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    "technical_definition": "A salvation imagery pattern in which sin and guilt may be represented as debt, deliverance as redemption or release, and Christ’s atoning work as ransom, purchase, or costly payment that secures forgiveness and belonging to God.",
    "source_hint": "Draft-normalized atonement imagery; verify doctrinal precision and do not force every commercial image into one mechanical theory.",
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      "reference": "Matt. 6:12",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "forgive us our debts",
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      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "unpayable debt forgiven",
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      "reference": "Matt. 20:28",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "ransom for many",
      "explanation": "Ransom language presents the Son of Man’s death as costly deliverance for others.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Luke 7:41-42",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "two debtors forgiven",
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      "reference": "Rom. 3:24",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "redemption in Christ Jesus",
      "explanation": "Redemption language frames justification as gracious deliverance through Christ.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "1 Cor. 6:20",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "bought with a price",
      "explanation": "Purchase imagery grounds bodily holiness in God’s costly ownership.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "1 Cor. 7:23",
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      "reference": "Eph. 1:7",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "redemption through his blood",
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      "reference": "1 Pet. 1:18-19",
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