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Dependency profile — elder son and the grumbling religious leaders

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INTERPRETATION_DEPENDENCY_PROFILEDEP_INT_LUK_15_ELDER_SON_AUDIENCE_PARALLEL
Interpretation Dependency Profile

Text Rooted Minimal Inference

Profiled target: Luke 15 — elder son and the grumbling religious leaders

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 · Core

Luke 15:1–2 explicitly frames the discourse with Pharisees and scribes grumbling that Jesus receives and eats with sinners.

Support records: LIT_LUK_15_AUDIENCE_FRAME

Premise P1

Direct Textual Data · Directly Demonstrated · Core

Luke 15:25–32 depicts the elder son becoming angry and refusing the feast after the younger son is received back.

Support records: LIT_LUK_15_UNRESOLVED_ELDER_ENDING, LIT_LUK_15_FATHER_GOES_OUT_TO_BOTH

Premise P2

Literary Inference · Strongly Supported · Bridge

The closing elder-son conflict intentionally presses the opening grumbling audience with a parallel welcome-versus-refusal dilemma.

Strong rhetorical correspondence; the narrator does not explicitly state a one-to-one identity.

Support records: LIT_LUK_15_AUDIENCE_FRAME, LIT_LUK_15_UNRESOLVED_ELDER_ENDING

Premise P3

Allegorical Correspondence · Not Demonstrated By Passage · Rejected Shortcut

Every feature of the elder son maps one-to-one onto every Pharisee or scribe.

The current Berean claim explicitly does not require this premise.

Premise P4

Dependency chain

Observe the opening grumbling over Jesus receiving sinners.
Observe the elder son refusing the father’s celebration of the restored younger son.
Infer a strong rhetorical audience parallel while withholding rigid allegorical identity.

Curated chronology

State: EARLIEST_IN_CURATED_CORPUS_ONLY

Record Id: HISTINT_LUK_15_CYRIL_SERMON107

Date Label: early 5th century

Date Sort Key: 430

Note: Cyril is the earliest currently curated witness that makes Luke 15:1–2 controlling for the two-son reading. The earliest currently curated explicit elder-son association with the scribes is Calvin (16th century). Neither statement claims historical origin. 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

What this profile does not establish

The profile does not prove that Cyril or Calvin originated the audience-parallel reading.
It does not establish a rigid one-to-one identification of the elder son with all Pharisees, scribes, Jews, or any later group.

What this does not establish

The profile does not prove that Cyril or Calvin originated the audience-parallel reading.
It does not establish a rigid one-to-one identification of the elder son with all Pharisees, scribes, Jews, or any later group.
Release Introduced
v56
Passage Id
PASSAGE_LUK_15_1_32
Status
CURATED_PUBLIC