{
 "title": "The Seven Unfoldings — the heptad mapped",
 "deposit": {
  "number": 1416,
  "axn": "AXN:0599.GENERATIVE.🔥🌠👁️🛤️🧊🌉",
  "record": "https://www.alexanarch.org/s/records/1416/"
 },
 "parent": {
  "unfolding": "https://revelationfirst.com/unfolding/",
  "james_case": "https://revelationfirst.com/unfolding/james/"
 },
 "transform_classes": {
  "M": "elaborative unfolding — the seed's structure expanded, its terms retained, its ruling kept",
  "M̄": "adversarial unfolding — the seed's terms retained, its ruling negotiated or inverted; the epistle argues with its seed",
  "X": "canonical mechanism — the exchange or carriage of the letter recorded in the canon itself"
 },
 "letters": [
  {
   "id": "ephesus",
   "name": "Ephesus",
   "ref": "Rev 2:1–7",
   "epistle": "1 John",
   "heteronym": "John",
   "grade": "B+",
   "class": "M",
   "seed": [
    {
     "id": "E1",
     "name": "first love abandoned",
     "ref": "2:4",
     "greek": "tēn agapēn sou tēn prōtēn aphēkes",
     "quote": "thou hast left thy first love"
    },
    {
     "id": "E2",
     "name": "false apostles tried",
     "ref": "2:2",
     "greek": "epeirasas tous legontas heautous apostolous… kai heures autous pseudeis",
     "quote": "thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars"
    },
    {
     "id": "E3",
     "name": "remember and repeat",
     "ref": "2:5",
     "greek": "mnēmoneue oun pothen peptōkas… ta prōta erga poiēson",
     "quote": "remember therefore from whence thou art fallen… and do the first works"
    },
    {
     "id": "E4",
     "name": "tree of life promise",
     "ref": "2:7",
     "greek": "dōsō autō phagein ek tou xylou tēs zōēs",
     "quote": "To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life"
    }
   ],
   "rules": [
    {
     "id": "R-E1",
     "op": "RESTORE",
     "sig": "first love → from-the-beginning command",
     "gloss": "the abandoned prōtē agapē becomes the epistle's spine: the love-command held ap' archēs"
    },
    {
     "id": "R-E2",
     "op": "FORENSICIZE",
     "sig": "testing liars → trying spirits",
     "gloss": "the act of testing false apostles becomes a standing forensic doctrine, with the liars given their exit narrative"
    }
   ],
   "emissions": [
    {
     "rule": "R-E1",
     "from": [
      "E1",
      "E3"
     ],
     "produces": "The love held from the beginning",
     "matches": [
      {
       "ref": "1 Jn 3:11",
       "greek": "hautē estin hē angelia hēn ēkousate ap' archēs, hina agapōmen allēlous",
       "quote": "For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another",
       "note": "the FIRST love as the FROM-THE-BEGINNING love-command — firstness transposed from time-of-falling to time-of-hearing"
      },
      {
       "ref": "1 Jn 2:7",
       "greek": "entolēn palaian hēn eichete ap' archēs",
       "quote": "no new commandment… but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning",
       "note": "remember-and-repeat as doctrine: nothing new; return to the first"
      }
     ]
    },
    {
     "rule": "R-E2",
     "from": [
      "E2"
     ],
     "produces": "Trying the spirits; the liars' exit",
     "matches": [
      {
       "ref": "1 Jn 4:1",
       "greek": "dokimazete ta pneumata",
       "quote": "believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out",
       "note": "epeirasas → dokimazete: the completed act of Ephesus made a standing imperative"
      },
      {
       "ref": "1 Jn 2:19",
       "greek": "ex hēmōn exēlthan, all' ouk ēsan ex hēmōn",
       "quote": "They went out from us, but they were not of us",
       "note": "'found them liars' unfolded into the secession narrative — where the false ones went"
      }
     ]
    }
   ],
   "honesty": "The tree-of-life promise reaches 1 John only as the zōē aiōnios theme (5:11–13) — thematic, not lexical. Residue: Cain (3:12), water-blood-Spirit (5:6–8), the idols closing (5:21). Curiosity cutting against the nominal alternative: 'in Ephesus' is absent from the earliest witnesses of Ephesians (P46, ℵ*, B*)."
  },
  {
   "id": "smyrna",
   "name": "Smyrna",
   "ref": "Rev 2:8–11",
   "epistle": "James",
   "heteronym": "James",
   "grade": "A",
   "class": "M",
   "seed": [],
   "rules": [],
   "emissions": [],
   "executable": "https://revelationfirst.com/unfolding/james/",
   "honesty": "The granular executable case — nine elements, eight rules, two unique-in-canon anchors, the dōsō→epēngeilato arrow, residue displayed. Run it at the link."
