Core Glossary
Core Glossary — 2 Thessalonians (English → Assamese)
How to read this table
- Status: [REUSED] = already established in the Romans baseline
translation_memory.json; enforce exactly. [NEW] = introduced by this curriculum; proposed rendering pending sign-off. - Risk: Critical / High / Medium / Low, per the doctrine_risk_registry.json risk framework.
- Doctrine: which of the five curriculum doctrines (Day of the Lord / Man of Lawlessness / Perseverance under Persecution / God’s Righteous Judgment / Standing Firm in the Traditions) or carried-over Romans doctrine the term serves.
- Chapter references indicate every chapter in which the term is load-bearing.
Consolidated Glossary Table
| # | English term | Greek (transliteration) | Assamese rendering (transliteration) | Status | Risk | Doctrine | Chapters | Rejected alternatives / notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | God | θεός (theos) | ঈশ্বৰ (Iswôr) | [REUSED] | Critical | God | 1,2,3 | Never ভগৱান/পৰমেশ্বৰ |
| 2 | Lord | κύριος (kyrios) | প্ৰভু (prôbhu) | [REUSED] | Critical | Lordship of Christ | 1,2,3 | Never স্বামী/ঈশ্বৰ alone |
| 3 | Jesus | Ἰησοῦς (Iēsous) | যীচু (Yisu) | [REUSED] | Critical | Lordship of Christ | 1,2 | Never ঈছা |
| 4 | Christ | Χριστός (Christos) | খ্ৰীষ্ট (Khristo) | [REUSED — per 12_ai_translation_requirements.md transliteration standard] | Critical | Messianic Promise | 1,2,3 | Distinct from মচীহ (Messiah, title) |
| 5 | Holy Spirit | Πνεῦμα Ἅγιον (Pneuma Hagion) | পবিত্ৰ আত্মা (pobitrô atma) | [REUSED] | Critical | Sanctification | 2 | Never ব্ৰহ্ম/পৰমাত্মা; distinguish from “a spirit” (2:2) and “breath” (2:8), same lexeme πνεῦμα |
| 6 | church | ἐκκλησία (ekklēsia) | মণ্ডলী (môndoli) | [REUSED] | Medium | Church as God’s People | 1 | Never নামঘৰ/মন্দিৰ |
| 7 | grace | χάρις (charis) | অনুগ্ৰহ (anugrôh) | [REUSED] | High | Grace | 1,3 | Never কৃপা/বৰ in salvific sense |
| 8 | peace | εἰρήνη (eirēnē) | শান্তি (xanti) | [REUSED] | Medium | Peace with God | 1,3 | Distinguish from meditative/naam-kirtan calm |
| 9 | faith / believe | πίστις / πιστεύω (pistis / pisteuō) | বিশ্বাস (biswax) | [REUSED] | High | Faith | 1,2 | Object must be recoverable; contrast positive (2:13) vs. false-object (2:11-12) uses |
| 10 | gospel | εὐαγγέλιον (euangelion) | সুসমাচাৰ (xusomacar) | [REUSED] | High | Gospel | 1,2 | Never ভাল খবৰ |
| 11 | saints | ἅγιοι (hagioi) | পবিত্ৰ লোক (pobitrô lok) | [REUSED] | High | Sainthood | 1 | Never সন্ত/ভক্ত |
| 12 | glory | δόξα (doxa) | মহিমা (môhima) | [REUSED] | High | Deity of Christ | 1,2 | Avoid tej/prabha light-imagery |
| 13 | sanctification | ἁγιασμός (hagiasmos) | পবিত্ৰীকৰণ (pobitrikoron) | [REUSED] | High | Sanctification | 2 | Never সংস্কাৰ |
| 14 | called / calling | κλῆσις (klēsis) | মতনি (motoni) | [REUSED] | High | Divine Calling | 1 | Never আমন্ত্ৰণ |
| 15 | election / chosen | ἐκλογή concept (heileto, “chose”) | ঈশ্বৰৰ মনোনয়ন (Iswôror monônoyon) | [REUSED] | High | Effectual Calling | 2 | Never ভাগ্য/কপাল/নিয়তি |
| 16 | power of God | δύναμις θεοῦ (dynamis theou) | ঈশ্বৰৰ শক্তি (Iswôror xôkti) | [REUSED, positive sense] | High | Power of God | 1 | Always paired with ঈশ্বৰৰ when the referent is God |
| 17 | power (Satan’s, unpaired) | δύναμις (dynamis) | শক্তি (xôkti) | [NEW sense of existing root] | High | Man of Lawlessness | 2 | Must NOT pair with ঈশ্বৰৰ; derivative, limited, permitted power only |
| 18 | Satan | Σατανᾶς (Satanas) | শয়তান (xôyôtan) | [NEW] | Medium | Man of Lawlessness | 2 | Personal adversary, not impersonal evil-principle |
| 19 | coming (of Christ) | παρουσία (parousia) | আগমন (agômôn) | [NEW] | Critical | Day of the Lord | 2 | Never conflated with avatar-descent pattern; same word ironically reused for the lawless one’s counterfeit “coming” (2:9) — retain identical rendering with mandatory disambiguating note |
| 20 | Day of the Lord | ἡμέρα τοῦ Κυρίου (hēmera tou Kyriou) | প্ৰভুৰ দিন (prôbhur din) | [NEW] | Critical | Day of the Lord | 2 | Never equated with cyclical yuga-end/pralaya; single, unrepeatable event |
| 21 | gathered together | ἐπισυναγωγή (episynagōgē) | একত্ৰীকৰণ (ekôtrikôron) | [NEW] | Medium | Day of the Lord | 2 | Eschatological gathering to Christ; not the ordinary “meeting” sense |
| 22 | rebellion / apostasy | ἀποστασία (apostasia) | বিশ্বাসত্যাগ (biswaxtyag) | [NEW] | Critical | Day of the Lord / Man of Lawlessness | 2 | Never ধৰ্মত্যাগ (avoid ধৰ্ম root); distinct from general inter-religious conversion |
