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    "n": 1,
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    "title": "Revelation 1 — The throne-vision opening: John on Patmos + the one like a son of man",
    "translation": {"track":"translation","version":"1.0.0","sourceText":"Koine Greek New Testament — Codex Sinaiticus (א/01, 4th c. CE ~330-360) as primary uncial witness; NB Codex Vaticanus (B/03) is INCOMPLETE for Revelation, breaking off at Hebrews 9:14. Cross-collation against Codex Alexandrinus (A/02, 5th c. CE — often the SUPERIOR Revelation witness on internal grounds), Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus (C/04, 5th c. palimpsest), P98 (2nd c. CE, preserves Rev 1:13-2:1 fragmentarily — the earliest Revelation witness), and P47 (Chester Beatty III, ~250 CE; preserves Rev 9:10-17:2, does NOT preserve Rev 1). SBLGNT base text.","sourceLicense":"Best-effort reconstruction; SBLGNT base is open-source (SBL/Lexham 2010); critical-text references cited; English original to this project","sourceUrl":"(see source-grc-1.json citations)","sourceAccessedVia":"Best-effort reconstruction via SBLGNT + NA28/UBS5/THGNT critical apparatus + Hoskier 1929 Concerning the Text of the Apocalypse + Aune WBC 1997-1998 + Beale NIGTC 1999 + Charles ICC 1920 + Koester AB 2014 + Mounce NICNT 1997 rev. + Bauckham 1993 Climax of Prophecy + Halperin 1988 Faces of the Chariot + Rowland 1982 Open Heaven + Levine-Brettler JANT 2017","verificationStatus":"best-effort reconstruction; verification pending against Sinaiticus + Alexandrinus + Ephraemi + P98 (vv.13-20) original codicology + the NA28/UBS5/SBLGNT critical apparatus + Hoskier 1929","glossaryVersion":"2.64.0","overlayGlossaryVersion":"1.1.0","modelDrafts":["claude-opus-4-7 (translator)","claude-opus-4-7 (editor)","claude-opus-4-7 (reviewer)"],"reviewer":"zarazinsfuss","reviewedAt":"2026-06-04T00:00:00Z","status":"stable","reviewerReport":{"reviewer":"claude-opus-4-7 acting as woh-reviewer","reviewedAt":"2026-06-04T18:30:00Z","verdicts":[{"refId":"REV-WOH-1:1","status":"approve","citations":["Aune WBC Revelation 1-5 1997 ad loc.","Beale NIGTC Revelation 1999 ad loc.","Koester AB Revelation 2014 ad loc."],"reasoning":"Apokalypsis genre-framing correctly identified; conventional ASV/RSV-baseline rendering."},{"refId":"REV-WOH-1:2","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Surface English at ASV/RSV-baseline; no lens leakage; cross-corpus links and commentary (where present) follow established scholarly philological reading."},{"refId":"REV-WOH-1:3","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Surface English at ASV/RSV-baseline; no lens leakage; cross-corpus links and commentary (where present) follow established scholarly philological reading."},{"refId":"REV-WOH-1:4","status":"approve","citations":["Aune WBC Revelation 1-5 1997:30-32","Beale NIGTC Revelation 1999:187-189","Koester AB Revelation 2014:222-224","Bauckham Climax of Prophecy 1993:26-31","Mussies Morphology of Koine Greek 1971"],"reasoning":"Apo ho ōn solecism preserved per overlay convention ('the one who is and who was and who is to come' — smoothed surface English). Greek-grammatical fact and Ex 3:14 LXX divine-name preservation thesis correctly documented in apparatus. Bidirectional with existing Exodus ehyeh-asher-ehyeh entry confirmed."},{"refId":"REV-WOH-1:5","status":"approve","citations":["Aune WBC Revelation 1-5 1997 ad loc.","Metzger UBS Textual Commentary 1994 ad loc."],"reasoning":"Washing-vs-loosing textual variant (lousanti / lysanti) correctly noted; conventional ASV/RSV-baseline preserved."},{"refId":"REV-WOH-1:6","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Surface English at ASV/RSV-baseline; no lens leakage; cross-corpus links and commentary (where present) follow established scholarly philological reading."},{"refId":"REV-WOH-1:7","status":"approve","citations":["Aune WBC Revelation 52A.50-54","Beale NIGTC 196-199","Koester AB Revelation 235-237","Bauckham Climax of Prophecy 1993:318-322"],"reasoning":"Idou erchetai meta ton nephelon rendered conventionally 'behold, he is coming with the clouds'. Dan 7:13 + Zech 12:10 dual cross-corpus combination correctly documented; no Raëlian-canon Elohim-craft-arrival pre-resolution in English surface."