Biblical Types, Symbols & Patterns
Lamb
Claim-level biblical evidence review with contextual controls, canonical relationships, and preserved interpretive history.
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Evidence grades apply to individual claims, not to the headword as a whole. Strong biblical identification is kept separate from plausible or traditional interpretations, and unsupported proposals remain visible as negative evidence rather than being silently removed.
Christ as Lamb of God and slain spotless lamb
The NT explicitly identifies Jesus as the Lamb of God, compares his blood with that of a spotless lamb, and presents the slain Lamb in Revelation.
Context control: The Christological lamb identification is explicit in specified NT texts; OT backgrounds must be argued individually.
Jesus is explicitly presented with sacrificial and sin-bearing Lamb imagery in the New Testament.
Grade 1: Explicit biblical interpretationScope: The claim is established for the NT identifications themselves; specific OT lamb occurrences require their own canonical controls.
Evidence sources
- Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison — Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 2
- Steven J. Cole — Who is Jesus? John 1:29-34 — Bible.org
Every biblical lamb as formal Christological type
A broad traditional extension would treat every lamb occurrence and detail as an intended type of Christ.
Context control: Retain only as a proposal where a specific canonical connection is demonstrable.
The proposal that every lamb occurrence or sacrificial-lamb detail functions as a formal type of Christ is not established by the canonical evidence.
Grade 7: Insufficient biblical evidenceScope: Explicit Christological lamb texts are retained, but universal extension to each lamb occurrence/detail is not warranted.
Strongest alternative: Many lamb passages are literal, sacrificial, pastoral, or figurative without a demonstrated Christological type relation.
Evidence sources
- Legacy Symbols & Types list supplied for TSP project — User-supplied legacy corpus
- Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison — Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 2
Canonical relationships
- Lamb: Split the source concept. Retain/reclassify the supported component: Jesus is explicitly presented with sacrificial and sin-bearing Lamb imagery in the New Testament. Exclude or limit the unsupported/contradicted component: The proposal that every lamb occurrence or sacrificial-lamb detail functions as a formal type of Christ is not established by the canonical evidence.
Negative guardrails
- EXCLUDED_OR_LIMITED_COMPONENT_OF_SPLIT_CONCEPT: Excluded/limited claim component preserved separately from the positive canonical relationship.
Lexical mappings
These are cross-tier mappings only; lexical definitions remain owned by the site’s lexical resources.
- GREEK: ἀμνός amnos — G286
- GREEK: ἀρνίον arnion — G721
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