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  "slug": "asleep",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/asleep/",
  "canonical_name": "Asleep",
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    "METAPHOR"
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  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
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    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000203",
      "label": "Literal sleep as bodily rest",
      "classification": "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
      "definition": "Many occurrences of sleeping/asleep simply describe ordinary bodily sleep and rest.",
      "not_always": "Literal sleep should remain distinct from metaphorical death or moral-spiritual sleep.",
      "scope_note": "Literal sleep should remain distinct from metaphorical death or moral-spiritual sleep.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000203",
          "statement": "The rest/refreshment component of the legacy entry is primarily ordinary description rather than a symbolic meaning.",
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          "evidence_grade": 1,
          "grade_basis": "G1_EXPLICIT_BIBLICAL_INTERPRETATION",
          "status": "REQUIRES_RECLASSIFICATION",
          "public_wording_class": "CATEGORY_OR_RECLASSIFICATION_NOTICE",
          "scope_limitation": "Literal sleep should remain distinct from metaphorical death or moral-spiritual sleep.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
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            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000351",
              "osis_start": "Mark.4.38",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Mark 4:38",
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            }
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              "author_editor": null,
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      ]
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    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000204",
      "label": "Sleep as a biblical metaphor/euphemism for death",
      "classification": "METAPHOR",
      "definition": "Sleep language recurrently describes the dead in contexts where resurrection is expected.",
      "not_always": "Death-as-sleep is contextual and must not be confused with passages about ordinary sleep or moral lethargy.",
      "scope_note": "Death-as-sleep is contextual and must not be confused with passages about ordinary sleep or moral lethargy.",
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        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000204",
          "statement": "Scripture recurrently uses sleep as a metaphor or euphemism for death, especially in resurrection contexts.",
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          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000352",
              "osis_start": "Dan.12.2",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Daniel 12:2",
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000353",
              "osis_start": "1Thess.4.13",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "1 Thessalonians 4:13-15",
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      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000205",
      "label": "Sleep as moral-spiritual lethargy or indifference",
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      "definition": "Sleep can also describe a morally inattentive state opposed to watchfulness and sobriety.",
      "not_always": "This sense is distinct from death-as-sleep; the surrounding exhortation must determine which sleep metaphor is in view.",
      "scope_note": "This sense is distinct from death-as-sleep; the surrounding exhortation must determine which sleep metaphor is in view.",
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        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000205",
          "statement": "The legacy association with spiritual stupor or indifference is strongly supported in exhortational contexts such as 1 Thessalonians 5 and Ephesians 5.",
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          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000354",
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              "display_label": "1 Thessalonians 5:6-7",
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000355",
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}