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          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
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      "not_always": "The humility/dependence association belongs to the expressly spiritualized phrase “poor in spirit”; literal poverty should not automatically be moralized.",
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          "scope_limitation": "The humility/dependence association belongs to the expressly spiritualized phrase “poor in spirit”; literal poverty should not automatically be moralized.",
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          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001331",
              "osis_start": "Isa.66.2",
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      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000924",
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      "classification": "MOTIF",
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      "language": "GREEK",
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