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    "figure_id": "FOS_0510",
    "figure_name": "Hardened Heart, Stiff Neck, and Seared Conscience Imagery",
    "technical_name": "Hardened heart, stiff neck, iron sinew, adamant stone, dull heart, seared conscience, and moral-resistance imagery",
    "alternate_names": "hardened-heart imagery; stiff-neck imagery; seared-conscience imagery; adamant-heart imagery; iron-neck imagery",
    "page_slug": "hardened-heart-stiff-neck-and-seared-conscience-imagery",
    "reader_category": "Moral resistance, stubbornness, unbelief, covenant rebellion, dullness, and judicial hardening / Hardness imagery",
    "bullinger_class": "Supplemental biblical imagery form",
    "simple_definition": "Hardened-heart imagery uses hard heart, stiff neck, iron sinew, adamant stone, or seared conscience language to picture stubborn moral resistance to God’s word.",
    "technical_definition": "A moral-resistance motif in which hardening, stiff-neckedness, iron sinew, adamant stone, dull heart, or seared conscience language signifies stubborn unbelief, covenant rebellion, judicial hardening, or conscience damaged by hypocrisy.",
    "source_hint": "Wave 44 draft-normalized hardened-heart/stiff-neck review; distinguish personal stubbornness, divine judicial hardening, corporate rebellion, dullness, and seared conscience language.",
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      "reference": "Exod. 7:13",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "he hardened Pharaoh’s heart",
      "explanation": "Hardened-heart imagery introduces Pharaoh’s resistance within God’s judgment purposes.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "draft_normalized_scripture_example",
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    },
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0510",
      "figure_name": "Hardened Heart, Stiff Neck, and Seared Conscience Imagery",
      "page_slug": "hardened-heart-stiff-neck-and-seared-conscience-imagery",
      "reference": "Exod. 8:15",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "he hardened his heart",
      "explanation": "Pharaoh’s self-hardening depicts stubborn refusal after relief from judgment.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "draft_normalized_scripture_example",
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      "include_on_page": "yes",
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    },
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      "example_id": "EX44_0093",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0510",
      "figure_name": "Hardened Heart, Stiff Neck, and Seared Conscience Imagery",
      "page_slug": "hardened-heart-stiff-neck-and-seared-conscience-imagery",
      "reference": "Deut. 10:16",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "be no more stiffnecked",
      "explanation": "Stiff-neck imagery calls Israel to stop resisting the LORD like an unyielding animal.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "draft_normalized_scripture_example",
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0510",
      "figure_name": "Hardened Heart, Stiff Neck, and Seared Conscience Imagery",
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      "reference": "2 Chron. 36:13",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart",
      "explanation": "Stiff neck and hard heart combine to portray royal rebellion against the LORD.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "draft_normalized_scripture_example",
      "source_section": "Wave 44 inner life/moral response fear/zeal/shame/joy/grief/patience/anger/desire/conscience imagery expansion",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Source/context check before final publication.",
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    },
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0510",
      "figure_name": "Hardened Heart, Stiff Neck, and Seared Conscience Imagery",
      "page_slug": "hardened-heart-stiff-neck-and-seared-conscience-imagery",
      "reference": "Ps. 95:8",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Harden not your heart",
      "explanation": "Hard-heart language warns worshipers not to repeat wilderness unbelief.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "draft_normalized_scripture_example",
      "source_section": "Wave 44 inner life/moral response fear/zeal/shame/joy/grief/patience/anger/desire/conscience imagery expansion",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
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      "example_id": "EX44_0096",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0510",
      "figure_name": "Hardened Heart, Stiff Neck, and Seared Conscience Imagery",
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      "reference": "Prov. 28:14",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief",
      "explanation": "Hardened-heart imagery contrasts reverent fear with stubborn disaster.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0510",
      "figure_name": "Hardened Heart, Stiff Neck, and Seared Conscience Imagery",
      "page_slug": "hardened-heart-stiff-neck-and-seared-conscience-imagery",
      "reference": "Isa. 48:4",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "thy neck is an iron sinew",
      "explanation": "Iron-neck imagery exposes Israel’s obstinate resistance.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "draft_normalized_scripture_example",
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      "reference": "Zech. 7:12",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "they made their hearts as an adamant stone",
      "explanation": "Adamant-stone imagery pictures refusal to hear the law and prophetic words.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Mark 3:5",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the hardness of their hearts",
      "explanation": "Hardness imagery describes hostile resistance to mercy and Sabbath truth.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "draft_normalized_scripture_example",
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      "reference": "1 Tim. 4:2",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "conscience seared with a hot iron",
      "explanation": "Seared-conscience imagery portrays moral insensibility caused by hypocritical falsehood.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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