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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000227",
  "slug": "flies",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/flies/",
  "canonical_name": "Flies",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
    "IMAGE"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "ANIMALS"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000536",
      "label": "Flies as literal insects and rhetorical imagery",
      "classification": "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
      "definition": "Canonical fly language includes literal insects and ordinary figurative comparison without intrinsically demonic identity.",
      "not_always": "The insect itself is not automatically an evil-spirit symbol.",
      "scope_note": "Preserve literal/insect imagery and assess each rhetorical use independently.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000536",
          "statement": "The Flies entry must first recognize actual flies/insect imagery rather than an intrinsic demonic symbol.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 1,
          "grade_basis": "G1_EXPLICIT_BIBLICAL_INTERPRETATION",
          "status": "REQUIRES_RECLASSIFICATION",
          "public_wording_class": "CATEGORY_OR_RECLASSIFICATION_NOTICE",
          "scope_limitation": "Preserve literal/insect imagery and assess each rhetorical use independently.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "OTHER"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000828",
              "osis_start": "Eccl.10.1",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Ecclesiastes 10:1",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000437",
              "osis_start": "Isa.7.18",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Isaiah 7:18-19",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "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": []
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000537",
      "label": "Proposed flies = evil spirits / filth of Satan’s kingdom code",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "The New Testament demonic title Beelzebul/Beelzebub does not canonically interpret actual flies as evil spirits or as filth of Satan’s kingdom.",
      "not_always": "A name used in demonic controversy is not an inspired symbol-key for the insect.",
      "scope_note": "Reject the codebook equation unless a passage itself identifies flies with demons; no such interpretation is supplied.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000537",
          "statement": "Scripture does not establish flies as a fixed symbol of evil spirits or “the filth of Satan’s kingdom.”",
          "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": "Reject the codebook equation unless a passage itself identifies flies with demons; no such interpretation is supplied.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "HAMARTIOLOGY"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000829",
              "osis_start": "Matt.12.24",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Matthew 12:24",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000828",
              "osis_start": "Eccl.10.1",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Ecclesiastes 10:1",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "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": []
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lexeme_mappings": [],
  "canonical_relationships": [],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}