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    "technical_definition": "A predator-and-flock motif in which wolves signify destructive hunger, disguised falsehood, tyrannical leadership, threat to the sheep, apostolic danger, or, in restoration contexts, the reversal of violent hostility under God’s peace.",
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      "reference": "Gen. 49:27",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf",
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      "reference": "Isa. 11:6",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb",
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      "reference": "Isa. 65:25",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "The wolf and the lamb shall feed together",
      "explanation": "The wolf’s changed relation to the lamb images eschatological peace.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Jer. 5:6",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them",
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      "source": "Draft-normalized animal/bird/insect imagery review",
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      "reference": "Ezek. 22:27",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "princes... like wolves ravening the prey",
      "explanation": "Wolf imagery exposes rulers who destroy lives for gain.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Zeph. 3:3",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "her judges are evening wolves",
      "explanation": "Judges are pictured as predators consuming without restraint.",
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      "reference": "Matt. 7:15",
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      "reference": "Matt. 10:16",
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      "reference": "Acts 20:29",
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