| 23 | man of lawlessness | ὁ ἄνθρωπος τῆς ἀνομίας (ho anthrōpos tēs anomias) | বিধানহীনতাৰ মানুহ (bidhanhinôtar manuh) | [NEW] | Critical | Man of Lawlessness | 2 | Textual variant “man of sin” noted; never render with ধৰ্ম root |
| 24 | lawlessness | ἀνομία (anomia) | বিধানহীনতা (bidhanhinôta) | [NEW] | Critical | Man of Lawlessness | 2 | Never অধৰ্ম (already rejected in Romans TM for “sin”); built on established বিধান (Law) root |
| 25 | son of destruction / perdition | ὁ υἱὸς τῆς ἀπωλείας (ho huios tēs apōleias) | বিনাশৰ পুত্ৰ (binaxor putrô) | [NEW] | High | Man of Lawlessness | 2 | Hebraic idiom; do not confuse with ঈশ্বৰৰ পুত্ৰ (Son of God, ontological, Critical) |
| 26 | mystery of lawlessness | μυστήριον τῆς ἀνομίας (mystērion tēs anomias) | বিধানহীনতাৰ ৰহস্য (bidhanhinôtar rôhôxyô) | [NEW] | High | Man of Lawlessness | 2 | Distinguish from occult/tantric “rahasya” secret-knowledge traditions |
| 27 | restrainer / what restrains | ὁ κατέχων / τὸ κατέχον (ho katechōn / to katechon) | ৰোধ কৰি থকা শক্তি/জন (rodh kôri thôka xôkti/jôn) | [NEW] | High | Man of Lawlessness | 2 | Preserve source-text ambiguity (personal vs. impersonal); do not resolve in translation |
| 28 | revealed (of the lawless one) | ἀποκαλύπτω (apokalyptō) | প্ৰকাশিত হ’ব (prôkaxitô hôba) | [NEW] | Medium | Man of Lawlessness | 2 | Keep identical across all 3 occurrences (vv.3,6,8) |
| 29 | temple of God | ναὸς τοῦ θεοῦ (naos tou theou) | ঈশ্বৰৰ মন্দিৰ (Iswôror mondir) | [NEW] | High | Man of Lawlessness | 2 | Literal sanctuary referent, distinct from ekklesia’s rejection of মন্দিৰ; mandatory disambiguating note every occurrence |
| 30 | exalts himself | ὑπεραίρεται (hyperairetai) | নিজকে উচ্চ পাতে (nijôke ucco pate) | [NEW] | High | Deity of Christ (counterfeit) | 2 | Self-deifying arrogance; do not phrase to legitimize any human deification claim |
| 31 | proclaims himself god | ἀποδεικνύντα ἑαυτὸν ὅτι ἔστιν θεός | নিজকে ঈশ্বৰ বুলি প্ৰকাশ কৰা | [NEW] | Critical | Deity of Christ (counterfeit) | 2 | Counterfeit of the true Deity of Christ doctrine; render as clearly illegitimate |
| 32 | appearing of his coming | ἐπιφάνεια τῆς παρουσίας (epiphaneia tēs parousias) | তেৰ আগমনৰ প্ৰকাশ (agômônor prôkax) | [NEW] | High | Day of the Lord | 2 | Distinct from দেহধাৰণ (incarnation); Christ’s glorious return, not his first coming |
| 33 | wicked deception | ἀπάτη ἀδικίας (apatē adikias) | প্ৰৱঞ্চনা (prôbônchona) | [NEW] | Medium | Man of Lawlessness | 2 | Deception producing/flowing from unrighteousness |
| 34 | unrighteousness | ἀδικία (adikia) | অধাৰ্মিকতা (odharmikôta) | [NEW] | High | God’s Righteous Judgment | 2 | Direct antonym-coinage from Romans TM’s ধাৰ্মিকতা; never from ধৰ্ম root |
| 35 | love (agape) | ἀγάπη (agapē) | প্ৰেম (prem) | [NEW] | High | Perseverance under Persecution / Faith | 1,2 | Mandatory note distinguishing from prema-bhakti (Ekasarana devotional love) and romantic প্ৰেম |
| 36 | truth | ἀλήθεια (alētheia) | সত্য (xôtyô) | [NEW] | Medium | Standing Firm in the Traditions | 2 | Bound to gospel-truth specifically in this book, not generic philosophical truth |
| 37 | delusion / working of error | ἐνέργεια πλάνης (energeia planēs) | ভ্ৰম (bhrôm) | [NEW] | High | God’s Righteous Judgment | 2 | CRITICAL note: not মায়া (Vedantic cosmic illusion); a personal, judicial, targeted deception |
| 38 | the lie | ψεῦδος (pseudos) | মিছা কথা (misa kôtha) | [NEW] | Medium | Man of Lawlessness | 2 | The specific false object of misplaced “faith” in 2:11 |
| 39 | judged | κρίνω/κρίσις root (krithōsin) | বিচাৰিত হ’ব (bicaritô hôba) | [NEW] | High | God’s Righteous Judgment | 1,2 | Personal, forensic verdict; never impersonal karma-phal |
| 40 | endurance / perseverance | ὑπομονή (hypomonē) | ধৈর্য্য (dhôirjyô) | [NEW] | High | Perseverance under Persecution | 1 | Active, hope-anchored endurance; not stoic resignation or fatalism |
| 41 | affliction | θλῖψις (thlipsis) | ক্লেশ (kles) | [NEW] | Medium | Perseverance under Persecution | 1 | — |
| 42 | persecution | διωγμός (diōgmos) | তাড়না (tarôna) | [NEW] | Medium | Perseverance under Persecution | 1 | — |
| 43 | righteous judgment | δικαία κρίσις (dikaia krisis) | ন্যায্য বিচাৰ (nyaijyô bisar) | [NEW] | High | God’s Righteous Judgment | 1 | — |
| 44 | recompense / repay | ἀνταπόδομα (antapodoma) | প্ৰতিফল (protiphôl) | [NEW] | High | God’s Righteous Judgment | 1 | CRITICAL note: not karma-phal; personal judicial repayment by God |
| 45 | vengeance | ἐκδίκησις (ekdikēsis) | প্ৰতিশোধ (protixodh) | [NEW] | High | God’s Righteous Judgment | 1 | God’s exclusive prerogative; never sanctioned human revenge or automatic karma |
