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    "simple_definition": "Pottery, clay, and vessel imagery uses potters, clay, jars, and vessels to describe God’s sovereignty, human creatureliness, judgment, usefulness, weakness, and consecration.",
    "technical_definition": "A creator-creature and use-purpose motif in which clay, potters, vessels, or earthenware communicate divine sovereignty, human dependence, covenant judgment, appointed purpose, fragility, or sanctified usefulness.",
    "source_hint": "Draft-normalized vessel imagery review; keep prophetic potter texts, Pauline sovereignty texts, and ministry-weakness texts in their own argument contexts.",
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      "reference": "Gen. 2:7",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the LORD God formed man of the dust",
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      "reference": "Isa. 29:16",
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      "reference": "Isa. 64:8",
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      "reference": "Jer. 18:1-6",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "as the clay is in the potter's hand",
      "explanation": "Potter imagery presents the LORD’s sovereign freedom to shape and judge nations.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Lam. 4:2",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "esteemed as earthen pitchers",
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      "reference": "Rom. 9:20-23",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the potter power over the clay",
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      "reference": "2 Cor. 4:7",
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      "reference": "2 Tim. 2:20-21",
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