Biblical Types, Symbols & Patterns
Passover
Claim-level biblical evidence review with contextual controls, canonical relationships, and preserved interpretive history.
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Passover sacrifice fulfilled in Christ
Paul explicitly identifies Christ as our Passover who has been sacrificed; Johannine passion detail also reuses Passover language.
Context control: Historical Exodus function remains primary; later Christological interpretation adds fulfillment without erasing the original deliverance.
The Passover sacrifice is explicitly interpreted Christologically: Christ is our Passover who has been sacrificed.
Grade 1: Explicit biblical interpretationScope: The validated core is Christ as Passover sacrifice and the resulting redemptive/ethical application. This does not authorize a symbolic meaning for every ritual detail.
Scripture
Evidence sources
- Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison — Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 1
- Bob Utley — 1 Corinthians 5 — Bible.org
Passover blood as explicit sign
Exodus 12:13 explicitly calls the blood a sign marking the houses where Israel is protected from the judgment on the firstborn.
Context control: Distinguish explicit sign from the narrower technical category covenant sign.
The Passover blood on the houses is explicitly designated a sign of protection from the impending judgment.
Grade 1: Explicit biblical interpretationScope: This claim concerns Exodus 12:13 specifically; it should not be inflated into a universal rule for all blood imagery.
Scripture
Evidence sources
- Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison — Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 1
Passover/Unleavened Bread ethical imagery
Paul applies Passover and unleavened-bread imagery to the church's removal of tolerated evil and practice of sincerity and truth.
Context control: Meaning is local to 1 Corinthians 5 unless another passage independently supplies the same sense.
Paul explicitly reapplies Passover and Unleavened Bread imagery to church holiness: tolerated evil is old leaven, while sincerity and truth are unleavened feast imagery.
Grade 1: Explicit biblical interpretationScope: The negative leaven sense is local to 1 Corinthians 5 and related texts; leaven does not always symbolize evil.
Scripture
Evidence sources
- Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison — Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 1
- Bob Utley — 1 Corinthians 5 — Bible.org
Satan-bondage extension
The legacy list specifically states deliverance from bondage of Satan and sin.
Context control: Retain as legacy proposal but do not teach as established symbolism.
Passover specifically establishes deliverance from bondage to Satan as one of its intended typological meanings.
Grade 7: Insufficient biblical evidenceScope: Passover clearly concerns deliverance from judgment and Egypt, and Christ's Passover sacrifice concerns salvation from sin; the Satan-specific equation is not explicitly made in the controlling Passover texts.
Strongest alternative: The controlling NT use is sacrificial and ethical, while Exodus itself describes historical deliverance from Egypt and judgment.
Residual uncertainty: A broader biblical theology of deliverance from the dominion of darkness exists, but it is not enough by itself to establish this specific Passover symbol.
Scripture
Evidence sources
- Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison — Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 1
- Legacy Symbols & Types list supplied for TSP project — User-supplied legacy corpus
Canonical relationships
- Passover — Christ sacrificed and unleavened holiness: 1 Corinthians 5 explicitly identifies Christ as the church's Passover sacrifice and extends unleavened-bread imagery to removal of tolerated evil and the practice of sincerity and truth.
- Passover — unbroken bones at Jesus' death: John 19:36 strongly reuses the unbroken-bones Scripture in a Passover context; Exodus 12:46 / Numbers 9:12 and Psalm 34:20 must remain jointly available rather than asserting one exclusive source.
Lexical mappings
These are cross-tier mappings only; lexical definitions remain owned by the site’s lexical resources.
- HEBREW: פֶּסַח pesach — H6453
- GREEK: πάσχα pascha — G3957
- HEBREW: אוֹת ot — H226
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