| 46 | eternal destruction | ὄλεθρος αἰώνιος (olethros aiōnios) | অনন্ত বিনাশ (ônôntô binax) | [NEW] | Critical | God’s Righteous Judgment / Day of the Lord | 1 | Final, unrepeatable state, not one stage in সংসাৰ; mandatory note, parallel weight to পৰিত্ৰাণ |
| 47 | traditions | παραδόσεις (paradoseis) | পৰম্পৰাগত শিক্ষা (pôrompôragôto xikkha) | [NEW] | Critical | Standing Firm in the Traditions | 2,3 | CRITICAL/MANDATORY NOTE: closed, apostolic-sourced teaching, NOT open guru-parampara/Satradhikar succession model; never bare পৰম্পৰা alone |
| 48 | hold fast | κρατέω (krateō) | ধৰি থাকা (dhôri thaka) | [NEW] | Medium | Standing Firm in the Traditions | 2 | Operative verb of the doctrine’s title |
| 49 | eternal comfort | παράκλησις αἰωνία (paraklēsis aiōnia) | অনন্ত সান্ত্বনা (ônôntô santôna) | [NEW] | Medium | Standing Firm in the Traditions | 2 | — |
| 50 | good hope | ἐλπίς ἀγαθή (elpis agathē) | আশা (axa) | [NEW] | High | Standing Firm in the Traditions | 2 | Not present in Romans TM; recommend formal addition; confident expectation, not wishful thinking or karma-conditioned expectation |
| 51 | establish / strengthen | στηρίζω (stērizō) | স্থিৰ কৰা (sthir kôra) | [NEW] | Medium | Standing Firm in the Traditions | 2 | — |
| 52 | command (apostolic) | παραγγέλλω (parangellō) | আজ্ঞা দিয়া (agya diya) | [NEW] | Medium | Standing Firm in the Traditions | 3 | Reflects delegated apostolic authority, cf. প্ৰেৰিত |
| 53 | walk in idleness / disorderly | ἀτάκτως περιπατέω (ataktōs peripateō) | অনিয়মিতভাৱে চলা (ôniyômitôbhabe côla) | [NEW] | Medium | Standing Firm in the Traditions | 3 | Practical consequence of eschatological confusion (ch. 2) |
| 54 | imitate | μιμέομαι (mimeomai) | অনুকৰণ কৰা (ônukôron kôra) | [NEW] | Low | Standing Firm in the Traditions | 3 | — |
| 55 | labor / work | κόπος / ἐργάζομαι (kopos / ergazomai) | পৰিশ্ৰম / কাম কৰা (pôrisrôm / kam kôra) | [NEW] | Low | Standing Firm in the Traditions | 3 | — |
| 56 | busybodies | περιεργαζόμενοι (periergazomenoi) | অনাৱশ্যক কামত লিপ্ত হৈ থাকে | [NEW] | Low | Standing Firm in the Traditions | 3 | — |
| 57 | obey | ὑπακούω (hypakouō) | আজ্ঞা মানি চলা (agya mani côla) | [NEW] | Medium | Standing Firm in the Traditions | 3 | Submission to apostolic instruction specifically |
| 58 | admonish | νουθετέω (noutheteō) | সোঁৱৰাই দিয়া (xoworai diya) | [NEW, consistent with Romans TM “exhort” entry] | Low | Mutual Edification | 3 | Restorative, not punitive-exclusionary |
| 59 | sign / authenticating mark | σημεῖον (sēmeion) | স্বাক্ষৰ/চিন (swakkhôr/cin) | [NEW] | Low | Standing Firm in the Traditions | 3 | Ties to guarding against forged-letter deception (2:2) |
| 60 | breath (of his mouth) | πνεῦμα τοῦ στόματος (pneuma tou stomatos) | মুখৰ নিশ্বাস (mukhor nixwas) | [NEW sense of πνεῦμα] | Medium | Day of the Lord | 2 | NOT the Holy Spirit; literal breath — third distinct sense of πνεῦμα in ch. 2 alongside “a spirit” (2:2) and Holy Spirit (2:13) |
| 61 | a spirit (false claim) | πνεῦμα (pneuma) | আত্মিক প্ৰকাশ (atmik prôkax) | [NEW sense of πνεῦμα] | High | Day of the Lord | 2 | A counterfeit prophetic claim; must not be confused with পবিত্ৰ আত্মা |
| 62 | object of worship | σέβασμα (sebasma) | আৰাধ্য বস্তু (aradhyô bostu) | [NEW] | High | Man of Lawlessness | 2 | Totalizing claim over every rival deity/cult object; retain full force |
Summary Risk Counts (this curriculum’s new terms only)
| Risk Tier | Count | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | 6 | Human theologian (mandatory) |
| High | 20 | Human theologian (mandatory) |
| Medium | 21 | Native speaker review |
| Low | 8 | Automated review |
Highest-priority Critical terms requiring mandatory translator notes at every occurrence:
- প্ৰভুৰ দিন (Day of the Lord) — distinguish from cyclical yuga-end/pralaya cosmology
- বিধানহীনতা / বিধানহীনতাৰ মানুহ (lawlessness / man of lawlessness) — never ধৰ্ম-rooted rendering
- বিশ্বাসত্যাগ (apostasy/rebellion) — never ধৰ্মত্যাগ
- আগমন (parousia/coming), used both for Christ’s true coming and the lawless one’s counterfeit coming — same word, deliberate irony, disambiguate by note
- পৰম্পৰাগত শিক্ষা (traditions) — never bare পৰম্পৰা; distinguish from guru-parampara/Satradhikar succession
- অনন্ত বিনাশ (eternal destruction) — final, unrepeatable state, not a stage within সংসাৰ
Cross-reference: 07_semantic_analysis.md for full verse-by-verse and chapter-by-chapter argumentation behind every entry above.
