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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000039",
  "slug": "153",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/153/",
  "canonical_name": "153",
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    "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "NUMBERS_CHRONOLOGY"
  ],
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  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
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      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000077",
      "label": "Exact fish count",
      "classification": "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
      "definition": "John explicitly records 153 great fish in the post-resurrection catch.",
      "not_always": "An exact number is not automatically symbolic.",
      "scope_note": "Start with the narrative function before later arithmetic proposals.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000077",
          "statement": "John 21:11 explicitly records 153 great fish as the catch total, but the verse itself does not supply a symbolic interpretation of the number; the legacy symbolic entry therefore requires reclassification before any proposed arithmetic meaning is considered.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION"
          ],
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          "evidence_grade": 4,
          "grade_basis": "G4_RECURRENT_CANONICAL_MOTIF_OR_STRONG_THEMATIC_PATTERN",
          "status": "REQUIRES_RECLASSIFICATION",
          "public_wording_class": "CATEGORY_OR_RECLASSIFICATION_NOTICE",
          "scope_limitation": "The count is explicit; the Grade 4 reclassification finding concerns the mismatch between a literal narrated number and an unsupported legacy symbolic headword.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": "Treat 153 first as a narrated count; consider symbolic proposals separately.",
          "residual_uncertainty": "The author may have had literary reasons for exactness, but those reasons are not explicitly interpreted.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "ESCHATOLOGY"
          ],
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            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000162",
              "osis_start": "John.21.11",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "John 21:11",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
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            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000055",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with ESV/NET comparison",
              "publication_data": "Canonical text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 8",
              "locator": null,
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                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
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              "locator_targets": []
            },
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              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000059",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "John 21 commentary - 153 fish",
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              "locator": "https://bible.org/seriespage/john-21",
              "verification_level": "V3_CLAIM_VERIFIED",
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                "SCHOLARLY_ARGUMENT"
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          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000078",
      "label": "Legacy revival/ingathering symbolism",
      "classification": "MOTIF",
      "definition": "The legacy proposes revival, ingathering, and final harvest symbolism.",
      "not_always": "John does not state that meaning; later interpreters propose different numerical systems.",
      "scope_note": "Arithmetic/traditional proposals remain below canonical evidence.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000078",
          "statement": "The legacy meaning revival/ingathering/final harvest for 153 is not established by Scripture; Augustine and other interpreters preserve distinct arithmetic readings as interpretive history, but those proposals do not constitute canonical evidence for the legacy formula.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "MOTIF"
          ],
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          "evidence_grade": 7,
          "grade_basis": "G7_INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "status": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "public_wording_class": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "scope_limitation": "Preserve later arithmetic readings as history of interpretation only.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": "The count may function as eyewitness/narrative specificity; symbolic arithmetic remains possible history, not established exegesis.",
          "residual_uncertainty": "Patristic interpreters proposed several mutually different symbolic calculations, underscoring the underdetermination.",
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            "ESCHATOLOGY"
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            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000162",
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              "osis_end": null,
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              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000056",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Legacy Symbols & Types list supplied for TSP project",
              "publication_data": "User-supplied legacy corpus",
              "locator": null,
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "INTERPRETIVE_HISTORY"
              ],
              "locator_targets": []
            },
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000060",
              "author_editor": "Augustine of Hippo",
              "title": "Tractate 122 on the Gospel of John",
              "publication_data": "NPNF / New Advent",
              "locator": "https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1701122.htm",
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
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              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000055",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with ESV/NET comparison",
              "publication_data": "Canonical text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 8",
              "locator": null,
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              "source_function": [
                "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY",
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
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              "locator_targets": []
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              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000059",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "John 21 commentary - 153 fish",
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              "locator": "https://bible.org/seriespage/john-21",
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                {
                  "kind": "EXTERNAL_URL",
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            }
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          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
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  "lexeme_mappings": [],
  "canonical_relationships": [],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}