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ἐκκλησία — P.Lips. 1.43 church building/institution in episcopal arbitration

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SEMANTIC_USAGE_OCCURRENCEUSAGE_G1577_PLIPS_1_43

Competing interpretations

The noun can denote the Christian institution/community while the genitive phrase also identifies a physical church location; the record therefore retains both religious and architectural domains instead of forcing one sense.
Curation State
CURATED
Release Introduced
v44
Language
Greek
Lemma
ἐκκλησία
Strong Id
G1577
Lemma Keys
[
    "ἐκκλησία",
    "G1577"
]
Evidence Layers
[
    {
        "id": "PAPYRI",
        "role": "source_medium"
    },
    {
        "id": "EARLY_CHRISTIAN",
        "role": "historical_tradition"
    }
]
Source Ids
[
    "SRC_PAPYRI_INFO_DDBDP"
]
Source Reference
P.Lips. 1.43 (TM 33702)
Source Url
https://papyri.info/ddbdp/p.lips;1;43
Date Range
{
    "start_ce": 301,
    "end_ce": 400,
    "label": "4th century CE",
    "certainty": "catalog dating"
}
Original Language
Greek
Attested Form
ἐκκλησίας
Original Excerpt
ἐν τῷ πυλῶνι τῆς καθολικῆς ἐκκλησίας
Translation
{
    "text": "in the gateway of the catholic church",
    "responsibility": "Berean Archive working translation",
    "alignment_note": "The phrase is cited as documentary evidence; the full legal/arbitration text remains at the source."
}
Semantic Domains
[
    {
        "id": "religious_cultic",
        "role": "primary",
        "classification": "documented fact",
        "rationale": "The document names the church in an explicitly Christian episcopal context."
    },
    {
        "id": "architectural",
        "role": "secondary",
        "classification": "strong evidence",
        "rationale": "The phrase locates proceedings at the gateway of the church, showing a concrete built-space referent/context."
    },
    {
        "id": "legal_judicial",
        "role": "secondary",
        "classification": "strong evidence",
        "rationale": "The document records an arbitration/judgment involving a bishop."
    }
]
Evidence Strength
DIRECT_ATTESTATION
Context Summary
A 4th-century documentary papyrus places an arbitration at the gateway of the catholic church, showing post-New-Testament Christian institutional/building usage.
Evidence Boundary
This later documentary use is relevant to semantic history but cannot be projected backward as the meaning of a 1st-century occurrence.
Catalog Entity Id
PAPYRUS_PLIPS_1_43