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          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
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      "label": "City walls as contextual image of protection and security",
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              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000141",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: TSP-S3 Batch 11 loci, MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison",
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      "not_always": "Permanence can characterize the eschatological city God provides, but it does not belong intrinsically to city language.",
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        {
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          "statement": "Scripture does not establish CITY as a fixed symbol of permanency; Hebrews explicitly says believers have no lasting city here and seek the city to come.",
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          "scope_limitation": "Permanence can characterize the eschatological city God provides, but it does not belong intrinsically to city language.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": "The legacy observation confuses the security aspiration of fortified cities and the permanence of the eschatological city with the semantic/symbolic meaning of CITY generally.",
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
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