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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000451",
  "slug": "shadow",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/shadow/",
  "canonical_name": "Shadow",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "SHADOW",
    "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
    "METAPHOR"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "FESTIVALS_CALENDAR"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000141",
      "label": "Colossians 2 explicitly calls food/festival/new-moon/Sabbath observances a shadow of coming things whose reality/substan",
      "classification": "SHADOW",
      "definition": "Colossians 2 explicitly calls food/festival/new-moon/Sabbath observances a shadow of coming things whose reality/substance is Christ.",
      "not_always": "The legacy protection/covering sense is not the relevant meaning in Colossians 2; shadow has multiple literal and figurative senses.",
      "scope_note": "The legacy protection/covering sense is not the relevant meaning in Colossians 2; shadow has multiple literal and figurative senses.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000141",
          "statement": "Colossians 2 explicitly calls food/festival/new-moon/Sabbath observances a shadow of coming things whose reality/substance is Christ.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "SHADOW"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 1,
          "grade_basis": "G1_EXPLICIT_BIBLICAL_INTERPRETATION",
          "status": "REQUIRES_RECLASSIFICATION",
          "public_wording_class": "CATEGORY_OR_RECLASSIFICATION_NOTICE",
          "scope_limitation": "The legacy protection/covering sense is not the relevant meaning in Colossians 2; shadow has multiple literal and figurative senses.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "Full legacy wording remains subject to TSP-S3 unless the S2 statement exactly exhausts it.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "CHRISTOLOGY",
            "COVENANT"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000243",
              "osis_start": "Col.2.16",
              "osis_end": "Col.2.17",
              "display_label": "Colossians 2:16-17",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000091",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: S2 high-certainty anchor loci, MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison",
              "publication_data": "Text loci verified for TSP-S2 high-certainty anchor corpus, 2026-09-20",
              "locator": "https://classic.net.bible.org/",
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY",
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
              ],
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                {
                  "kind": "EXTERNAL_URL",
                  "target": "https://classic.net.bible.org/"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-001023",
      "label": "Protective shadow as a recurrent biblical metaphor",
      "classification": "METAPHOR",
      "definition": "Shadow can function metaphorically as shelter, covering, and protection under God’s care.",
      "not_always": "Protection is one recurrent shadow-metaphor, not the invariant meaning of shadow. Other passages use shadow for transience or for preliminary realities contrasted with fulfillment.",
      "scope_note": "Protection is one recurrent shadow-metaphor, not the invariant meaning of shadow. Other passages use shadow for transience or for preliminary realities contrasted with fulfillment.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001023",
          "statement": "Psalm 91:1, Psalm 121:5, and Isaiah 25:4 recurrently use shadow/shade imagery for shelter and protection, strongly supporting the legacy covering/protection sense as a bounded metaphor while the frozen Colossians 2 claim preserves the distinct shadow-versus-substance sense.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "METAPHOR"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 4,
          "grade_basis": "G4_RECURRENT_CANONICAL_MOTIF_OR_STRONG_THEMATIC_PATTERN",
          "status": "STRONGLY_SUPPORTED",
          "public_wording_class": "CANONICAL_MOTIF",
          "scope_limitation": "Protection is one recurrent shadow-metaphor, not the invariant meaning of shadow. Other passages use shadow for transience or for preliminary realities contrasted with fulfillment.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "OTHER"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001503",
              "osis_start": "Ps.91.1",
              "osis_end": "Ps.91.1",
              "display_label": "Psalm 91:1",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001504",
              "osis_start": "Ps.121.5",
              "osis_end": "Ps.121.5",
              "display_label": "Psalm 121:5",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001010",
              "osis_start": "Isa.25.4",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Isaiah 25:4",
              "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": []
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lexeme_mappings": [],
  "canonical_relationships": [
    {
      "canonical_relationship_id": "TSP-S6-R03-P03-REL-0099",
      "title": "Shadow",
      "canonical_statement": "Reclassified according to the narrower S3 adjudicated contextual sense: Colossians 2 explicitly calls food/festival/new-moon/Sabbath observances a shadow of coming things whose reality/substance is Christ.",
      "canonical_action": "PROMOTE_ADJUDICATED_P02_POSITIVE_OR_RECLASSIFIED_GROUP_AS_DISTINCT_CUMULATIVE_CLUSTER",
      "guardrails": [],
      "relationship_status": "RECLASSIFIED_CONTEXTUAL_RELATION"
    }
  ],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}