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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.",
  "figure": {
    "figure_id": "FOS_0240",
    "figure_name": "Tongue and Speech Imagery",
    "technical_name": "Tongue, bridled tongue, sharp tongue, lying tongue, wholesome tongue, and speech imagery",
    "alternate_names": "tongue imagery; bridled tongue imagery; lying tongue imagery; sharp speech imagery",
    "page_slug": "tongue-and-speech-imagery",
    "reader_category": "Speech power, control, and moral danger / Tongue imagery",
    "bullinger_class": "Biblical imagery and motif forms",
    "simple_definition": "Tongue and speech imagery uses the tongue as a small but powerful member to describe blessing, deceit, flattery, destruction, healing words, self-control, and the danger of ungoverned speech.",
    "technical_definition": "A speech-power motif in which the tongue represents verbal agency, destructive or healing power, deception, blessing, self-control, praise, and the moral danger of speech that is not submitted to God.",
    "source_hint": "Wave 27 draft-normalized bodily-life imagery review; distinguish from mouth/lips imagery by focusing on speech power, control, and damage.",
    "canonical_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/figures-of-speech-in-the-bible/tongue-and-speech-imagery/",
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    "publication_status": "draft_normalized",
    "page_status": "draft_normalized"
  },
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    {
      "example_id": "EX27_0091",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0240",
      "figure_name": "Tongue and Speech Imagery",
      "page_slug": "tongue-and-speech-imagery",
      "reference": "Ps. 12:3",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things",
      "explanation": "The proud tongue represents boastful, deceptive speech under judgment.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized human action/bodily-life/relational response imagery review",
      "source_section": "Human Action, Bodily-Life, and Relational Response Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; source/context check before publication.",
      "review_status": "draft_normalized"
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX27_0092",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0240",
      "figure_name": "Tongue and Speech Imagery",
      "page_slug": "tongue-and-speech-imagery",
      "reference": "Ps. 45:1",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "my tongue is the pen of a ready writer",
      "explanation": "The tongue is compared to a pen to picture fluent praise and royal proclamation.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized human action/bodily-life/relational response imagery review",
      "source_section": "Human Action, Bodily-Life, and Relational Response Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; source/context check before publication.",
      "review_status": "draft_normalized"
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX27_0093",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0240",
      "figure_name": "Tongue and Speech Imagery",
      "page_slug": "tongue-and-speech-imagery",
      "reference": "Ps. 120:2",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "deliver my soul... from a deceitful tongue",
      "explanation": "The deceitful tongue pictures destructive falsehood that endangers the righteous.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized human action/bodily-life/relational response imagery review",
      "source_section": "Human Action, Bodily-Life, and Relational Response Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; source/context check before publication.",
      "review_status": "draft_normalized"
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX27_0094",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0240",
      "figure_name": "Tongue and Speech Imagery",
      "page_slug": "tongue-and-speech-imagery",
      "reference": "Prov. 15:4",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "a wholesome tongue is a tree of life",
      "explanation": "The tongue is pictured as life-giving when speech is healing and wholesome.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized human action/bodily-life/relational response imagery review",
      "source_section": "Human Action, Bodily-Life, and Relational Response Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; source/context check before publication.",
      "review_status": "draft_normalized"
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX27_0095",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0240",
      "figure_name": "Tongue and Speech Imagery",
      "page_slug": "tongue-and-speech-imagery",
      "reference": "Prov. 18:21",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "death and life are in the power of the tongue",
      "explanation": "Tongue imagery emphasizes the profound moral consequences of speech.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized human action/bodily-life/relational response imagery review",
      "source_section": "Human Action, Bodily-Life, and Relational Response Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; source/context check before publication.",
      "review_status": "draft_normalized"
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX27_0096",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0240",
      "figure_name": "Tongue and Speech Imagery",
      "page_slug": "tongue-and-speech-imagery",
      "reference": "Isa. 50:4",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the tongue of the learned",
      "explanation": "The instructed tongue speaks timely words to the weary.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized human action/bodily-life/relational response imagery review",
      "source_section": "Human Action, Bodily-Life, and Relational Response Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; source/context check before publication.",
      "review_status": "draft_normalized"
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX27_0097",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0240",
      "figure_name": "Tongue and Speech Imagery",
      "page_slug": "tongue-and-speech-imagery",
      "reference": "Acts 2:3-4",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "cloven tongues like as of fire",
      "explanation": "Tongue imagery accompanies Spirit-enabled speech at Pentecost.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized human action/bodily-life/relational response imagery review",
      "source_section": "Human Action, Bodily-Life, and Relational Response Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; source/context check before publication.",
      "review_status": "draft_normalized"
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX27_0098",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0240",
      "figure_name": "Tongue and Speech Imagery",
      "page_slug": "tongue-and-speech-imagery",
      "reference": "James 3:5-6",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the tongue is a fire",
      "explanation": "James uses fire imagery to show the destructive power of uncontrolled speech.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized human action/bodily-life/relational response imagery review",
      "source_section": "Human Action, Bodily-Life, and Relational Response Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; source/context check before publication.",
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    },
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      "example_id": "EX27_0099",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0240",
      "figure_name": "Tongue and Speech Imagery",
      "page_slug": "tongue-and-speech-imagery",
      "reference": "James 3:8",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the tongue can no man tame",
      "explanation": "The untamed tongue is presented as restless and deadly without divine governance.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized human action/bodily-life/relational response imagery review",
      "source_section": "Human Action, Bodily-Life, and Relational Response Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; source/context check before publication.",
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    },
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0240",
      "figure_name": "Tongue and Speech Imagery",
      "page_slug": "tongue-and-speech-imagery",
      "reference": "1 John 3:18",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth",
      "explanation": "Tongue language contrasts empty verbal claim with active love in truth.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized human action/bodily-life/relational response imagery review",
      "source_section": "Human Action, Bodily-Life, and Relational Response Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; source/context check before publication.",
      "review_status": "draft_normalized"
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    "build_id": "figures_of_speech_wave46_public_pages_and_json_v1",
    "build_time_utc": "2026-05-25T16:37:54+00:00",
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}