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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000499",
  "slug": "sun",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/sun/",
  "canonical_name": "Sun",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
    "SIMILE",
    "IMAGE",
    "ANALOGY",
    "MOTIF"
  ],
  "modules": [],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-001093",
      "label": "Sun imagery for extraordinary radiance and brightness",
      "classification": "SIMILE",
      "definition": "Matthew 13:43 says the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom, and Revelation 1:16 compares the glorified Christ’s face with the sun shining in full strength; these texts strongly support sun imagery for extraordinary radiance or brightness without defining the sun itself as a universal code for glory or light.",
      "not_always": "The sun is ordinarily a created luminary; radiance/glory force arises where a passage explicitly uses it as a comparison or image.",
      "scope_note": "The sun supplies comparison imagery of radiance in these contexts; ordinary references to the sun remain literal and other solar images must be interpreted locally.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001093",
          "statement": "Matthew 13:43 says the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom, and Revelation 1:16 compares the glorified Christ’s face with the sun shining in full strength; these texts strongly support sun imagery for extraordinary radiance or brightness without defining the sun itself as a universal code for glory or light.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "SIMILE",
            "IMAGE",
            "MOTIF"
          ],
          "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": "The sun supplies comparison imagery of radiance in these contexts; ordinary references to the sun remain literal and other solar images must be interpreted locally.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "CHRISTOLOGY",
            "ESCHATOLOGY"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001636",
              "osis_start": "Matt.13.43",
              "osis_end": "Matt.13.43",
              "display_label": "Matthew 13:43",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001637",
              "osis_start": "Rev.1.16",
              "osis_end": "Rev.1.16",
              "display_label": "Revelation 1:16",
              "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
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-001094",
      "label": "Celestial glory as an analogy for resurrection glory",
      "classification": "ANALOGY",
      "definition": "First Corinthians 15:41–42 explicitly compares differing celestial glories—including the glory of the sun, moon, and stars—with the resurrection of the dead; Paul uses the contrast analogically, but he does not identify the sun itself as a fixed symbol of a special class or degree of resurrected saints.",
      "not_always": "The sun is one member of Paul’s celestial comparison and should not be detached into an independent resurrection code.",
      "scope_note": "The resurrection comparison belongs to Paul’s analogy of differing kinds of glory; no hierarchy of resurrected believers is assigned to the individual luminaries in the text.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001094",
          "statement": "First Corinthians 15:41–42 explicitly compares differing celestial glories—including the glory of the sun, moon, and stars—with the resurrection of the dead; Paul uses the contrast analogically, but he does not identify the sun itself as a fixed symbol of a special class or degree of resurrected saints.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "ANALOGY",
            "IMAGE"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 1,
          "grade_basis": "G1_EXPLICIT_BIBLICAL_INTERPRETATION",
          "status": "REQUIRES_RECLASSIFICATION",
          "public_wording_class": "CATEGORY_OR_RECLASSIFICATION_NOTICE",
          "scope_limitation": "The resurrection comparison belongs to Paul’s analogy of differing kinds of glory; no hierarchy of resurrected believers is assigned to the individual luminaries in the text.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "ESCHATOLOGY",
            "ANTHROPOLOGY"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001638",
              "osis_start": "1Cor.15.41",
              "osis_end": "1Cor.15.42",
              "display_label": "1 Corinthians 15:41–42",
              "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": [],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}