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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000453",
  "slug": "sheep-fold",
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  "canonical_name": "Sheep (Fold)",
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    "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION"
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      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000142",
      "label": "Jesus explicitly uses sheep imagery for those who hear and follow him within the shepherd discourse.",
      "classification": "METAPHOR",
      "definition": "Jesus explicitly uses sheep imagery for those who hear and follow him within the shepherd discourse.",
      "not_always": "The sheep/people metaphor is explicit in John 10; sheep elsewhere may be literal, sacrificial, national, or proverbial.",
      "scope_note": "The sheep/people metaphor is explicit in John 10; sheep elsewhere may be literal, sacrificial, national, or proverbial.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000142",
          "statement": "Jesus explicitly uses sheep imagery for those who hear and follow him within the shepherd discourse.",
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            "METAPHOR"
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          "evidence_grade": 1,
          "grade_basis": "G1_EXPLICIT_BIBLICAL_INTERPRETATION",
          "status": "ESTABLISHED",
          "public_wording_class": "SCRIPTURE_EXPLICITLY_IDENTIFIES",
          "scope_limitation": "The sheep/people metaphor is explicit in John 10; sheep elsewhere may be literal, sacrificial, national, or proverbial.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "Full legacy wording remains subject to TSP-S3 unless the S2 statement exactly exhausts it.",
          "theological_intersections": [
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            "SOTERIOLOGY"
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            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000244",
              "osis_start": "John.10.26",
              "osis_end": "John.10.28",
              "display_label": "John 10:26-28",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000270",
              "osis_start": "Luke.12.32",
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              "display_label": "Luke 12:32",
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            }
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            {
              "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",
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                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
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    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-001026",
      "label": "Sheep/flock imagery for God’s people in distinct Israel and Christ-follower contexts",
      "classification": "METAPHOR",
      "definition": "Scripture applies sheep/flock imagery to Israel and to those gathered under Christ, while the shared image does not erase the contextual distinctions between those referents.",
      "not_always": "The metaphor identifies dependence on and relation to a shepherd; it does not by itself establish that Israel and the Church are the same covenantal entity, nor does every literal sheep passage refer to God’s people.",
      "scope_note": "The metaphor identifies dependence on and relation to a shepherd; it does not by itself establish that Israel and the Church are the same covenantal entity, nor does every literal sheep passage refer to God’s people.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001026",
          "statement": "Matthew 10:6 explicitly calls Israelites “the lost sheep of the house of Israel,” while John 10 and 1 Peter 5 apply sheep/flock language to people gathered under Christ and shepherded within the churches; the legacy association is therefore valid across distinct contexts, but the shared metaphor does not collapse Israel and the Church into one undifferentiated referent.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "METAPHOR"
          ],
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          "evidence_grade": 4,
          "grade_basis": "G4_RECURRENT_CANONICAL_MOTIF_OR_STRONG_THEMATIC_PATTERN",
          "status": "STRONGLY_SUPPORTED",
          "public_wording_class": "CANONICAL_MOTIF",
          "scope_limitation": "The metaphor identifies dependence on and relation to a shepherd; it does not by itself establish that Israel and the Church are the same covenantal entity, nor does every literal sheep passage refer to God’s people.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
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            "ECCLESIOLOGY"
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            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001510",
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              "osis_end": "Matt.10.6",
              "display_label": "Matthew 10:6",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001511",
              "osis_start": "John.10.16",
              "osis_end": "John.10.16",
              "display_label": "John 10:16",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001512",
              "osis_start": "1Pet.5.2",
              "osis_end": "1Pet.5.2",
              "display_label": "1 Peter 5:2",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
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          "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",
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                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
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            }
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        }
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  "lexeme_mappings": [],
  "canonical_relationships": [
    {
      "canonical_relationship_id": "TSP-S6-R03-P03-REL-0100",
      "title": "Sheep (Fold)",
      "canonical_statement": "Confirmed in the source-supported contextual sense: Matthew 10:6 explicitly calls Israelites “the lost sheep of the house of Israel,” while John 10 and 1 Peter 5 apply sheep/flock language to people gathered under Christ and shepherded within the churches; the legacy association is therefore valid across distinct contexts, but the shared metaphor does not collapse Israel and the Church into one undifferentiated referent.",
      "canonical_action": "PROMOTE_ADJUDICATED_P02_POSITIVE_OR_RECLASSIFIED_GROUP_AS_DISTINCT_CUMULATIVE_CLUSTER",
      "guardrails": [],
      "relationship_status": "CONFIRMED_CONTEXTUAL_RELATION"
    }
  ],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}