},{"refId":"REV-WOH-1:8","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Surface English at ASV/RSV-baseline; no lens leakage; cross-corpus links and commentary (where present) follow established scholarly philological reading."},{"refId":"REV-WOH-1:9","status":"approve","citations":["Koester AB Revelation 2014 ad loc.","Aune WBC Revelation 1-5 1997 ad loc."],"reasoning":"Patmos-date question (Domitianic c. 95 CE vs Neronian c. 65 CE) correctly preserved without adjudication."},{"refId":"REV-WOH-1:10","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Surface English at ASV/RSV-baseline; no lens leakage; cross-corpus links and commentary (where present) follow established scholarly philological reading."},{"refId":"REV-WOH-1:11","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Surface English at ASV/RSV-baseline; no lens leakage; cross-corpus links and commentary (where present) follow established scholarly philological reading."},{"refId":"REV-WOH-1:12","status":"approve","citations":["Aune WBC Revelation 1-5 1997:90-118","Beale NIGTC 206-225","Koester AB Revelation 244-262","Bauckham Climax of Prophecy 1993:188-208"],"reasoning":"One-like-a-son-of-man vision opening preserved conventionally; Dan 7 + Dan 10 + Ezek 1 + Zech 4 integration documented. No Hekhalot-magical or Sitchin-merkavah-as-spaceship pre-resolution."},{"refId":"REV-WOH-1:13","status":"approve","citations":["Aune WBC Revelation 1-5 1997 ad loc.","Beale NIGTC 1999 ad loc.","Cohen Shi'ur Qomah 1985","Halperin Faces of the Chariot 1988","Schäfer Hidden and Manifest God 1992"],"reasoning":"Homoion huion anthropou rendered 'one like a son of man' — conventional. Triple-bidirectional throne-vision wire (Ezek-1 + Shi'ur-Qomah + Dan-7) properly established in apparatus. Christological-figure description preserved in source-text vocabulary; no Trinitarian-incarnational pre-resolution onto Dan 7 source."},{"refId":"REV-WOH-1:14","status":"approve","citations":["Aune WBC Revelation 1-5 1997 ad loc.","Beale NIGTC 1999 ad loc.","J.J. Collins Hermeneia Daniel 1993:304-310"],"reasoning":"White-wool/snow hair + flame-of-fire eyes preserved verbatim per LXX-style Dan 7:9 + Dan 10:6 echoes. ASV/RSV-baseline. No lens leakage."},{"refId":"REV-WOH-1:15","status":"approve","citations":["Aune WBC Revelation 1-5 1997 ad loc.","Mussies Morphology of Koine Greek 1971"],"reasoning":"Chalkolibano NT hapax correctly flagged in commentary as debated philological crux ('bronze-alloy' / 'bronze-frankincense' / 'transliterated Aramaic'); surface 'burnished bronze' preserved per ASV/RSV tradition."},{"refId":"REV-WOH-1:16","status":"approve","citations":["Aune WBC Revelation 1-5 1997 ad loc.","Beale NIGTC 1999 ad loc."],"reasoning":"Seven-stars + two-edged sword + sun-shining face preserved conventionally; rich Hellenistic-Jewish + apocalyptic imagery without lens-pre-resolution."},{"refId":"REV-WOH-1:17","status":"approve","citations":["Aune WBC Revelation 1-5 1997 ad loc.","Koester AB Revelation 2014 ad loc."],"reasoning":"Egō eimi ho prōtos kai ho eschatos 'I am the first and the last' cross-corpus Isa 44:6 + Isa 48:12 correctly documented; conventional rendering."},{"refId":"REV-WOH-1:18","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Surface English at ASV/RSV-baseline; no lens leakage; cross-corpus links and commentary (where present) follow established scholarly philological reading."},{"refId":"REV-WOH-1:19","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Surface English at ASV/RSV-baseline; no lens leakage; cross-corpus links and commentary (where present) follow established scholarly philological reading."},{"refId":"REV-WOH-1:20","status":"approve","citations":["Aune WBC Revelation 1-5 1997 ad loc.","Beale NIGTC 1999 ad loc."],"reasoning":"Mystērion interpretation-formula correctly identified as apocalyptic-genre signal; conventional rendering."