524",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0346",
      "figure_name": "Appeal to Heaven and Earth",
      "page_slug": "appeal-to-heaven-and-earth",
      "reference": "Ps. 50:4",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "He shall call to the heavens... and to the earth",
      "explanation": "Heaven and earth are called as witnesses in divine judgment.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized biblical rhetoric dataset",
      "source_section": "Wave 17 disputation, witness, and commissioning forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Verify against final site Bible text stream, source taxonomy, and original-language/context review before publication.",
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    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX17_1525",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0346",
      "figure_name": "Appeal to Heaven and Earth",
      "page_slug": "appeal-to-heaven-and-earth",
      "reference": "2 Chr. 24:19",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "he sent prophets... to testify against them",
      "explanation": "The witness idea appears in prophetic testimony, though not directly heaven and earth.",
      "certainty": "possible",
      "source": "Draft-normalized biblical rhetoric dataset",
      "source_section": "Wave 17 disputation, witness, and commissioning forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Verify against final site Bible text stream, source taxonomy, and original-language/context review before publication.",
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    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX17_1526",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0346",
      "figure_name": "Appeal to Heaven and Earth",
      "page_slug": "appeal-to-heaven-and-earth",
      "reference": "Heb. 12:25-26",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "whose voice then shook the earth",
      "explanation": "The cosmic shaking motif heightens the warning to hear God's final speech.",
      "certainty": "possible",
      "source": "Draft-normalized biblical rhetoric dataset",
      "source_section": "Wave 17 disputation, witness, and commissioning forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Verify against final site Bible text stream, source taxonomy, and original-language/context review before publication.",
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    }
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