  },
  {
   "id": "pergamum",
   "name": "Pergamum",
   "ref": "Rev 2:12–17",
   "epistle": "1 Corinthians 8–10",
   "heteronym": "Paul",
   "grade": "A−",
   "class": "M̄",
   "seed": [
    {
     "id": "P1",
     "name": "Satan's throne",
     "ref": "2:13",
     "greek": "hopou ho thronos tou Satana",
     "quote": "thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is",
     "gloss": "the imperial cult seat of Asia"
    },
    {
     "id": "P2",
     "name": "Antipas the witness",
     "ref": "2:13",
     "greek": "Antipas ho martys mou ho pistos",
     "quote": "Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you"
    },
    {
     "id": "P3",
     "name": "the doctrine of Balaam",
     "ref": "2:14",
     "greek": "phagein eidōlothyta kai porneusai",
     "quote": "the doctrine of Balaam… to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication"
    },
    {
     "id": "P4",
     "name": "the stumbling-block",
     "ref": "2:14",
     "greek": "balein skandalon enōpion tōn huiōn Israēl",
     "quote": "to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel"
    },
    {
     "id": "P5",
     "name": "hidden manna promise",
     "ref": "2:17",
     "greek": "dōsō autō tou manna tou kekrymmenou",
     "quote": "To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna"
    },
    {
     "id": "P6",
     "name": "white stone, new name",
     "ref": "2:17",
     "greek": "psēphon leukēn… onoma kainon gegrammenon",
     "quote": "a white stone, and in the stone a new name written"
    }
   ],
   "rules": [
    {
     "id": "R-P1",
     "op": "PERMIT⁻",
     "sig": "prohibition → permission-with-limits (adversarial)",
     "gloss": "the seed's forbidden eidōlothyta becomes the epistle's permitted-with-conscience: same term, inverted ruling"
    },
    {
     "id": "R-P2",
     "op": "COUNTER-EXEMPLIFY",
     "sig": "Balaam's incident → deployed warning",
     "gloss": "the epistle answers the charge inside itself: the same Peor fornication, cited as its own caution"
    },
    {
     "id": "R-P3",
     "op": "TYPOLOGIZE",
     "sig": "hidden manna → spiritual food",
     "gloss": "the promise-food becomes typological table-food in the same pericope"
    },
    {
     "id": "R-P4",
     "op": "GUARD",
     "sig": "stumbling-block → liberty's limit",
     "gloss": "the seed's skandalon returns as the boundary on the inverted ruling"
    }
   ],
   "emissions": [
    {
     "rule": "R-P1",
     "from": [
      "P3"
     ],
     "produces": "Idol-food, permitted with limits",
     "matches": [
      {
       "ref": "1 Cor 8:1, 8",
       "greek": "peri de tōn eidōlothytōn… brōma de hēmas ou parastēsei tō theō",
       "quote": "Now as touching things offered unto idols… meat commendeth us not to God",
       "note": "the canon's only sustained eidōlothyta treatise — and it permits (10:25 'whatsoever is sold, eat') what the seed condemns. Same term, inverted ruling: the adversarial class in one verse."
      }
     ]
    },
    {
     "rule": "R-P2",
     "from": [
      "P3"
     ],
     "produces": "The Peor fornication, deployed as warning",
     "matches": [
      {
       "ref": "1 Cor 10:8",
       "greek": "mēde porneuōmen, kathōs tines autōn eporneusan, kai epesan… eikosi treis chiliades",
       "quote": "Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand",
       "note": "Numbers 25 — Baal-Peor, Balaam's device (Num 31:16). The epistle cites the very incident the seed's charge names, while ruling differently on the food. The knot tightens: same incident, both texts."
