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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000002",
  "slug": "melchizedek",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/melchizedek/",
  "canonical_name": "Melchizedek",
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    "TYPE",
    "REPRESENTATIVE_PERSON"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "CHRISTOLOGICAL_TYPES",
    "OFFICES"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
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    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000002",
      "label": "Melchizedek as royal-priestly type/pattern for Christ",
      "classification": "TYPE",
      "definition": "Genesis 14 and Psalm 110 are explicitly developed in Hebrews 7 to explain Christ's superior priesthood after the order of Melchizedek.",
      "not_always": "Melchizedek is not thereby identified as the preincarnate Christ; Hebrews says he is made like the Son of God.",
      "scope_note": "Formal correspondence is chiefly office/order, titles, superiority to Levi through Abraham, and literary presentation of continuing priesthood.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000002",
          "statement": "Melchizedek is a very strongly supported person-and-office type/pattern for Christ's royal and enduring priesthood.",
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            "TYPE"
          ],
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            "OFFICE_TYPE",
            "POSITIVE_TYPE"
          ],
          "evidence_grade": 2,
          "grade_basis": "G2_EXPLICIT_LATER_CANONICAL_CORRESPONDENCE",
          "status": "VERY_STRONGLY_SUPPORTED",
          "public_wording_class": "UNQUALIFIED_TYPE",
          "scope_limitation": "Hebrews establishes likeness and priestly order; it does not identify Melchizedek ontologically with the Son of God or establish that the historical man had no parents or never died.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": null,
          "theological_intersections": [
            "CHRISTOLOGY",
            "ATONEMENT",
            "COVENANT"
          ],
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000006",
              "osis_start": "Heb.7.1",
              "osis_end": "Heb.7.3",
              "display_label": "Hebrews 7:1-3",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000007",
              "osis_start": "Heb.7.15",
              "osis_end": "Heb.7.17",
              "display_label": "Hebrews 7:15-17",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000004",
              "osis_start": "Gen.14.18",
              "osis_end": "Gen.14.20",
              "display_label": "Genesis 14:18-20",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000005",
              "osis_start": "Ps.110.4",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Psalm 110:4",
              "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": []
            },
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000004",
              "author_editor": "Dennis E. Johnson",
              "title": "Hebrews",
              "publication_data": "The Gospel Coalition Bible Commentary",
              "locator": "https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/commentary/hebrews/",
              "verification_level": "V3_CLAIM_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "SCHOLARLY_ARGUMENT"
              ],
              "locator_targets": [
                {
                  "kind": "EXTERNAL_URL",
                  "target": "https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/commentary/hebrews/"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lexeme_mappings": [
    {
      "lexeme_link_id": "TSP-LEX-000002",
      "language": "GREEK",
      "lemma_unicode": "ἀφομοιόω",
      "transliteration": "aphomoioo",
      "strongs_id": null,
      "owner_tier": "TSP_MAPPING_ONLY",
      "semantic_domain_ids": []
    }
  ],
  "canonical_relationships": [
    {
      "canonical_relationship_id": "TSP-S6-R03-P03-REL-0001",
      "title": "Melchizedek — royal/priestly correspondence to Christ",
      "canonical_statement": "Genesis 14 and Psalm 110:4 form the scriptural basis for Hebrews' royal-priestly Melchizedek correspondence to Christ. Hebrews' name/title associations and genealogical silence are inspired argumentative features, but they do not identify historical Melchizedek as eternal, uncreated, or the preincarnate Christ.",
      "canonical_action": "MERGE_MEMBER_RELATIONS_PRESERVE_PROVENANCE",
      "guardrails": [
        "Son is archetypal referent; Melchizedek is made like the Son.",
        "Genealogical silence is literary/canonical, not biological ontology.",
        "Retain S5 hard cases HEB-HC-009 and HEB-HC-010."
      ],
      "relationship_status": "CONFIRMED_REFINED"
    }
  ],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}