November 4, 1899

Each citation is tagged with a Resonance Type. When the entry and the verse stand in any relation other than plain, the citation also carries a Relation label.

Plain

Scripture and the entry say the same thing, at the same level. The verse and the diary line simply stand together; there’s no gap to explain. This is the ordinary case, and by far the most common — roughly nine citations in ten.

Specification

The same truth, drawn finer. Scripture states it; the entry states it more exactly — the same claim brought to a sharper point. Nothing new is asserted, only something made more definite.

Relocation

The same truth, spoken in a different place. Scripture says it of the cosmos; the entry says it of the soul. Or Scripture says it of the age to come and the entry says it of now, or Scripture says it of the whole people and the entry says it of one person. The claim hasn’t changed and nothing has been added — it has simply moved its address: outward to inward, future to present, all of us to me.

Relocation covers a change of where something is said, not a change of who it is said about. When the entry attributes to a creature what Scripture attributes to Christ or to God, that is a different kind of move — it is either an extension (usually with the verse that licenses it named) or a delta. It is never filed as relocation.

Extension

The step was already taken inside the Bible. The entry reaches further than a plain reading might expect, but the reach is Scripture’s own, not the diary’s. Usually the cited verse is itself the one that makes the move. Occasionally the verse that licenses it is a different one elsewhere in the canon, and then that verse is named. Either way the extension is intra-scriptural: the entry is restating something the canon has already done.

Delta

The entry says something no cited passage says. A delta marks the place where the diary goes past what the quoted Scripture states. It is recorded plainly and left open — not defended, not dismissed, simply noted as standing apart.

The first four describe the corpus standing under Scripture or illuminating it; the last marks where it outruns what the cited text says, and the honest thing is to say so and stop there.