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tree imagery therefore recurrently ", "classification": "SIMILE", "definition": "Psalm 1 and Jesus’ fruit sayings compare individuals and their moral fruitfulness to trees, while prophetic arboreal imagery can portray imperial or national power; tree imagery therefore recurrently represents persons or corporate powers when the literary context establishes the comparison.", "not_always": "Trees are also ordinary vegetation and can support different literary images.", "scope_note": "Individual, ruler, kingdom, and nation uses are context-specific and should not be collapsed into one generic tree-code.", "claims": [ { "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001148", "statement": "Psalm 1 and Jesus’ fruit sayings compare individuals and their moral fruitfulness to trees, while prophetic arboreal imagery can portray imperial or national power; tree imagery therefore recurrently represents persons or corporate powers when the literary context establishes the comparison.", "asserted_classifications": [ "SIMILE" ], "type_kinds": [], "evidence_grade": 4, "grade_basis": "G4_RECURRENT_CANONICAL_MOTIF_OR_STRONG_THEMATIC_PATTERN", "status": "STRONGLY_SUPPORTED", "public_wording_class": "STRONGLY_SUPPORTED_PATTERN", "scope_limitation": "Individual, ruler, kingdom, and nation uses are context-specific and should not be collapsed into one generic tree-code.", "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-001127", "osis_start": "Ps.1.3", "osis_end": null, "display_label": "Psalm 1:3", "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD" }, { "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001752", "osis_start": "Matt.7.17", "osis_end": "Matt.7.20", "display_label": "Matthew 7:17–20", "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD" }, { "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001753", "osis_start": "Ezek.31.3", "osis_end": "Ezek.31.9", "display_label": "Ezekiel 31:3–9", "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-001149", "label": "Scripture does not establish the generic category “trees” as a fixed symbol of the Church or of Christ Jesus. 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