Biblical Types, Symbols & Patterns
Court
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.
Outer court excluded from measurement and given to nations in Revelation 11
Revelation 11:2 places the outer court outside the measured sanctuary and gives it to the nations alongside a forty-two-month trampling period.
Context control: Retain the passage-specific apocalyptic location/action without converting it into a universal code.
Revelation 11:2 explicitly excludes the outer court from the measuring command and says it is given to the nations in the same scene that specifies forty-two months of trampling.
Grade 1: Explicit biblical interpretationScope: This is a passage-specific apocalyptic scene; the court is not explicitly interpreted as a symbol of the entire tribulation period.
Residual uncertainty: No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.
Scripture
Evidence sources
- Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison — Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 1
- BibleHub lexical summary — Greek aule: court/courtyard — Accessed/verified 2026-09-20
Proposed fixed court = exclusion/tribulation-period code
The inherited formula turns one Revelation scene into an intrinsic meaning for court imagery.
Context control: Reject universalization beyond Revelation 11:2.
Scripture does not establish “court” as a fixed symbol of exclusion from the inner place or of the tribulation period; Revelation 11:2 supplies only a bounded passage-specific association.
Grade 7: Insufficient biblical evidenceScope: The Revelation 11 association should be retained without treating all court references as eschatological symbols.
Residual uncertainty: No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.
Scripture
Evidence sources
- Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison — Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 1
- BibleHub lexical summary — Greek aule: court/courtyard — Accessed/verified 2026-09-20
Lexical mappings
These are cross-tier mappings only; lexical definitions remain owned by the site’s lexical resources.
- GREEK: αὐλή aulē — G833
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