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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000441",
  "slug": "scapegoat",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/scapegoat/",
  "canonical_name": "Scapegoat",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
    "SYMBOLIC_ACTION",
    "ANALOGY"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "SACRIFICES",
    "CHRISTOLOGICAL_TYPES"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
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    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-001005",
      "label": "The live Day-of-Atonement goat as a Christological sin-bearing analogy",
      "classification": "ANALOGY",
      "definition": "The live goat’s divinely instituted bearing-away of Israel’s iniquities forms a contextually probable analogy to Christ’s definitive sin-bearing work, while Scripture does not explicitly name the goat as a formal Christ type.",
      "not_always": "The live goat’s removal function belongs to the specific Leviticus 16 rite. Hebrews develops Christ’s fulfillment of the Day-of-Atonement complex without explicitly identifying the live goat itself as the antitype-bearing type.",
      "scope_note": "The live goat’s removal function belongs to the specific Leviticus 16 rite. Hebrews develops Christ’s fulfillment of the Day-of-Atonement complex without explicitly identifying the live goat itself as the antitype-bearing type.",
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          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001005",
          "statement": "Because Leviticus 16 explicitly places Israel’s iniquities on the live goat and sends it away, while the New Testament presents Christ’s once-for-all atoning work and personal sin-bearing as the fulfillment toward which the Day-of-Atonement system points, reading the scapegoat as a Christological analogy of sin-bearing and removal is contextually probable; Scripture does not explicitly identify the live goat as a formal type of Christ.",
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            "SYMBOLIC_ACTION",
            "ANALOGY"
          ],
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          "evidence_grade": 5,
          "grade_basis": "G5_CONTEXTUALLY_PROBABLE",
          "status": "PROBABLE",
          "public_wording_class": "PROBABLE",
          "scope_limitation": "The live goat’s removal function belongs to the specific Leviticus 16 rite. Hebrews develops Christ’s fulfillment of the Day-of-Atonement complex without explicitly identifying the live goat itself as the antitype-bearing type.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": "The live goat may be kept at the level of Levitical ritual removal without assigning a specific Christological correspondence; Hebrews explicitly develops the Day-of-Atonement system as a whole but does not single out this live goat.",
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "CHRISTOLOGY",
            "ATONEMENT"
          ],
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            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001468",
              "osis_start": "Lev.16.21",
              "osis_end": "Lev.16.22",
              "display_label": "Leviticus 16:21–22",
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001469",
              "osis_start": "Heb.9.11",
              "osis_end": "Heb.9.14",
              "display_label": "Hebrews 9:11–14",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001470",
              "osis_start": "Heb.9.24",
              "osis_end": "Heb.9.28",
              "display_label": "Hebrews 9:24–28",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000202",
              "osis_start": "1Pet.2.24",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "1 Peter 2:24",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
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            {
              "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": []
            }
          ],
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        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lexeme_mappings": [],
  "canonical_relationships": [
    {
      "canonical_relationship_id": "TSP-S6-R03-P03-REL-0095",
      "title": "Scapegoat",
      "canonical_statement": "Retained as probable rather than explicit: Because Leviticus 16 explicitly places Israel’s iniquities on the live goat and sends it away, while the New Testament presents Christ’s once-for-all atoning work and personal sin-bearing as the fulfillment toward which the Day-of-Atonement system points, reading the scapegoat as a Christological analogy of sin-bearing and removal is contextually probable; Scripture does not explicitly identify the live goat as a formal type of Christ.",
      "canonical_action": "PROMOTE_ADJUDICATED_P02_POSITIVE_OR_RECLASSIFIED_GROUP_AS_DISTINCT_CUMULATIVE_CLUSTER",
      "guardrails": [],
      "relationship_status": "PROBABLE_CANONICAL_RELATION"
    }
  ],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}