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    "simple_definition": "Scroll, book, and writing imagery uses written records, sealed books, opened books, divine inscriptions, and scrolls to describe revelation, covenant record, judgment, memory, and divine decree.",
    "technical_definition": "A biblical record-and-revelation motif in which books, scrolls, inscriptions, sealing, opening, or eating a scroll represent covenant testimony, divine revelation, judgment records, prophetic commission, or heavenly decree.",
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      "reference": "Exod. 32:32-33",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book",
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      "reference": "Deut. 17:18",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "write him a copy of this law in a book",
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      "reference": "Ps. 40:7",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "in the volume of the book it is written of me",
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      "reference": "Ps. 56:8",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "are they not in thy book?",
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      "example_id": "EX22_0045",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0185",
      "figure_name": "Scroll, Book, and Writing Imagery",
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      "reference": "Isa. 29:11-12",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed",
      "explanation": "Sealed-book imagery portrays inaccessible revelation amid spiritual dullness.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Ezek. 2:9-3:3",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "a roll of a book",
      "explanation": "The eaten scroll symbolizes prophetic reception of God’s message before proclamation.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Dan. 7:10",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the judgment was set, and the books were opened",
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      "reference": "Zech. 5:1-4",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "a flying roll",
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      "reference": "Luke 4:17-21",
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      "reference": "Rev. 5:1-9",
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      "explanation": "The sealed scroll imagery presents the divine decree opened by the worthy Lamb.",
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