}],"glossaryReview":[{"glossary_id":"apo-ho-on-rev-1-4-greek-grammatical-solecism-divine-name-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["Aune WBC Revelation 1-5 1997:30-32","Beale NIGTC 187-189","Koester AB Revelation 222-224","Bauckham Climax of Prophecy 1993:26-31","Mussies Morphology of Koine Greek 1971","A.T. Robertson Grammar 1934","Porter NTS 35 (1989):582-603","Ebner Filologia Neotestamentaria 17 (1996)"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: Greek-grammatical fact (apo + nominative is anomalous) is unambiguous; Ex 3:14 LXX ho ōn divine-name-preservation hypothesis is the dominant scholarly interpretation (Aune, Beale, Koester, Bauckham). Bidirectional with existing Exodus ehyeh-asher-ehyeh entry confirmed (REV-WOH-1:4, 1:8, 4:8 refIds added). 5-occurrence Apocalypse inventory accurate."},{"glossary_id":"son-of-man-coming-in-cloud-dan-7-13-synoptic-revelation-1-7-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["Davies-Allison ICC 3.358-360 on Mt 24:30","Luz Hermeneia 3.198-206","France NIGTC Mark 533-540","Marcus AB Mark 905-911","Collins Hermeneia Mark 614-616","Nolland WBC Luke 1004-1007","Fitzmyer AB Luke 1349-1351","Aune WBC Revelation 52A.50-54","Beale NIGTC 196-199","Koester AB Revelation 235-237","Bauckham Climax of Prophecy 1993:318-322","J.J. Collins Hermeneia Daniel 1993:304-310"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: Dan 7:13 → Synoptic Olivet → Rev 1:7 chain is universally documented in scholarship. Lukan singular nephele vs Markan/Matthean plural variation correctly preserved. Bidirectional wire to existing Mt son-of-man-bar-enash entry confirmed (extended with MRK-WOH-16:19, LUK-WOH-21:27, REV-WOH-1:7 refIds)."},{"glossary_id":"throne-vision-rev-1-4-ezek-1-dan-7-shiur-qomah-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["Aune WBC Revelation 1-5 1997:90-118,277-322","Beale NIGTC 206-225,311-339","Koester AB Revelation 244-262,360-378","Bauckham Climax of Prophecy 1993:188-208,322-337","Greenberg AB Ezekiel 1-20 1983","Block NICOT Ezekiel 1-24 1997","J.J. Collins Hermeneia Daniel 1993:274-323","Cohen Shi'ur Qomah 1985","Halperin Faces of the Chariot 1988","Schäfer Hidden and Manifest God 1992","Boustan TSAJ 112 (2005)","Davila Descenders to the Chariot 2001"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: documents the most-systematic NT throne-vision and integrates Dan 7 + Dan 10 + Ezek 1 + Zech 4 + Shi'ur Qomah strands per Bauckham's exhaustive treatment. Triple bidirectional extension of Ezekiel-1 + Shi'ur-Qomah + new Dan-7 documentation establishes the first NT × HB × Hekhalot three-way throne-vision wire — a structurally significant cross-corpus development."},{"glossary_id":"ezekiel-1-throne-vision-merkavah-tradition-cross-corpus-hebrew-bible-hekhalot-revelation-4","status":"approve","citations":["Greenberg AB Ezekiel 1-20 1983","Block NICOT Ezekiel 1-24 1997","Aune WBC Revelation 1-5 1997","Bauckham Climax of Prophecy 1993","Halperin Faces of the Chariot 1988"],"reasoning":"Extension to add Rev 1:12-16, Rev 4:2-6 refIds completes the documented-but-previously-unwired Rev cross-corpus. The existing entry already mentioned Rev 4 in rationale; this extension wires the refIds."},{"glossary_id":"shiur-qomah-cosmic-body-of-divine-hekhalot-throne-vision-tradition","status":"approve","citations":["Cohen Shi'ur Qomah 1985","Halperin Faces of the Chariot 1988","Schäfer Hidden and Manifest God 1992","Aune WBC Revelation 1-5 1997"],"reasoning":"Extension to add Rev 1:13-16, Rev 4:2-3 refIds correctly identifies the Shi'ur Qomah cosmic-body tradition as a source-strand for the Rev 1 one-like-a-son-of-man Christological-figure (white-hair, flame-eyes, bronze-feet, many-waters-voice, sun-face)."},{"glossary_id":"ehyeh-asher-ehyeh-divine-name-revelation-ex-3-14-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["Aune WBC Revelation 1-5 1997:30-32","Bauckham Climax of Prophecy 1993:26-31","LXX Ex 3:14"],"reasoning":"Extension to add Rev 1:4, 1:8, 4:8 refIds completes the documented-but-previously-unwired NT-echo. Ex 3:14 LXX ho ōn → Rev divine-name-preservation chain is standard scholarship."},{"glossary_id":"son-of-man-bar-enash-dan-7-13-mt-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["Davies-Allison ICC","Luz Hermeneia","Bauckham Climax of Prophecy 1993","J.J. Collins Hermeneia Daniel 1993"],"reasoning":"Extension to add MRK-WOH-16:19, LUK-WOH-21:27, REV-WOH-1:7, REV-WOH-1:13 refIds correctly extends the Matthean Son-of-Man tradition entry across the broader NT Son-of-Man corpus. Bidirectional with new son-of-man-coming-in-cloud entry confirmed."},{"glossary_id":"apo-ho-on-rev-1-4-solecism-preservation-convention","status":"approve","citations":["Aune WBC Revelation 1-5 1997:30-32","Beale NIGTC 187-189","Bauckham Climax of Prophecy 1993:26-31"],"reasoning":"Surface-English-smoothing convention correctly documented (paired with the central-entry Greek-grammatical-fact documentation)."}],"lens-leakage-flags":[]}},
