Biblical Types, Symbols & Patterns
Marriage
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.
Ephesians 5 explicitly applies the Genesis one-flesh marriage text as a great mystery with reference to Christ and the c
Ephesians 5 explicitly applies the Genesis one-flesh marriage text as a great mystery with reference to Christ and the church.
Context control: The Christ-church application is explicit; marriage remains a real creational institution and is not exhausted by the mystery application.
Ephesians 5 explicitly applies the Genesis one-flesh marriage text as a great mystery with reference to Christ and the church.
Grade 1: Explicit biblical interpretationScope: The Christ-church application is explicit; marriage remains a real creational institution and is not exhausted by the mystery application.
Residual uncertainty: Full legacy wording remains subject to TSP-S3 unless the S2 statement exactly exhausts it.
Scripture
Evidence sources
- Canonical Scripture: S2 high-certainty anchor loci, MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison — Text loci verified for TSP-S2 high-certainty anchor corpus, 2026-09-20
One-flesh marital union is explicitly creation-grounded
Marriage joins man and woman in the one-flesh union established in Genesis and reaffirmed by Jesus.
Context control: The one-flesh union is the actual institution of marriage; its later Christ-church mystery application does not make ordinary marriage merely symbolic.
Genesis 2:24 explicitly describes the man leaving father and mother, holding fast to his wife, and the two becoming one flesh; Jesus reaffirms this as God’s creation-grounded marital union.
Grade 1: Explicit biblical interpretationScope: The one-flesh union is the actual institution of marriage; its later Christ-church mystery application does not make ordinary marriage merely symbolic.
Residual uncertainty: No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.
Scripture
Evidence sources
- Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison — Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 1
- BibleHub lexical/verse reference — Matthew 19:5 one flesh — Accessed/verified 2026-09-20
Canonical relationships
- Husband / marriage — Christ and the church: Ephesians 5 uses the husband-wife and one-flesh marriage relation as an analogy and mystery with reference to Christ and the church, while preserving the actual ethical obligations of Christian marriage.
- Marriage: Confirmed in the source-supported contextual sense: Genesis 2:24 explicitly describes the man leaving father and mother, holding fast to his wife, and the two becoming one flesh; Jesus reaffirms this as God’s creation-grounded marital union.
Lexical mappings
These are cross-tier mappings only; lexical definitions remain owned by the site’s lexical resources.
- GREEK: γάμος gamos — G1062
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