All [REUSED] entries must be verified against the live translation_memory.json before Phase 2 processing; do not hand-copy values that may drift from the authoritative file.
All [NEW] entries are proposals pending formal incorporation into an updated translation_memory.json (Phase 1 Step 4) and doctrine_risk_registry.json update for this curriculum’s five doctrines.
Critical Risk Terms
God
Approved rendering: ঈশ্বৰ
Transliteration: Iswôr
Doctrine: God
Rejected alternatives: ভগৱান, পৰমেশ্বৰ
Original: θεός
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. The one true, personal God, addressed in 2 Thessalonians as ‘God our Father’ (1:1-2) and as the righteous Judge (1:5-9). Never ভগৱান or পৰমেশ্বৰ.
Father
Approved rendering: পিতা
Transliteration: pita
Doctrine: God
Rejected alternatives: ব্ৰহ্মা, সৃষ্টিকৰ্তা
Original: πατήρ
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. God as personal Father, paired with ‘the Lord Jesus Christ’ in the letter’s greeting (1:1-2) and closing benediction (2:16).
Lord
Approved rendering: প্ৰভু
Transliteration: prôbhu
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: স্বামী, ঈশ্বৰ
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Exclusive, supreme authority of Jesus, used repeatedly throughout 2 Thessalonians (1:1, 1:7-8, 2:1, 2:8, 2:14, 3:1, 3:16). Must never read as one honorific among the devotional titles used for Sankardev’s supreme deity or for gurus.
Jesus
Approved rendering: যীচু
Transliteration: Yisu
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ঈছা
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Never ঈছা.
Christ
Approved rendering: খ্ৰীষ্ট
Transliteration: Khristo
Doctrine: Messianic Promise
Original: Χριστός
Category: Christology
NEW to this curriculum’s TM but adopted per the established transliteration standard already set in 12_ai_translation_requirements.md (baseline). Used as part of the compound title ‘the Lord Jesus Christ’ throughout 2 Thessalonians (1:1-2, 1:7-8, 1:12, 2:1, 2:14, 2:16, 3:6, 3:12, 3:18). Distinct from মচীহ (Messiah, the Romans TM title-sense term); both refer to the same person and must never be presented as two different figures.
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: পবিত্ৰ আত্মা
Transliteration: pobitrô atma
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: ব্ৰহ্ম, পৰমাত্মা
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. In 2 Thessalonians 2, πνεῦμα occurs in three distinct senses within eleven verses: a false prophetic ‘spirit’ claim (2:2, see false_spirit_claim), Christ’s literal breath (2:8, see breath_of_mouth), and the Holy Spirit himself (2:13). পবিত্ৰ আত্মা is reserved exclusively for the third sense; never for the other two.
Righteousness
Approved rendering: ধাৰ্মিকতা
Transliteration: dharmikôta
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: ধৰ্ম, পুণ্য, ন্যায়
Inherited from Romans package. Not directly re-used as a standalone term in 2 Thessalonians, but its root is the deliberate basis for this book’s negation-coinage অধাৰ্মিকতা (unrighteousness). Never ধৰ্ম.
Son Of God
Approved rendering: ঈশ্বৰৰ পুত্ৰ
Transliteration: Iswôror putrô
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ঈশ্বৰৰ অংশ, দেৱপুৰুষ
Inherited from Romans package. Not directly occurring in 2 Thessalonians text, but load-bearing as the ontological contrast term that বিনাশৰ পুত্ৰ (son_of_destruction, 2:3) must never be confused with — the Hebraic idiom ‘son of X’ in 2:3 is categorically different from Christ’s eternal, unique Sonship named here.
Incarnation
Approved rendering: দেহধাৰণ
Transliteration: dehôdharon
Doctrine: Incarnation
Rejected alternatives: অৱতাৰ, প্ৰকাশ
Inherited from Romans package. Not directly occurring in 2 Thessalonians text, but load-bearing as the contrast term that আগমনৰ প্ৰকাশ (appearing_of_coming, 2:8) must be kept conceptually distinct from: Christ’s one-time incarnation is a different event from his glorious future return. Never অৱতাৰ.
