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      "label": "Pearls as images of exceptional value",
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      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000894",
      "label": "Pearl gates in New Jerusalem vision",
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      "scope_note": "The vision directly describes pearl gates; any further identity of the pearls with persons or doctrines requires additional textual warrant.",
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      "lemma_unicode": "μαργαρίτης",
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