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      "label": "Isaiah explicitly uses the potter/clay relation as a metaphor for God and his people.",
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      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000927",
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      "definition": "Scripture recurrently speaks of God as potter and people as clay to express his formative authority as Maker; this is an explicit biblical metaphor, not a formal typological identity attached to every potter.",
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          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001337",
              "osis_start": "Rom.9.20",
              "osis_end": "Rom.9.21",
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              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
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              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000308",
              "author_editor": "BibleHub/BibleGateway reference",
              "title": "Potter/clay metaphor: Isaiah 64:8; Jeremiah 18:6; Romans 9:20-21",
              "publication_data": "Accessed/verified 2026-09-20",
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  "negative_guardrails": []
}