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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000169",
  "slug": "court",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/court/",
  "canonical_name": "Court",
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    "IMAGE",
    "SYMBOL"
  ],
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    "APOCALYPTIC",
    "TABERNACLE_TEMPLE"
  ],
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  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
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      "label": "Outer court excluded from measurement and given to nations in Revelation 11",
      "classification": "IMAGE",
      "definition": "Revelation 11:2 places the outer court outside the measured sanctuary and gives it to the nations alongside a forty-two-month trampling period.",
      "not_always": "The text does not state that every court signifies exclusion or that the court itself represents the time period.",
      "scope_note": "Retain the passage-specific apocalyptic location/action without converting it into a universal code.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000415",
          "statement": "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.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
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          ],
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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": "This is a passage-specific apocalyptic scene; the court is not explicitly interpreted as a symbol of the entire tribulation period.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "ESCHATOLOGY",
            "ISRAELOLOGY"
          ],
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            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000657",
              "osis_start": "Rev.11.1",
              "osis_end": "Rev.11.2",
              "display_label": "Revelation 11:1–2",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
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              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison",
              "publication_data": "Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 1",
              "locator": null,
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
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                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
              ],
              "locator_targets": []
            },
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000160",
              "author_editor": "BibleHub lexical summary",
              "title": "Greek aule: court/courtyard",
              "publication_data": "Accessed/verified 2026-09-20",
              "locator": "https://biblehub.com/greek/833.htm",
              "verification_level": "V3_CLAIM_VERIFIED",
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        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000416",
      "label": "Proposed fixed court = exclusion/tribulation-period code",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "The inherited formula turns one Revelation scene into an intrinsic meaning for court imagery.",
      "not_always": "Temple and domestic courts occur in many ordinary contexts; Revelation 11 itself connects the court with a specific visionary action rather than giving a universal dictionary definition.",
      "scope_note": "Reject universalization beyond Revelation 11:2.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000416",
          "statement": "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.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "SYMBOL"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 7,
          "grade_basis": "G7_INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "status": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "public_wording_class": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "scope_limitation": "The Revelation 11 association should be retained without treating all court references as eschatological symbols.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "ESCHATOLOGY"
          ],
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            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000657",
              "osis_start": "Rev.11.1",
              "osis_end": "Rev.11.2",
              "display_label": "Revelation 11:1–2",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
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          "source_citations": [
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000001",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison",
              "publication_data": "Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 1",
              "locator": null,
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY",
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
              ],
              "locator_targets": []
            },
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000160",
              "author_editor": "BibleHub lexical summary",
              "title": "Greek aule: court/courtyard",
              "publication_data": "Accessed/verified 2026-09-20",
              "locator": "https://biblehub.com/greek/833.htm",
              "verification_level": "V3_CLAIM_VERIFIED",
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                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
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        }
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    {
      "lexeme_link_id": "TSP-LEX-000094",
      "language": "GREEK",
      "lemma_unicode": "αὐλή",
      "transliteration": "aulē",
      "strongs_id": "G833",
      "owner_tier": "TSP_MAPPING_ONLY",
      "semantic_domain_ids": []
    }
  ],
  "canonical_relationships": [],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}