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    "figure_id": "FOS_0057",
    "figure_name": "Epistrophe",
    "technical_name": "Epistrophe",
    "alternate_names": "Ending repetition; Epiphora",
    "page_slug": "epistrophe",
    "reader_category": "Addition / Repetition",
    "bullinger_class": "Figures involving addition",
    "simple_definition": "Epistrophe repeats the same word or phrase at the end of successive lines, clauses, or units.",
    "technical_definition": "A figure of repetition in which successive clauses, lines, or units close with the same expression, often producing refrain-like emphasis.",
    "source_hint": "Bullinger-related repetition category; draft-normalized for site use.",
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0057",
      "figure_name": "Epistrophe",
      "page_slug": "epistrophe",
      "reference": "Ps. 136",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "for his steadfast love endures forever",
      "explanation": "The repeated closing refrain anchors every act of God in His enduring covenant love.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Curated draft",
      "source_section": "Wave 6 structural/repetition expansion",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Verify against preferred Bible text stream before final live publication.",
      "review_status": ""
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX6_0375",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0057",
      "figure_name": "Epistrophe",
      "page_slug": "epistrophe",
      "reference": "Ps. 118:1-4",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "his steadfast love endures forever",
      "explanation": "The repeated ending turns the opening summons into congregational confession.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Curated draft",
      "source_section": "Wave 6 structural/repetition expansion",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Verify against preferred Bible text stream before final live publication.",
      "review_status": ""
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX6_0376",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0057",
      "figure_name": "Epistrophe",
      "page_slug": "epistrophe",
      "reference": "Isa. 9:12,17,21; 10:4",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "his hand is stretched out still",
      "explanation": "The repeated closing line intensifies the warning that judgment has not yet exhausted divine wrath.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Curated draft",
      "source_section": "Wave 6 structural/repetition expansion",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Verify against preferred Bible text stream before final live publication.",
      "review_status": ""
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX6_0377",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0057",
      "figure_name": "Epistrophe",
      "page_slug": "epistrophe",
      "reference": "Ps. 42:5,11; 43:5",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "hope in God... my salvation and my God",
      "explanation": "The repeated refrain closes units of lament with renewed self-exhortation to hope in God.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Curated draft",
      "source_section": "Wave 6 structural/repetition expansion",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Verify against preferred Bible text stream before final live publication.",
      "review_status": ""
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX6_0378",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0057",
      "figure_name": "Epistrophe",
      "page_slug": "epistrophe",
      "reference": "Ps. 46:7,11",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "The LORD of hosts is with us",
      "explanation": "The repeated refrain closes major stanzas with covenant confidence.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Curated draft",
      "source_section": "Wave 6 structural/repetition expansion",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Verify against preferred Bible text stream before final live publication.",
      "review_status": ""
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX6_0379",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0057",
      "figure_name": "Epistrophe",
      "page_slug": "epistrophe",
      "reference": "Ps. 80:3,7,19",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Restore us... that we may be saved",
      "explanation": "The repeated plea marks successive intensifications of the same covenant appeal.",
      "certainty": "probable",
      "source": "Curated draft",
      "source_section": "Wave 6 structural/repetition expansion",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Verify against preferred Bible text stream before final live publication.",
      "review_status": ""
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX6_0380",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0057",
      "figure_name": "Epistrophe",
      "page_slug": "epistrophe",
      "reference": "Mark 9:44,46,48",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "where their worm does not die...",
      "explanation": "The repeated warning formula, especially in the traditional textual form, reinforces the terror of judgment.",
      "certainty": "disputed",
      "source": "Curated draft",
      "source_section": "Wave 6 structural/repetition expansion",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Verify against preferred Bible text stream before final live publication.",
      "review_status": ""
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX6_0381",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0057",
      "figure_name": "Epistrophe",
      "page_slug": "epistrophe",
      "reference": "Eccl. 1:2; 12:8",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Vanity of vanities",
      "explanation": "The repeated frame phrase closes the book’s main argument where it began.",
      "certainty": "probable",
      "source": "Curated draft",
      "source_section": "Wave 6 structural/repetition expansion",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Verify against preferred Bible text stream before final live publication.",
      "review_status": ""
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX6_0382",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0057",
      "figure_name": "Epistrophe",
      "page_slug": "epistrophe",
      "reference": "Rev. 2-3",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "He who has an ear...",
      "explanation": "The repeated closing admonition at the letters to the churches presses universal hearing and obedience.",
      "certainty": "probable",
      "source": "Curated draft",
      "source_section": "Wave 6 structural/repetition expansion",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Verify against preferred Bible text stream before final live publication.",
      "review_status": ""
    },
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      "example_id": "EX6_0383",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0057",
      "figure_name": "Epistrophe",
      "page_slug": "epistrophe",
      "reference": "Ps. 107:8,15,21,31",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Let them thank the LORD...",
      "explanation": "The repeated refrain closes deliverance scenes with a call to praise.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Curated draft",
      "source_section": "Wave 6 structural/repetition expansion",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Verify against preferred Bible text stream before final live publication.",
      "review_status": ""
    }
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