{
  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000545",
  "slug": "viper",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/viper/",
  "canonical_name": "Viper",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
    "METAPHOR",
    "IMAGE"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "ANIMALS"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-001179",
      "label": "John the Baptist and Jesus explicitly address certain opponents as a “brood of vipers,” using viper imagery for dangerous, morally corrupt people under divine judgment; this is a d…",
      "classification": "METAPHOR",
      "definition": "John the Baptist and Jesus explicitly address certain opponents as a “brood of vipers,” using viper imagery for dangerous, morally corrupt people under divine judgment; this is a direct personal metaphor, not an identification of vipers with Satan or demons.",
      "not_always": "Viper imagery can characterize wicked people in explicit rebukes while other viper references remain literal.",
      "scope_note": "The metaphor targets specified wicked human hearers and their moral danger; it does not assign a demonic identity to the animal itself.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001179",
          "statement": "John the Baptist and Jesus explicitly address certain opponents as a “brood of vipers,” using viper imagery for dangerous, morally corrupt people under divine judgment; this is a direct personal metaphor, not an identification of vipers with Satan or demons.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "METAPHOR",
            "IMAGE"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 1,
          "grade_basis": "G1_EXPLICIT_BIBLICAL_INTERPRETATION",
          "status": "ESTABLISHED",
          "public_wording_class": "SCRIPTURE_EXPLICITLY_IDENTIFIES",
          "scope_limitation": "The metaphor targets specified wicked human hearers and their moral danger; it does not assign a demonic identity to the animal itself.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "HAMARTIOLOGY"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001806",
              "osis_start": "Matt.3.7",
              "osis_end": "Matt.3.10",
              "display_label": "Matthew 3:7–10",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001807",
              "osis_start": "Matt.12.34",
              "osis_end": "Matt.12.34",
              "display_label": "Matthew 12:34",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001808",
              "osis_start": "Matt.23.33",
              "osis_end": "Matt.23.33",
              "display_label": "Matthew 23:33",
              "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-001180",
      "label": "Acts 28 presents a viper as a literal snake that fastens on Paul, while Revelation explicitly identifies the “ancient serpent” with the Devil and Satan using a different controlled…",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "Acts 28 presents a viper as a literal snake that fastens on Paul, while Revelation explicitly identifies the “ancient serpent” with the Devil and Satan using a different controlled image; Scripture therefore does not establish “viper = Satan and demonic powers” as a fixed symbolic equation.",
      "not_always": "The canonical Satan-serpent identification must not be transferred automatically to every snake species or viper occurrence.",
      "scope_note": "The canonical Satan-serpent identification must not be transferred automatically to every snake species or viper occurrence.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001180",
          "statement": "Acts 28 presents a viper as a literal snake that fastens on Paul, while Revelation explicitly identifies the “ancient serpent” with the Devil and Satan using a different controlled image; Scripture therefore does not establish “viper = Satan and demonic powers” as a fixed symbolic equation.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "SYMBOL"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 7,
          "grade_basis": "G7_INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "status": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "public_wording_class": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "scope_limitation": "The canonical Satan-serpent identification must not be transferred automatically to every snake species or viper occurrence.",
          "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-001809",
              "osis_start": "Acts.28.3",
              "osis_end": "Acts.28.6",
              "display_label": "Acts 28:3–6",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001810",
              "osis_start": "Rev.12.9",
              "osis_end": "Rev.12.9",
              "display_label": "Revelation 12:9",
              "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
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lexeme_mappings": [],
  "canonical_relationships": [],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}