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    "figure_name": "Gates, Doors, Bars, and Entrance/Judgment Imagery",
    "technical_name": "Gate, door, threshold, bars, entrance, access, judgment-seat, city authority, and opened-or-shut-way imagery",
    "alternate_names": "gate imagery; door imagery; entrance imagery; bars imagery; threshold imagery; city-gate imagery",
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    "reader_category": "Access, authority, security, judgment, worship, opportunity, exclusion, and eschatological entrance / Gate imagery",
    "bullinger_class": "Supplemental biblical imagery form",
    "simple_definition": "Gate and door imagery uses entrances, bars, thresholds, open doors, or city gates to picture access, security, authority, judgment, worship, opportunity, or exclusion.",
    "technical_definition": "An access-and-authority motif in which gate, door, bars, threshold, opening, shutting, entrance, or city-gate language signifies literal entry, legal assembly, defensive strength, divine access, gospel opportunity, judgment, or final admission.",
    "source_hint": "Wave 42 draft-normalized gate/door imagery review; distinguish city-gate legal settings, temple entry, defensive gates, and metaphorical access to salvation or opportunity.",
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      "reference": "Gen. 22:17",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "possess the gate of his enemies",
      "explanation": "Gate possession pictures conquest of the enemy's seat of strength and authority.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Ruth 4:1",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "went up to the gate",
      "explanation": "The gate functions as the public legal place where redemption is witnessed.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Ps. 24:7",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Lift up your heads, O ye gates",
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      "reference": "Ps. 100:4",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Enter into his gates with thanksgiving",
      "explanation": "Gate entry pictures worshipful approach to God's presence.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Prov. 31:23",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "known in the gates",
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      "reference": "Isa. 26:2",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Open ye the gates",
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      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Matt. 7:13-14",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "strait is the gate",
      "explanation": "Gate imagery distinguishes the broad way of destruction from the narrow way of life.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Matt. 16:18",
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      "reference": "John 10:9",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "I am the door",
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      "reference": "Rev. 21:25",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the gates of it shall not be shut",
      "explanation": "Unshut gates picture secure, unrestricted glory in the new Jerusalem.",
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