Biblical Types, Symbols & Patterns
Adultery
Claim-level biblical evidence review with contextual controls, canonical relationships, and preserved interpretive history.
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The prophets explicitly use adultery as a metaphor for covenantal unfaithfulness and idolatrous infidelity.
The prophets explicitly use adultery as a metaphor for covenantal unfaithfulness and idolatrous infidelity.
Context control: The spiritual-adultery metaphor is strong in prophetic covenant contexts; ordinary adultery texts retain their literal ethical meaning.
The prophets explicitly use adultery as a metaphor for covenantal unfaithfulness and idolatrous infidelity.
Grade 2: Explicit later canonical correspondenceScope: The spiritual-adultery metaphor is strong in prophetic covenant contexts; ordinary adultery texts retain their literal ethical meaning.
Residual uncertainty: Full legacy wording remains subject to TSP-S3 unless the S2 statement exactly exhausts it.
Scripture
Evidence sources
- Canonical Scripture: S2 high-certainty anchor loci, MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison — Text loci verified for TSP-S2 high-certainty anchor corpus, 2026-09-20
- Canonical Scripture: TSP-S3 Batch 1 loci, MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison — Passage loci verified for TSP-S3 Batch 1, 2026-09-20
- NET Bible translators and notes — NET Bible translation and translator notes for TSP-S3 Batch 1 lexical and contextual controls — NET Bible online notes, accessed 2026-09-20
Adultery first denotes actual marital infidelity; this literal ethical meaning is not itself a symbol.
The inherited phrase "violation of marriage vows" belongs to the ordinary moral/legal meaning of adultery and should be classified separately from the prophetic covenant metaphor.
Context control: Literal adultery remains literal moral transgression; the spiritual-adultery metaphor is a distinct prophetic sense already preserved in the S2 anchor.
The inherited phrase "violation of marriage vows" belongs to the ordinary moral/legal meaning of adultery and should be classified separately from the prophetic covenant metaphor.
Grade 1: Explicit biblical interpretationScope: Literal adultery remains literal moral transgression; the spiritual-adultery metaphor is a distinct prophetic sense already preserved in the S2 anchor.
Residual uncertainty: No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.
Scripture
Evidence sources
- Canonical Scripture: TSP-S3 Batch 1 loci, MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison — Passage loci verified for TSP-S3 Batch 1, 2026-09-20
- NET Bible translators and notes — NET Bible translation and translator notes for TSP-S3 Batch 1 lexical and contextual controls — NET Bible online notes, accessed 2026-09-20
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