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    "technical_definition": "An authority-and-access imagery pattern in which keys, opening and shutting, and binding or loosing represent stewardship, authorized access, judicial or covenantal administration, and Christ’s sovereign authority over life, death, and kingdom entrance.",
    "source_hint": "Draft-normalized kingdom authority imagery; verify against original context and avoid collapsing all key/binding texts into one ecclesiastical system.",
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      "reference": "Isa. 22:22",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "key of the house of David",
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      "reference": "Matt. 18:18",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "whatever you bind and loose",
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      "reference": "Luke 11:52",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "taken away the key of knowledge",
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      "reference": "John 20:23",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "forgive and retain sins",
      "explanation": "Judicial language expresses authorized gospel witness and accountability under the risen Christ.",
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      "reference": "Rev. 1:18",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "keys of death and Hades",
      "explanation": "Key imagery identifies Christ as sovereign over death and the realm of the dead.",
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      "reference": "Rev. 3:7",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "key of David, opens and shuts",
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      "reference": "Rev. 3:8",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "an open door which no one can shut",
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      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "key of the bottomless pit",
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