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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.",
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    "figure_id": "FOS_0387",
    "figure_name": "Grass, Flower, and Fading-Life Imagery",
    "technical_name": "Grass, field flower, fading beauty, and withering-life imagery",
    "alternate_names": "grass imagery; flower imagery; fading flower imagery; withering grass imagery",
    "page_slug": "grass-flower-and-fading-life-imagery",
    "reader_category": "Mortality, frailty, fading glory, and enduring word / Grass and flower imagery",
    "bullinger_class": "Biblical imagery and motif forms",
    "simple_definition": "Grass and flower imagery uses quickly growing and quickly fading plants to picture human frailty, temporary beauty, passing wealth, and the contrast between perishing flesh and God’s enduring word.",
    "technical_definition": "A mortality-and-transience motif in which grass, field flowers, and fading blossoms contrast short-lived human splendour with divine permanence, covenant mercy, or the abiding word of God.",
    "source_hint": "Wave 32 draft-normalized plant/tree imagery review; distinguish this from Dust and Earth-Mortality Imagery by focusing on grass, flowers, withering, fading beauty, and the enduring word.",
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      "figure_name": "Grass, Flower, and Fading-Life Imagery",
      "page_slug": "grass-flower-and-fading-life-imagery",
      "reference": "Job 14:2",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "he cometh forth like a flower",
      "explanation": "The flower images human life as brief, beautiful, and quickly cut down.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized plants/trees/flowers/field-growth imagery review",
      "source_section": "Plants, Trees, Flowers, and Field-Growth Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "draft-normalized; source/context check required before publication",
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    },
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      "example_id": "EX32_0062",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0387",
      "figure_name": "Grass, Flower, and Fading-Life Imagery",
      "page_slug": "grass-flower-and-fading-life-imagery",
      "reference": "Ps. 37:2",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "soon be cut down like the grass",
      "explanation": "Grass imagery stresses the swift end of the wicked.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized plants/trees/flowers/field-growth imagery review",
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    },
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      "example_id": "EX32_0063",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0387",
      "figure_name": "Grass, Flower, and Fading-Life Imagery",
      "page_slug": "grass-flower-and-fading-life-imagery",
      "reference": "Ps. 90:5-6",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass",
      "explanation": "Grass portrays the shortness of human life under divine judgment.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "source_section": "Plants, Trees, Flowers, and Field-Growth Imagery Forms",
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0387",
      "figure_name": "Grass, Flower, and Fading-Life Imagery",
      "page_slug": "grass-flower-and-fading-life-imagery",
      "reference": "Ps. 103:15",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "his days are as grass",
      "explanation": "Grass and flower imagery frame human frailty before God’s mercy.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized plants/trees/flowers/field-growth imagery review",
      "source_section": "Plants, Trees, Flowers, and Field-Growth Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "draft-normalized; source/context check required before publication",
      "review_status": "draft_normalized"
    },
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      "example_id": "EX32_0065",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0387",
      "figure_name": "Grass, Flower, and Fading-Life Imagery",
      "page_slug": "grass-flower-and-fading-life-imagery",
      "reference": "Isa. 40:6",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "all flesh is grass",
      "explanation": "Grass contrasts perishing humanity with God’s enduring word.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized plants/trees/flowers/field-growth imagery review",
      "source_section": "Plants, Trees, Flowers, and Field-Growth Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0387",
      "figure_name": "Grass, Flower, and Fading-Life Imagery",
      "page_slug": "grass-flower-and-fading-life-imagery",
      "reference": "Isa. 40:8",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the grass withereth, the flower fadeth",
      "explanation": "Withering grass magnifies the permanence of the word of God.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0387",
      "figure_name": "Grass, Flower, and Fading-Life Imagery",
      "page_slug": "grass-flower-and-fading-life-imagery",
      "reference": "Matt. 6:30",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the grass of the field",
      "explanation": "Grass clothed by God teaches trust against anxious care.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized plants/trees/flowers/field-growth imagery review",
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      "reference": "Jas. 1:10",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "as the flower of the grass he shall pass away",
      "explanation": "The flower warns the rich about passing glory.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "1 Pet. 1:24",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "all flesh is as grass",
      "explanation": "Peter uses grass imagery to contrast flesh with the abiding gospel word.",
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      "figure_name": "Grass, Flower, and Fading-Life Imagery",
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      "reference": "Rev. 8:7",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "all green grass was burnt up",
      "explanation": "Burned grass contributes to judgment imagery in the trumpet vision.",
      "certainty": "probable",
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