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Dependency profile — Calvin Luke 15 reception

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INTERPRETATION_DEPENDENCY_PROFILEDEP_HISTINT_LUK_15_CALVIN_HARMONY
Interpretation Dependency Profile

Reception History Only

Profiled target: Calvin — returning sinners, forgiving father, and the scribes in the elder-son section

Argument-dependency analysis. This record identifies premises and inferential steps; it does not increase the target's evidence rank.

Premises

Direct Textual Data · Directly Demonstrated · Textual Base

Luke 15:1–2 frames the chapter around objections to receiving sinners.

Support records: LIT_LUK_15_AUDIENCE_FRAME

Premise P1

Literary Inference · Strongly Supported · Application

The elder-son section especially rebukes the scribal/religious objection to mercy toward returning sinners.

Support records: WORK_CALVIN_HARMONY_SYNOPTICS_VOL2

Premise P2

Typological Expansion · Not Demonstrated By Passage · Rejected Premise

The elder son represents the Jewish nation as a whole.

Calvin explicitly cautions against this broad identification.

Premise P3

Traditional Authority Premise · Rejected As Authority Shortcut · Rejected Shortcut

Reformation pedigree establishes the exegesis.

Premise P4

Dependency chain

Verify the historical work and passage-specific attribution.
Identify the textual observation(s), interpretive application(s), and any added premises in that documented reading.
Publish the profile as reception-history analysis only; require a separate current claim before assigning original-meaning weight.

Curated chronology

State: EARLIEST_IN_CURATED_CORPUS_ONLY

Record Id: HISTINT_LUK_15_CALVIN_HARMONY

Date Label: 16th century

Date Sort Key: 1555

Note: This date identifies this curated reception witness, not the historical origin of its ideas. This is not a historical-origin claim.

Not an origin claim: this records the earliest currently curated witness relevant to the profile, not the first historical occurrence.

Development threads: THREAD_LUK_15_ELDER_SON_IDENTIFICATION, THREAD_LUK_15_REPENTANCE_AND_RETURN

What this profile does not establish

The dependency profile documents how the historical reading is constructed; it does not certify the reading as Luke’s original meaning.
The interpreter’s date, office, tradition, or influence supplies no evidence weight.

What this does not establish

The dependency profile documents how the historical reading is constructed; it does not certify the reading as Luke’s original meaning.
The interpreter’s date, office, tradition, or influence supplies no evidence weight.
Release Introduced
v56
Passage Id
PASSAGE_LUK_15_1_32
Status
CURATED_PUBLIC