Biblical Types, Symbols & Patterns
Rock
Claim-level biblical evidence review with contextual controls, canonical relationships, and preserved interpretive history.
Aliases: ROCK (shelter)
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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.
The spiritual Rock identified with Christ
Paul states that Israel drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ.
Context control: The explicit statement is controlled by 1 Corinthians 10 and its wilderness-warning context.
Paul explicitly identifies the spiritual Rock in the wilderness pattern with Christ.
Grade 1: Explicit biblical interpretationScope: The explicit identification concerns the spiritual Rock in Paul's wilderness argument; it does not establish every rock as Christ or every rock detail as a type.
Scripture
Evidence sources
- Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison — Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 2
- Eric C. Redmond — 1 Corinthians — The Gospel Coalition Bible Commentary
Struck rock as crucifixion plus water as Spirit through Christ death
The legacy proposal combines rock-striking with Christ crucified and water-flow with the Holy Spirit on the basis of Christ's death.
Context control: Treat the detailed construction as unestablished unless a canonical text makes the combined mapping.
The detailed proposal that the struck rock separately encodes Christ crucified and its water encodes the Holy Spirit flowing specifically on the basis of his death lacks sufficient canonical control.
Grade 7: Insufficient biblical evidenceScope: Retain Paul's explicit Rock-Christ identification and John's explicit living-water/Spirit interpretation separately; do not fuse them into a detailed Exodus code without textual warrant.
Strongest alternative: 1 Corinthians 10 identifies Christ as the Rock; John 7 separately interprets living water as Spirit imagery. The two facts do not by themselves establish the legacy compound mapping.
Scripture
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
- Eric C. Redmond — 1 Corinthians — The Gospel Coalition Bible Commentary
- D. A. Carson — Streams of Living Water — The Gospel Coalition
Canonical relationships
- Wilderness Rock — Christological provision correspondence: Paul's wilderness argument draws on the canonical rock-water provision tradition and explicitly identifies the Rock in his inspired correspondence as Christ.
Negative guardrails
- NEGATIVE_GUARDRAIL_INSUFFICIENT: No positive canonical type/symbol relationship is promoted beyond the source evidence: The detailed proposal that the struck rock separately encodes Christ crucified and its water encodes the Holy Spirit flowing specifically on the basis of his death lacks sufficient canonical control.
- 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: πέτρα petra — G4073
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