{ "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000571", "slug": "woman", "url_path": "/types-symbols/woman/", "canonical_name": "Woman", "entry_classifications": [ "APOCALYPTIC_SYMBOL", "METAPHOR", "ANALOGY", "IMAGE" ], "modules": [ "APOCALYPTIC" ], "aliases": [], "legacy_present": true, "legacy_raw_wording_public": false, "senses": [ { "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000154", "label": "Revelation 17 explicitly interprets the woman in that vision as the great city exercising rule over the kings of the ear", "classification": "APOCALYPTIC_SYMBOL", "definition": "Revelation 17 explicitly interprets the woman in that vision as the great city exercising rule over the kings of the earth.", "not_always": "The explicit interpretation contradicts a generic woman = church code; other woman imagery requires passage-specific interpretation.", "scope_note": "The explicit interpretation contradicts a generic woman = church code; other woman imagery requires passage-specific interpretation.", "claims": [ { "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000154", "statement": "Revelation 17 explicitly interprets the woman in that vision as the great city exercising rule over the kings of the earth.", "asserted_classifications": [ "APOCALYPTIC_SYMBOL" ], "type_kinds": [], "evidence_grade": 1, "grade_basis": "G1_EXPLICIT_BIBLICAL_INTERPRETATION", "status": "REQUIRES_RECLASSIFICATION", "public_wording_class": "CATEGORY_OR_RECLASSIFICATION_NOTICE", "scope_limitation": "The explicit interpretation contradicts a generic woman = church code; other woman imagery requires passage-specific interpretation.", "strongest_alternative_explanation": null, "residual_uncertainty": "Full legacy wording remains subject to TSP-S3 unless the S2 statement exactly exhausts it.", "theological_intersections": [ "ESCHATOLOGY" ], "scripture_references": [ { "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000256", "osis_start": "Rev.17.18", "osis_end": null, "display_label": "Revelation 17:18", "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" ], "locator_targets": [ { "kind": "EXTERNAL_URL", "target": "https://classic.net.bible.org/" } ] } ], "s8_wording_provenance": null } ] }, { "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-001247", "label": "Paul explicitly applies betrothed-virgin and marriage imagery to Christian congregations: he presents the Corinthians as a pure virgin betrothed to Christ, and Ephesians uses the h…", "classification": "METAPHOR", "definition": "Paul explicitly applies betrothed-virgin and marriage imagery to Christian congregations: he presents the Corinthians as a pure virgin betrothed to Christ, and Ephesians uses the husband-wife relationship as an analogy for Christ and the church. Thus bridal/virgin ecclesial imagery is biblically established in specified passages, but it does not make every symbolic woman a church.", "not_always": "Ecclesial bridal/virgin imagery is passage-specific; literal women and other symbolic women can have entirely different referents.", "scope_note": "This validates bounded church-bride/virgin imagery, not the legacy universal equation woman = true church.", "claims": [ { "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001247", "statement": "Paul explicitly applies betrothed-virgin and marriage imagery to Christian congregations: he presents the Corinthians as a pure virgin betrothed to Christ, and Ephesians uses the husband-wife relationship as an analogy for Christ and the church. Thus bridal/virgin ecclesial imagery is biblically established in specified passages, but it does not make every symbolic woman a church.", "asserted_classifications": [ "METAPHOR", "ANALOGY", "IMAGE" ], "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": "This validates bounded church-bride/virgin imagery, not the legacy universal equation woman = true church.", "strongest_alternative_explanation": null, "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.", "theological_intersections": [ "ECCLESIOLOGY", "CHRISTOLOGY" ], "scripture_references": [ { "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001937", "osis_start": "2Cor.11.2", "osis_end": "2Cor.11.2", "display_label": "2 Corinthians 11:2", "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD" }, { "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001938", "osis_start": "Eph.5.25", "osis_end": "Eph.5.32", "display_label": "Ephesians 5:25–32", "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-001248", "label": "Scripture does not establish “woman” as a fixed code for a false or harlotrous church. Revelation 17 explicitly identifies its woman as the great city, while prophetic prostitution…", "classification": "APOCALYPTIC_SYMBOL", "definition": "Scripture does not establish “woman” as a fixed code for a false or harlotrous church. Revelation 17 explicitly identifies its woman as the great city, while prophetic prostitution imagery can portray covenant infidelity of Jerusalem, Samaria, or Israel. A “false church” referent must therefore be demonstrated from a particular passage rather than supplied by the generic headword woman.", "not_always": "Harlot/prostitute imagery is assigned by context to cities or covenant communities and cannot be converted into a generic false-church code.", "scope_note": "The frozen Revelation 17:18 anchor directly blocks the universal woman = church equation; prophetic harlot imagery likewise remains passage-controlled.", "claims": [ { "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001248", "statement": "Scripture does not establish “woman” as a fixed code for a false or harlotrous church. Revelation 17 explicitly identifies its woman as the great city, while prophetic prostitution imagery can portray covenant infidelity of Jerusalem, Samaria, or Israel. 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