X2M.209 Lectotype: The Face-to-Face Specimen
The Lectotype stage is where fragments cease to compete and one specimen is chosen as definitive. In taxonomy, a lectotype is the representative drawn out of many syntypes, fixed as the single anchor for naming and classifying a species.¹ In consecration, Lectotype functions the same way: multiple witnesses, rituals, and artifacts are narrowed to a single locus, a face-to-face where covenant is no longer dispersed but embodied.
Psalm 17 narrates this process: “I will continue beholding Your face in righteousness… I shall be satisfied when I awake in Your likeness.”² The lectotype is not theoretical but experiential — righteousness fixed in the act of beholding, satisfaction located in the unveiled face. Isaiah 5 reinforces the pattern: the vineyard was planted with choice vines, but only one definitive stock will yield justice and righteousness.³
Paul embodies this transition. He bore the marks of circumcision and blamelessness under Torah, but in Christ he came to know nothing “except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.”⁴ In other words, Paul ceased to be one fragment among many and became a living lectotype — the representative specimen of grace, carrying the treasure in jars of clay so that the surpassing power might be known as God’s alone.⁵
Lectotype, then, is the genomic stage where consecration is fixed in a reference genome. Syntype scattered the codons, but Lectotype names the strand by one exemplar. Worship becomes the act of narrowing, beholding, and fixing identity in the Face. Here Gemini’s double helix begins to stabilize: the scattered syntypes are gathered, one strand chosen as reference, and all others aligned by it.
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Footnotes
¹ Lectotype defined as the definitive specimen chosen from among syntypes to fix a species name .
² Psalm 17:15, beholding the face in righteousness as the locus of satisfaction .
³ Isaiah 5’s vineyard parable: choice vine narrowed to justice and righteousness .
⁴ Paul’s shift to knowing only Christ crucified (1 Cor. 2:2) .
⁵ Paul as lectotype of grace, bearing treasure in jars of clay (2 Cor. 4:7–15) .
