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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000014",
  "slug": "leaven",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/leaven/",
  "canonical_name": "Leaven",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "METAPHOR",
    "SYMBOL",
    "PARABLE_IMAGE"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "PLANTS_AGRICULTURE",
    "PARABLES"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
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      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000027",
      "label": "Leaven as corrupting teaching or moral influence",
      "classification": "METAPHOR",
      "definition": "Jesus and Paul use leaven imagery for corrupting teaching, hypocrisy, malice, and wickedness in specified contexts.",
      "not_always": "Leaven imagery does not automatically carry negative moral value in every passage.",
      "scope_note": "Use the negative meaning only where the text itself supplies or strongly controls it.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000027",
          "statement": "In specified passages Scripture explicitly uses leaven imagery for corrupting teaching, hypocrisy, malice, and wickedness.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "METAPHOR",
            "SYMBOL"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 1,
          "grade_basis": "G1_EXPLICIT_BIBLICAL_INTERPRETATION",
          "status": "ESTABLISHED",
          "public_wording_class": "SCRIPTURE_EXPLICITLY_IDENTIFIES",
          "scope_limitation": "The negative leaven meanings are established for these contexts, not as an automatic rule for every occurrence.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": null,
          "theological_intersections": [
            "HAMARTIOLOGY",
            "SANCTIFICATION"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000050",
              "osis_start": "Matt.16.6",
              "osis_end": "Matt.16.12",
              "display_label": "Matthew 16:6-12",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000051",
              "osis_start": "Luke.12.1",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Luke 12:1",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000052",
              "osis_start": "1Cor.5.6",
              "osis_end": "1Cor.5.8",
              "display_label": "1 Corinthians 5:6-8",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000014",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison",
              "publication_data": "Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 3",
              "locator": null,
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY",
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
              ],
              "locator_targets": []
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000028",
      "label": "Universal leaven equals evil",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "The legacy entry treats leaven as a generalized negative symbol of evil doctrine/practice/life.",
      "not_always": "Matthew 13:33 compares the kingdom of heaven to leaven, a text interpreted by many conservative commentators as pervasive kingdom growth; at minimum the passage prevents an unargued universal negative code.",
      "scope_note": "Preserve disputed parable interpretation rather than force one meaning across all leaven texts.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000028",
          "statement": "The proposal that leaven has a fixed universal biblical meaning of evil doctrine, evil practice, or sin lacks sufficient biblical evidence.",
          "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": "Negative leaven senses remain established in Matthew 16, Luke 12, and 1 Corinthians 5; Matthew 13:33 must be interpreted in its own kingdom-parable context rather than predetermined by a codebook.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": "Matthew 13:33 is commonly read as the kingdoms pervasive growth, though a minority tradition reads the leaven negatively; this interpretive dispute itself prevents an unqualified universal code.",
          "residual_uncertainty": "The exact force of leaven in Matthew 13:33 is debated among conservative interpreters; the projects conclusion is limited to rejecting an unproved universal rule.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "ESCHATOLOGY"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000053",
              "osis_start": "Matt.13.33",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Matthew 13:33",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000015",
              "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-000014",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison",
              "publication_data": "Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 3",
              "locator": null,
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY",
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
              ],
              "locator_targets": []
            },
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000020",
              "author_editor": "Douglas Sean O'Donnell",
              "title": "Matthew Commentary",
              "publication_data": "The Gospel Coalition Bible Commentary",
              "locator": "https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/commentary/matthew/",
              "verification_level": "V3_CLAIM_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "SCHOLARLY_ARGUMENT"
              ],
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                }
              ]
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          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lexeme_mappings": [
    {
      "lexeme_link_id": "TSP-LEX-000022",
      "language": "GREEK",
      "lemma_unicode": "ζύμη",
      "transliteration": "zyme",
      "strongs_id": "G2219",
      "owner_tier": "TSP_MAPPING_ONLY",
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    }
  ],
  "canonical_relationships": [],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}