      }
     ]
    },
    {
     "rule": "R-P3",
     "from": [
      "P5"
     ],
     "produces": "Manna as spiritual food",
     "matches": [
      {
       "ref": "1 Cor 10:3",
       "greek": "pantes to auto pneumatikon brōma ephagon",
       "quote": "and did all eat the same spiritual meat",
       "note": "the hidden manna of the promise, typologized at the same table where the idol-food question is being ruled — third element of the knot, same pericope"
      }
     ]
    },
    {
     "rule": "R-P4",
     "from": [
      "P4"
     ],
     "produces": "The stumbling-block as liberty's limit",
     "matches": [
      {
       "ref": "1 Cor 8:9",
       "greek": "mē pōs hē exousia hymōn hautē proskomma genētai",
       "quote": "take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak",
       "note": "skandalon → proskomma: the seed's accusation term becomes the epistle's own boundary on the permission it grants"
      }
     ]
    }
   ],
   "honesty": "Four seed elements land in one Corinthian pericope — the densest knot in the space. But the class is M̄: the epistle NEGOTIATES its seed, retaining every term while inverting the ruling; under Revelation-first the seed already knows the unfolding it must resist. Suggestive, not probative: the white stone's new name against the renamed apostle (the Saul→Paul mediation runs through Acts 13:9). Residue: Antipas has no Corinthian unfold (his apparatus is held at deposit #165, the Pergamon Counter-Archive); Satan's throne is frame, not lexical match."
  },
  {
   "id": "thyatira",
   "name": "Thyatira",
   "ref": "Rev 2:18–29",
   "epistle": "Philippians",
   "heteronym": "the Lydia line",
   "grade": "B−",
   "class": "M",
   "seed": [
    {
     "id": "T1",
     "name": "the increase formula",
     "ref": "2:19",
     "greek": "ta erga sou ta eschata pleiona tōn prōtōn",
     "quote": "thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience… and the last to be more than the first"
    },
    {
     "id": "T2",
     "name": "morning star promise",
     "ref": "2:28",
     "greek": "dōsō autō ton astera ton prōinon",
     "quote": "And I will give him the morning star"
    },
    {
     "id": "T3",
     "name": "hold fast till I come",
     "ref": "2:25",
     "greek": "plēn ho echete kratēsate achris hou an hēxō",
     "quote": "that which ye have already hold fast till I come"
    }
   ],
   "rules": [
    {
     "id": "R-T1",
     "op": "AMPLIFY",
     "sig": "increase formula → abounding love",
     "gloss": "last-more-than-first becomes more-and-more"
    },
    {
     "id": "R-T2",
     "op": "LUMINATE",
     "sig": "morning star → lights in the world",
     "gloss": "the star given to the overcomer becomes the assembly shining"
    }
   ],
   "emissions": [
    {
     "rule": "R-T1",
     "from": [
      "T1"
     ],
     "produces": "Love abounding more and more",
     "matches": [
      {
       "ref": "Phil 1:9",
       "greek": "hina hē agapē hymōn eti mallon kai mallon perisseuē",
       "quote": "that your love may abound yet more and more",
       "note": "the increase formula as prayer — the only letter praised for growth maps to the epistle of abounding"
      }
     ]
    },
    {
     "rule": "R-T2",
     "from": [
      "T2"
     ],
     "produces": "Lights in the world",
     "matches": [
      {
       "ref": "Phil 2:15–16",
       "greek": "phainesthe hōs phōstēres en kosmō, logon zōēs epechontes",
       "quote": "among whom ye shine as lights in the world; holding forth the word of life",
       "note": "the promised star distributed to the assembly, with the word of life in hand"
      }
     ]
    },
    {
     "rule": "R-T3",
     "from": [
      "T3"
     ],
     "produces": "Standing fast",
     "matches": [
      {
       "ref": "Phil 4:1",
       "greek": "houtōs stēkete en kyriō",
       "quote": "so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved",
       "note": "hold-fast-till-I-come as the epistle's closing embrace"
      }
     ]
    }
   ],
   "honesty": "The route runs through a person: Lydia of Thyatira, seller of purple, is the one named Thyatiran in the NT — and she founds the Philippian assembly (Acts 16:14). The letter reaches its epistle by carriage. Mediated through Acts, therefore B−. Jezebel is residue: no Philippian unfold."