Salvation
Approved rendering: পৰিত্ৰাণ
Transliteration: poritran
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: মুক্তি, মোক্ষ, নিস্তাৰ
Inherited from Romans package. Verb form পৰিত্ৰাণ পোৱা (‘to be saved’) used at 2:10, ‘so as to be saved.’ Never মুক্তি/মোক্ষ.
Coming Of Christ
Approved rendering: আগমন
Transliteration: agômôn
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Rejected alternatives: অৱতাৰ, প্ৰকাশ (alone)
Original: παρουσία
Category: Eschatology
NEW — CRITICAL. The visible, glorious, bodily return of Christ (2:1), the identical Greek word (παρουσία) ironically reused for the lawless one’s counterfeit ‘coming’ (2:9). Must not be confused with a cyclical avatar-descent pattern or recurring guru-visitation tradition. Because Paul deliberately reuses the identical word for both referents, the Assamese rendering must also stay identical in both places — inventing two different Assamese words would erase the intentional irony — but a mandatory translator note at first occurrence must distinguish the true from the counterfeit referent by context.
Day Of The Lord
Approved rendering: প্ৰভুৰ দিন
Transliteration: prôbhur din
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Rejected alternatives: প্ৰলয়, যুগান্ত, শেষ দিন (generic)
Original: ἡμέρα τοῦ Κυρίου
Category: Eschatology
NEW — CRITICAL. The climactic, future day of Christ’s return, judgment of the wicked, and vindication of the saints (2:2). Must never be equated with cyclical yuga-end/pralaya cosmology. A single, unrepeatable, historical-eschatological event terminating this present age once for all. Mandatory translator note at first occurrence in every document. Never use প্ৰলয়/যুগান্ত even as explanatory gloss in commentary.
Rebellion Apostasy
Approved rendering: বিশ্বাসত্যাগ
Transliteration: biswaxtyag
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Rejected alternatives: ধৰ্মত্যাগ, বিদ্ৰোহ (alone)
Original: ἀποστασία
Category: Man of Lawlessness
NEW — CRITICAL. A future, large-scale, definitive falling-away from the true faith that must precede the Day of the Lord (2:3). Built on the established বিশ্বাস root, never ধৰ্ম (ধৰ্মত্যাগ would suggest abandoning caste-dharma or Satra-affiliation). Distinct from ordinary inter-religious conversion, a sensitive live category in Assam; names a specific future falling-away from the Christian faith, not conversion between religions generally.
Man Of Lawlessness
Approved rendering: বিধানহীনতাৰ মানুহ
Transliteration: bidhanhinôtar manuh
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Rejected alternatives: অধৰ্মৰ মানুহ, পাপৰ মানুহ
Original: ὁ ἄνθρωπος τῆς ἀνομίας
Category: Man of Lawlessness
NEW — CRITICAL. The singular eschatological figure who embodies and unleashes cosmic rebellion against God before Christ’s return (2:3). Built on established বিধান (Law) root, deliberately avoiding ধৰ্ম. Textual variant ‘man of sin’ (πাপৰ মানুহ) footnoted but not used as primary rendering. Must never be assimilated to any guru-successor or avatar-figure category, nor to an asura defeated by a recurring avatar.
Lawlessness
Approved rendering: বিধানহীনতা
Transliteration: bidhanhinôta
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Rejected alternatives: অধৰ্ম
Original: ἀνομία
Category: Man of Lawlessness
NEW — CRITICAL. Active, personified rebellion against God’s revealed moral order, the defining character of the lawless one, already secretly at work (2:3, 2:7-8). Never অধৰ্ম, already rejected in the Romans TM for ‘sin’ due to caste/duty-framing risk; that same risk applies here, doubled by this doctrine’s stakes. Preserves the direct etymological link to established বিধান while cleanly avoiding ধৰ্ম. This is the single most important root-discipline rule in the whole curriculum — enforce as an absolute validation rule.
Proclaims Himself God
Approved rendering: নিজকে ঈশ্বৰ বুলি প্ৰকাশ কৰা
Transliteration: nijôke Iswôr buli prôkax kôra
Doctrine: Deity of Christ (Counterfeited)
Original: ἀποδεικνύντα ἑαυτὸν ὅτι ἔστιν θεός
Category: Man of Lawlessness
NEW — CRITICAL. The lawless one’s climactic, explicit, public self-declaration of deity (2:4). The clearest counterfeit of the Deity of Christ doctrine in the entire New Testament; must be rendered with maximal clarity as an illegitimate false claim, never ambiguous phrasing that could read as a legitimate divine title. Never softened to ‘acts like he is God.‘
Eternal Destruction
Approved rendering: অনন্ত বিনাশ
Transliteration: ônôntô binax
Doctrine: God’s Righteous Judgment
Original: ὄλεθρον αἰώνιον
Category: God’s Righteous Judgment
NEW — CRITICAL. The final, permanent, irreversible judgment of those who reject the gospel, excluded from the presence of the Lord (1:9). Because Assamese Hindu and Ekasarana eschatology envisions successive lives within সংসাৰ rather than a single final judgment, this term requires a mandatory translator note: ‘eternal’ (αἰώνιος) means without end, a permanent and final state, not one stage within an ongoing rebirth cycle. This is the negative eschatological counterpart to পৰিত্ৰাণ and must receive equal doctrinal weight and equal translational care.