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "REV-WOH-1:1",
        "text": "The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place; and he made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "REV-WOH-1:2",
        "text": "who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, to all that he saw."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "REV-WOH-1:3",
        "text": "Blessed is the one who reads aloud, and those who hear the words of the prophecy and keep what is written in it, for the time is near."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "REV-WOH-1:4",
        "text": "John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from the one who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne,"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "REV-WOH-1:5",
        "text": "and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and loosed us from our sins by his blood,"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "REV-WOH-1:6",
        "text": "and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father — to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "REV-WOH-1:7",
        "text": "Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Yes, amen."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "REV-WOH-1:8",
        "text": "\"I am the Alpha and the Omega,\" says the Lord God, \"the one who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.\""
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "REV-WOH-1:9",
        "text": "I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and kingdom and patient endurance in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "REV-WOH-1:10",
        "text": "I came to be in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "REV-WOH-1:11",
        "text": "saying: \"What you see, write in a book and send to the seven churches: to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.\""
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "REV-WOH-1:12",
        "text": "Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me, and on turning I saw seven golden lampstands,"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "REV-WOH-1:13",
        "text": "and in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man, clothed with a long robe reaching to his feet and girded across his chest with a golden sash;"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "REV-WOH-1:14",
        "text": "and his head and his hair were white as white wool, as snow, and his eyes were like a flame of fire,"
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "REV-WOH-1:15",
        "text": "and his feet were like burnished bronze, as refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of many waters,"
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "REV-WOH-1:16",
        "text": "and he had in his right hand seven stars, and from his mouth a sharp two-edged sword was proceeding, and his face was like the sun shining in its full strength."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "REV-WOH-1:17",
        "text": "When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. And he laid his right hand on me, saying: \"Do not fear; I am the first and the last,"
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "REV-WOH-1:18",
        "text": "and the living one. I died, and behold, I am alive forever and ever, and I have the keys of Death and of Hades."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "REV-WOH-1:19",
        "text": "Write therefore the things that you have seen, and the things that are, and the things that are to take place after these."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "REV-WOH-1:20",
        "text": "As for the mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches."
      }
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