  },
  {
   "id": "sardis",
   "name": "Sardis",
   "ref": "Rev 3:1–6",
   "epistle": "1 Thessalonians",
   "heteronym": "the watchful hand",
   "grade": "B",
   "class": "M",
   "seed": [
    {
     "id": "Sa1",
     "name": "the living name, dead",
     "ref": "3:1",
     "greek": "onoma echeis hoti zēs, kai nekros ei",
     "quote": "thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead"
    },
    {
     "id": "Sa2",
     "name": "watch",
     "ref": "3:2",
     "greek": "ginou grēgorōn",
     "quote": "Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain"
    },
    {
     "id": "Sa3",
     "name": "the thief",
     "ref": "3:3",
     "greek": "hēxō hōs kleptēs",
     "quote": "I will come on thee as a thief"
    }
   ],
   "rules": [
    {
     "id": "R-S1",
     "op": "ESCHATOLOGIZE",
     "sig": "the thief → the day as thief",
     "gloss": "the threat to one assembly becomes the shape of the day itself"
    },
    {
     "id": "R-S2",
     "op": "WAKE",
     "sig": "watch-command → wake/sleep doctrine",
     "gloss": "grēgoreō made the community's standing posture"
    }
   ],
   "emissions": [
    {
     "rule": "R-S1",
     "from": [
      "Sa3"
     ],
     "produces": "The day comes as a thief",
     "matches": [
      {
       "ref": "1 Thess 5:2",
       "greek": "hēmera kyriou hōs kleptēs en nykti houtōs erchetai",
       "quote": "the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night",
       "note": "the closest verbal parallel of the image in the epistles — the seed's hēxō hōs kleptēs generalized from visitation to day"
      }
     ]
    },
    {
     "rule": "R-S2",
     "from": [
      "Sa2",
      "Sa1"
     ],
     "produces": "Watch; do not sleep; the dead live",
     "matches": [
      {
       "ref": "1 Thess 5:6",
       "greek": "mē katheudōmen hōs hoi loipoi, alla grēgorōmen",
       "quote": "let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober",
       "note": "the Sardis imperative as first-person-plural ethic"
      },
      {
       "ref": "1 Thess 5:10",
       "greek": "hina eite grēgorōmen eite katheudōmen hama syn autō zēsōmen",
       "quote": "that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him",
       "note": "the living-name-dead paradox resolved: the dead who live"
      }
     ]
    }
   ],
   "honesty": "Two shared collocations, neither unique: the thief also at 2 Pet 3:10 and in the Jesus-tradition. The white-raiment element finds no Thessalonian unfold. Grade held at B."
  },
  {
   "id": "philadelphia",
   "name": "Philadelphia",
   "ref": "Rev 3:7–13",
   "epistle": "1 Thess 4:9 / Hebrews 13:1 — unresolved",
   "heteronym": "unresolved",
   "grade": "C+",
   "class": "M",
   "seed": [
    {
     "id": "Ph1",
     "name": "the open door",
     "ref": "3:8",
     "greek": "thyran ēneōgmenēn, hēn oudeis dynatai kleisai",
     "quote": "behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it"
    },
    {
     "id": "Ph2",
     "name": "little strength, word kept",
     "ref": "3:8",
     "greek": "mikran echeis dynamin, kai etērēsas mou ton logon",
     "quote": "thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word"
    }
   ],
   "rules": [
    {
     "id": "R-Ph1",
     "op": "DECLINE",
     "sig": "the letter → the declined unfolding",
     "gloss": "the epistle names the letter's subject and declines to elaborate it"
    }
   ],
   "emissions": [
    {
     "rule": "R-Ph1",
     "from": [
      "Ph2"
     ],
     "produces": "The unfolding that announces its own omission",
     "matches": [
      {
       "ref": "1 Thess 4:9",
       "greek": "peri de tēs philadelphias ou chreian echete graphein hymin",
       "quote": "But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you",
       "note": "the wittiest datum in the space: an epistle raises philadelphia by name — and declines to write it. Under the unfolding thesis: the seed kept its word so well that its elaboration is announced as unnecessary."
      },
      {
       "ref": "Heb 13:1",
       "greek": "hē philadelphia menetō",
       "quote": "Let brotherly love continue",
       "note": "not begin — CONTINUE: the imperative presupposes philadelphia already present and held"
      }
     ]
    }
   ],
   "honesty": "Split, and left split. The open door is Pauline mission idiom (1 Cor 16:9; 2 Cor 2:12; Col 4:3) — distributed, not concentrated. Possible reading: Philadelphia, the letter with no rebuke, is the seed whose unfolding is distributed rather than gathered — kept, continued, never argued. Grade C+ held; heteronym unresolved."