Traditions
Approved rendering: পৰম্পৰাগত শিক্ষা
Transliteration: pôrompôragôto xikkha
Doctrine: Standing Firm in the Traditions
Rejected alternatives: পৰম্পৰা (bare), শিক্ষা (alone)
Original: παραδόσεις
Category: Standing Firm in the Traditions
NEW — CRITICAL. The body of authoritative apostolic teaching, received orally and in writing, which believers must hold fast against false eschatological teaching (2:15, 3:6). Assamese has an existing, culturally dominant, doctrinally loaded concept — গুৰু-পৰম্পৰা (guru-parampara), the living Satradhikar succession central to Sankardev’s Ekasarana Dharma. A bare rendering as পৰম্পৰা risks endorsing this open-ended, ongoing, person-to-person succession model. Paul’s παράδοσις is a closed, apostolic-era body of teaching received once from Christ through the apostles, never an evolving lineage of successive human teachers. Mandatory translator note at every occurrence (2:15; 3:6). NEVER bare পৰম্পৰা. This is the letter’s clearest example of deliberately avoiding an available, fluent native word because it is too dangerous, not because it is missing.
High Risk Terms
Grace
Approved rendering: অনুগ্ৰহ
Transliteration: anugrôh
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: কৃপা, দয়া, বৰ, সৌভাগ্য, পুণ্য
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Frames the letter’s opening (1:2, 1:12) and closing (2:16, 3:18) benedictions. Must continue to resist boon-for-devotion (বৰ) or merit-transaction framing, especially given the letter’s stress on believers being made ‘worthy’ by God’s own enabling power (1:11), not self-effort.
Faith
Approved rendering: বিশ্বাস
Transliteration: biswax
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: শ্ৰদ্ধা, ভক্তি
Original: πίστις / πιστεύω
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package. This letter depends on the reader tracking the same faith-root used both of genuine trust in God (1:3, ‘belief of the truth’ 2:13) and of trust tragically misplaced in a false object (‘believe what is false’ 2:11-12); the object must always be recoverable from context.
Gospel
Approved rendering: সুসমাচাৰ
Transliteration: xusomacar
Doctrine: Gospel
Rejected alternatives: ভাল খবৰ, শুভবাৰ্তা
Original: εὐαγγέλιον
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Obedience to ‘the gospel of our Lord Jesus’ (1:8) is explicitly the dividing line at final judgment in this letter; distinguish from an Ekasarana Dharma naam-proclamation or a devotional teaching among several valid paths.
Saints
Approved rendering: পবিত্ৰ লোক
Transliteration: pobitrô lok
Doctrine: Sainthood
Rejected alternatives: সন্ত, ভক্ত
Original: ἅγιοι
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. All believers, corporately, among whom Christ will be glorified at his coming (1:10). Never সন্ত/ভক্ত. This fence must be explicitly re-flagged for this curriculum’s persecution-narrative material in chapter 1, where the emotionally resonant সন্ত register may otherwise tempt commentary writers.
Glory
Approved rendering: মহিমা
Transliteration: môhima
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: দেৱজ্যোতি, তেজ
Original: δόξα
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. God’s radiant honor, displayed when Christ is ‘glorified in his saints’ at his return (1:10) and ‘the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ’ obtained by believers (2:14). Avoid tej/prabha light-imagery.
Sanctification
Approved rendering: পবিত্ৰীকৰণ
Transliteration: pobitrikoron
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: শুচিকৰণ, সংস্কাৰ
Original: ἁγιασμός
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package. Named as one of two means (with belief of the truth) by which God’s elect come to salvation (2:13). Never সংস্কাৰ. πνεῦμα here explicitly IS the Holy Spirit, in deliberate contrast to the counterfeit ‘spirit’ of 2:2 and the literal ‘breath’ of 2:8.
Calling
Approved rendering: মতনি
Transliteration: motoni
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Rejected alternatives: আমন্ত্ৰণ
Original: κλῆσις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Believers are urged to be found ‘worthy’ of this calling (1:11), which is itself God’s own gracious enabling, not a devotee’s achievement through naam-taking or ascetic effort.
Election
Approved rendering: ঈশ্বৰৰ মনোনয়ন
Transliteration: Iswôror monônoyon
Doctrine: Effectual Calling
Rejected alternatives: ভাগ্য, নিয়তি, কপাল
Original: εἵλετο (root sense ἐκλογή)
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package (concept extended from εἵλετο, ‘he chose,’ 2:13-14). God’s sovereign choice of the Thessalonian believers ‘from the beginning.’ Never ভাগ্য/নিয়তি/কপাল.
Power Of God
Approved rendering: ঈশ্বৰৰ শক্তি
Transliteration: Iswôror xôkti
Doctrine: Power of God
Rejected alternatives: বল
Original: δύναμις (θεοῦ, implied)
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, positive divine sense. God’s own power by which he fulfills every resolve for good and work of faith in believers (1:11). Always paired with ঈশ্বৰৰ. This pairing is essential in this letter to distinguish God’s power sharply from the unpaired, derivative শক্তি permitted to Satan (2:9); see power_of_lawlessness.
Law
Approved rendering: বিধান
Transliteration: bidhan
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Rejected alternatives: ধৰ্ম, নিয়ম
Inherited from Romans package. Not directly re-used as a standalone term in 2 Thessalonians, but its root is the mandatory basis for this book’s Critical lawlessness-family coinages (বিধানহীনতা, বিধানহীনতাৰ মানুহ, বিধানহীনতাৰ ৰহস্য). Never ধৰ্ম.
Sin
Approved rendering: পাপ
Transliteration: pap
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Rejected alternatives: অধৰ্ম, অশুচিতা
Inherited from Romans package. Referenced in this curriculum only as the basis of the rejected textual-variant rendering পাপৰ মানুহ (‘man of sin’) at 2:3, footnoted but not used as the primary rendering of ὁ ἄνθρωπος τῆς ἀνομίας.
