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    "figure_name": "Clay Jar, Potter’s Vessel, and Fragile-Treasure Imagery",
    "technical_name": "Clay, potter, vessel, potsherd, earthen vessel, and fragile-treasure imagery",
    "alternate_names": "clay imagery; potter imagery; vessel imagery; earthen vessel imagery; potsherd imagery",
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    "reader_category": "Creatureliness, sovereignty, fragility, judgment, and entrusted treasure / Clay-vessel imagery",
    "bullinger_class": "Biblical imagery and motif forms",
    "simple_definition": "Clay-vessel imagery uses potters, clay, jars, potsherds, and earthen vessels to picture human creatureliness, God’s sovereignty, fragile mortality, judgment, and treasure carried in weakness.",
    "technical_definition": "A formed-material motif in which clay and vessels signify dependence on the maker, divine right over the formed thing, human fragility, breakability under judgment, and the paradox of treasure in weak containers.",
    "source_hint": "Wave 33 draft-normalized stones/metals/clay/jewels imagery review; distinguish this from broad Pottery, Clay, and Vessel Imagery by focusing on fragility, formedness, potsherds, and treasure in earthen vessels.",
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      "reference": "Gen. 2:7",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "formed man of the dust of the ground",
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      "reference": "Isa. 29:16",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "shall the thing framed say of him that framed it",
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      "reference": "Isa. 45:9",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the potsherd strive with the potsherds",
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      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Isa. 64:8",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "we are the clay, and thou our potter",
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      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Jer. 18:4",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the vessel that he made of clay was marred",
      "explanation": "The marred vessel illustrates God’s sovereign dealing with nations.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Jer. 18:6",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "as the clay is in the potter’s hand",
      "explanation": "Israel is compared to clay in the hand of the LORD.",
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      "reference": "Jer. 19:10",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "break the bottle",
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      "reference": "Rom. 9:21",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "power over the clay",
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      "reference": "2 Cor. 4:7",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "treasure in earthen vessels",
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