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  "url_path": "/types-symbols/meat-offering/",
  "canonical_name": "Meat Offering",
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      "not_always": "Establish the historical sacrificial institution before testing any Christological proposal; “meat” here does not mean flesh-meat.",
      "scope_note": "Establish the historical sacrificial institution before testing any Christological proposal; “meat” here does not mean flesh-meat.",
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          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000783",
          "statement": "The KJV “meat offering” is the Levitical minḥâ/grain offering; Leviticus 2 explicitly begins with fine flour, oil, and frankincense, so the historical referent is a grain offering rather than Christ presented as human food.",
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          "scope_limitation": "The claim establishes the historical offering; it does not deny broader canonical sacrificial fulfillment in Christ.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
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            "ATONEMENT"
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      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000784",
      "label": "Proposed grain-offering Christ-as-food typology",
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      "definition": "The legacy proposal identifies the grain offering as Christ offered to God as man’s food.",
      "not_always": "Christ is explicitly an offering and sacrifice to God, but the specific grain-offering-as-man’s-food equation requires inspired canonical identification that is not supplied.",
      "scope_note": "Christ is explicitly an offering and sacrifice to God, but the specific grain-offering-as-man’s-food equation requires inspired canonical identification that is not supplied.",
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          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000784",
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          "scope_limitation": "Preserve explicit Christ-as-offering texts without converting every sacrificial detail into an independently established formal type.",
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          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
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            "ATONEMENT"
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001187",
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      "lexeme_link_id": "TSP-LEX-000199",
      "language": "HEBREW",
      "lemma_unicode": "מִנְחָה",
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      "strongs_id": "H4503",
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