False Spirit Claim
Approved rendering: আত্মিক প্ৰকাশ
Transliteration: atmik prôkax
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Rejected alternatives: পবিত্ৰ আত্মা, ভাববাণী
Original: πνεῦμα
Category: Church
NEW. A purported prophetic utterance or spirit-message claiming the Day of the Lord had already come (2:2), NOT the Holy Spirit himself. Must never be rendered পবিত্ৰ আত্মা. Third of three distinct πνεῦμα senses in ch. 2, alongside breath_of_mouth (2:8) and holy_spirit (2:13).
Power Of Lawlessness
Approved rendering: শক্তি
Transliteration: xôkti
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Rejected alternatives: ঈশ্বৰৰ শক্তি (paired form forbidden here)
Original: δύναμις
Category: Man of Lawlessness
NEW sense of an existing root. The derivative, permitted power at work in the lawless one’s counterfeit coming, empowered by Satan (2:9). Must NEVER be paired with ঈশ্বৰৰ (that pairing is reserved exclusively for God’s own power, power_of_god, 1:11). Real but limited, derivative, permitted power only — never another form of divine power. The absence of the pairing is itself doctrinally significant and must not be ‘corrected’ by an editor.
Son Of Destruction
Approved rendering: বিনাশৰ পুত্ৰ
Transliteration: binaxor putrô
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Original: ὁ υἱὸς τῆς ἀπωλείας
Category: Man of Lawlessness
NEW. Hebraic idiom marking the lawless one as destined for God’s final, irreversible judgment (2:3). Mandatory note explaining the idiom (‘son of X’ = characterized by/destined for X, not literal filial descent) so it is never confused with the Critical, ontological term ঈশ্বৰৰ পুত্ৰ (Son of God).
Mystery Of Lawlessness
Approved rendering: বিধানহীনতাৰ ৰহস্য
Transliteration: bidhanhinôtar rôhôxyô
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Original: τὸ μυστήριον τῆς ἀνομίας
Category: Man of Lawlessness
NEW. The already-active, though not yet fully manifest, secret operation of rebellion against God in history (2:7). Mandatory note distinguishing this God-disclosed reality already at work in history from esoteric/occult ‘rahasya’ secret-knowledge traditions active in regional tantric and folk-religious practice, reinforced by the regional prominence of the Kamakhya Shakta tradition.
Restrainer
Approved rendering: ৰোধ কৰি থকা শক্তি/জন
Transliteration: rodh kôri thôka xôkti/jôn
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Original: τὸ κατέχον / ὁ κατέχων
Category: Man of Lawlessness
NEW. The unidentified restraining force/person delaying the lawless one’s public unveiling (2:6-7). Because the referent is genuinely ambiguous in the Greek text itself (one of the most debated phrases in the NT), the Assamese rendering must preserve the same open-endedness rather than resolving the ambiguity in translation — every surveyed existing Assamese translation resolves this ambiguity; this curriculum must not. Requires theologian review at every occurrence.
Temple Of God
Approved rendering: ঈশ্বৰৰ মন্দিৰ
Transliteration: Iswôror mondir
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Original: ναὸς τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Man of Lawlessness
NEW. The literal sanctuary building following the OT/Jerusalem Temple pattern, where the lawless one commits ultimate sacrilege by enthroning himself (2:4). The Romans TM rejects মন্দিৰ specifically as a rendering for ἐκκλησία (‘church’); here ναός denotes a different, literal-sanctuary referent, so মন্দিৰ is linguistically correct — but every occurrence requires a mandatory translator note clarifying (1) this refers to the sacred Israelite/Jerusalem Temple pattern, not a Hindu temple, and (2) it must never be treated as a synonym for মণ্ডলী elsewhere. The curriculum takes no position on which millennial/eschatological school resolves the temple referent.
Exalts Himself
Approved rendering: নিজকে উচ্চ পাতে
Transliteration: nijôke ucco pate
Doctrine: Deity of Christ (Counterfeited)
Original: ὑπεραίρεται
Category: Man of Lawlessness
NEW. The lawless one’s self-deifying arrogance in claiming honor due to God alone (2:4). Must not be phrased so as to seem to legitimize any human self-deification claim, given a devotional culture where gurus are sometimes venerated with god-equivalent honor within the guru-parampara tradition.
Object Of Worship
Approved rendering: আৰাধ্য বস্তু
Transliteration: aradhyô bostu
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Original: σέβασμα
Category: Man of Lawlessness
NEW. Any deity or cultic object venerated by any religion, over which the lawless one claims total supremacy (2:4). In Assam’s multi-religious context, this verse’s totalizing claim must retain its full force — the lawless one opposes every other claimed deity without exception. Do not soften to avoid perceived offense; requires theologian review.
Appearing Of Coming
Approved rendering: আগমনৰ প্ৰকাশ
Transliteration: agômônor prôkax
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: τῇ ἐπιφανείᾳ τῆς παρουσίας αὐτοῦ
Category: Eschatology
NEW. The visible, glorious manifestation of Christ’s return, by which he destroys the lawless one (2:8). Must not be confused with দেহধাৰণ (incarnation, Romans TM Critical term for the Son’s once-for-all assumption of human nature at his first coming). Christ’s return in glory is a wholly distinct, though equally unique and non-repeatable, event.
Unrighteousness
Approved rendering: অধাৰ্মিকতা
Transliteration: odharmikôta
Doctrine: God’s Righteous Judgment
Rejected alternatives: অধৰ্ম
Original: ἀδικία
Category: God’s Righteous Judgment
NEW. Moral unrighteousness, the settled disposition of those condemned for taking pleasure in it rather than believing the truth (2:10, 2:12). Deliberately coined as the direct negation of the Romans TM term ধাৰ্মিকতা (righteousness), never from the ধৰ্ম root. Preserves the theological antonym-pair (righteousness ↔ unrighteousness) without touching the forbidden ধৰ্ম root.
