Biblical Types, Symbols & Patterns
Blindness
Claim-level biblical evidence review with contextual controls, canonical relationships, and preserved interpretive history.
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Evidence grades apply to individual claims, not to the headword as a whole. Strong biblical identification is kept separate from plausible or traditional interpretations, and unsupported proposals remain visible as negative evidence rather than being silently removed.
John 9 explicitly uses physical blindness and sight as the basis for a spiritual blindness/sight contrast.
John 9 explicitly uses physical blindness and sight as the basis for a spiritual blindness/sight contrast.
Context control: Spiritual blindness is explicit in this context; not every physical blindness narrative functions symbolically.
John 9 explicitly uses physical blindness and sight as the basis for a spiritual blindness/sight contrast.
Grade 1: Explicit biblical interpretationScope: Spiritual blindness is explicit in this context; not every physical blindness narrative functions symbolically.
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 relationships
- Blindness: Confirmed in the source-supported contextual sense: John 9 explicitly uses physical blindness and sight as the basis for a spiritual blindness/sight contrast.
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