  },
  {
   "id": "laodicea",
   "name": "Laodicea",
   "ref": "Rev 3:14–22",
   "epistle": "Colossians",
   "heteronym": "Epaphras (the deutero-Pauline hand)",
   "grade": "A",
   "class": "X",
   "seed": [
    {
     "id": "L1",
     "name": "the Amēn, the witness",
     "ref": "3:14",
     "greek": "ho Amēn, ho martys ho pistos kai alēthinos",
     "quote": "These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness"
    },
    {
     "id": "L2",
     "name": "the beginning of creation",
     "ref": "3:14",
     "greek": "hē archē tēs ktiseōs tou theou",
     "quote": "the beginning of the creation of God",
     "gloss": "the Laodicean Christ-title"
    },
    {
     "id": "L3",
     "name": "the self-styled rich",
     "ref": "3:17",
     "greek": "legeis hoti plousios eimi… kai ouden chreian echō",
     "quote": "thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing"
    },
    {
     "id": "L4",
     "name": "white raiment for nakedness",
     "ref": "3:18",
     "greek": "himatia leuka, hina peribalē kai mē phanerōthē hē aischynē tēs gymnotētos sou",
     "quote": "white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear"
    },
    {
     "id": "L5",
     "name": "eyesalve to see",
     "ref": "3:18",
     "greek": "kollourion enchrisai tous ophthalmous sou, hina blepēs",
     "quote": "anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see"
    }
   ],
   "rules": [
    {
     "id": "R-L1",
     "op": "TITLE-TRANSFER",
     "sig": "Christ-title → hymn",
     "gloss": "the Laodicean title becomes the Colossian hymn's structure"
    },
    {
     "id": "R-L2",
     "op": "ANSWER-BY-NAME",
     "sig": "false riches → true treasures, addressed to Laodicea",
     "gloss": "the epistle answers the seed's charge with the city named inside the answer"
    },
    {
     "id": "R-L3",
     "op": "RECLOTHE",
     "sig": "white raiment → put-off/put-on",
     "gloss": "the clothing counsel becomes a sustained program"
    },
    {
     "id": "R-L4",
     "op": "EXCHANGE",
     "sig": "canonical mechanism",
     "gloss": "the canon records the letter-exchange itself"
    }
   ],
   "emissions": [
    {
     "rule": "R-L1",
     "from": [
      "L2",
      "L1"
     ],
     "produces": "The title as hymn",
     "matches": [
      {
       "ref": "Col 1:15, 18",
       "greek": "prōtotokos pasēs ktiseōs… hos estin archē, prōtotokos ek tōn nekrōn",
       "quote": "the firstborn of every creature… who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead",
       "note": "archē + ktisis as Christ-title: the Laodicean formula and the Colossian hymn share a christological collocation found essentially nowhere else — the seed's superscription unfolded into the epistle's centerpiece",
       "anchor": "unique-pair"
      }
     ]
    },
    {
     "rule": "R-L2",
     "from": [
      "L3"
     ],
     "produces": "True riches, addressed by name",
     "matches": [
      {
       "ref": "Col 2:1–3",
       "greek": "hyper hymōn kai tōn en Laodikeia… eis pan ploutos… pantes hoi thēsauroi tēs sophias",
       "quote": "for you, and for them at Laodicea… unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding… in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom",
       "note": "the self-styled rich answered with true riches — and LAODICEA IS NAMED IN THE ANSWER. The epistle addresses the seed's city inside the correction of the seed's charge."
      }
     ]
    },
    {
     "rule": "R-L3",
     "from": [
      "L4"
     ],
     "produces": "Put off, put on",
     "matches": [
      {
       "ref": "Col 3:9–12",
       "greek": "apekdysamenoi ton palaion anthrōpon… endysasthe oun",
       "quote": "seeing that ye have put off the old man… Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved…",
       "note": "the seed's clothing counsel — be clothed, hide the nakedness — sustained across a seven-verse program of undressing and dressing"
      }
     ]
    },
    {
     "rule": "R-L4",
     "from": [
      "L1"
     ],
     "produces": "The exchange, recorded",
     "matches": [
      {
       "ref": "Col 4:16",
       "greek": "kai tēn ek Laodikeias hina kai hymeis anagnōte",
       "quote": "and that ye likewise read the epistle from Laodicea",
       "note": "THE MECHANISM: the canon's one instruction depicting letter-exchange with a city of the seven. Under Revelation-first, the 'epistle from Laodicea' is not lost — it is Rev 3:14–22, and Colossians is the answering letter, reading instruction included.",
       "anchor": "mechanism"
      }
     ]
    }
   ],
   "honesty": "The strongest canonical-mechanism case, with one near-unique lexical anchor. Residue stated: the lukewarm/spew figure, the fire-tried gold, the door-knock-and-sup, and the throne promise find no Colossian unfolds — their elaborations, where they exist, are elsewhere. The eyesalve reaches Colossians only as the knowledge-and-understanding prayer (1:9; 2:2) — thematic. Heteronym: the letter names its own minister for the Lycus valley — Epaphras, 'one of you,' laboring 'for them in Laodicea' (4:12–13)."
  }
 ]
}