Love
Approved rendering: প্ৰেম
Transliteration: prem
Doctrine: Perseverance under Persecution
Original: ἀγάπη
Category: Perseverance under Persecution
NEW. Self-giving, committed love, growing among the persecuted Thessalonian believers (1:3) and named negatively as the thing ‘refused’ by those who reject the truth (2:10). Mandatory translator note distinguishing covenantal, truth-anchored ἀγάπη from either ordinary romantic প্ৰেম or prema-bhakti — the loving devotional surrender to a chosen deity central to Sankardev’s Ekasarana tradition. প্ৰেম is pervasive across both ordinary and devotional registers, making this a persistent, not occasional, risk.
Delusion Of Error
Approved rendering: ভ্ৰম
Transliteration: bhrôm
Doctrine: God’s Righteous Judgment
Rejected alternatives: মায়া
Original: ἐνέργειαν πλάνης
Category: God’s Righteous Judgment
NEW. God’s judicial act of confirming the willfully deceived in their self-chosen deception (2:11). Mandatory distinguishing note: this is a personal, morally culpable, divinely-permitted deception given as judgment upon those who already rejected the truth — it must NOT be confused with মায়া (maya), the impersonal, metaphysical ‘cosmic illusion’ concept central to Vedantic philosophy in which the entire phenomenal world is illusory to all beings alike, regardless of moral choice. মায়া is added to the forbidden-substitution list for this curriculum; automated scan required on every occurrence of delusion language.
Judged
Approved rendering: বিচাৰিত হ’ব
Transliteration: bicaritô hôba
Doctrine: God’s Righteous Judgment
Original: κριθῶσιν
Category: God’s Righteous Judgment
NEW, from root বিচাৰ (judgment/court). God’s formal, forensic condemnation of those who rejected the truth and delighted in unrighteousness (2:12). Must be distinguished from impersonal karma-phal: this is the personal, forensic verdict of a personal Judge, not an automatic cosmic mechanism playing out across lifetimes.
Endurance
Approved rendering: ধৈর্য্য
Transliteration: dhôirjyô
Doctrine: Perseverance under Persecution
Rejected alternatives: সহ্য কৰা, স্থিৰতা
Original: ὑπομονή
Category: Perseverance under Persecution
NEW. The Thessalonians’ active, steadfast endurance amid persecution and affliction (1:4). Must be distinguished from stoic detachment or fatalistic acceptance of suffering; biblical endurance is hope-anchored (1:5), not resignation to karma. সহ্য কৰা permitted only in non-doctrinal narrative color, never as the glossary term.
Righteous Judgment
Approved rendering: ন্যায্য বিচাৰ
Transliteration: nyaijyô bisar
Doctrine: God’s Righteous Judgment
Original: δικαία κρίσις
Category: God’s Righteous Judgment
NEW, built on same বিচাৰ root as judged for consistency. God’s judicial verdict, characterized by perfect justice, of which present suffering is evidence pointing forward (1:5). Must be distinguished from impersonal karma-phal.
Recompense
Approved rendering: প্ৰতিফল
Transliteration: protiphôl
Doctrine: God’s Righteous Judgment
Original: ἀνταποδοῦναι
Category: God’s Righteous Judgment
NEW. God’s just repayment of affliction to those who afflict his people (1:6). Mandatory translator note: প্ৰতিফল closely echoes ‘karma-phal’ vocabulary, a live and dominant concept in Assamese Hindu thought (shared ‘-ফল’ root creates a near-miss association even without কৰ্মফল itself appearing). This is God’s own personal, righteous, judicial repayment by a personal Judge, never an impersonal cosmic law of cause-and-effect operating across rebirths. Contextual framing (personal Judge, specific verdict) plus native-speaker review flagged for karma-resonance risk required at every occurrence.
Vengeance
Approved rendering: প্ৰতিশোধ
Transliteration: protixodh
Doctrine: God’s Righteous Judgment
Original: ἐκδίκησιν
Category: God’s Righteous Judgment
NEW. Christ’s just retribution, at his return, on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel (1:8). Must be framed as righteous judicial retribution belonging exclusively to God the rightful Judge, never as sanctioned human revenge, and never as automatic karmic backlash.
Good Hope
Approved rendering: আশা
Transliteration: axa
Doctrine: Standing Firm in the Traditions
Original: ἐλπίδα ἀγαθήν
Category: Standing Firm in the Traditions
NEW; not present in the Romans TM baseline but essential throughout this curriculum’s Day-of-the-Lord teaching (2:16). Must be distinguished from fatalistic ‘hoping for the best’ or a karma-conditioned expectation about one’s future rebirth; biblical hope is a certain expectation anchored in God’s unchanging promise and character. Recommended for formal addition to the shared cross-curriculum glossary.
Medium Risk Terms
Church
Approved rendering: মণ্ডলী
Transliteration: môndoli
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Rejected alternatives: মন্দিৰ, নামঘৰ
Original: ἐκκλησία
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. The Thessalonian congregation, addressed as being ‘in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ’ (1:1). Never নামঘৰ or মন্দিৰ. NOTE: this book separately introduces ঈশ্বৰৰ মন্দিৰ (temple_of_god) for a different Greek referent (ναός, literal sanctuary, 2:4) — the two are never synonyms; see temple_of_god entry.
Peace
Approved rendering: শান্তি
Transliteration: xanti
Doctrine: Peace with God
Rejected alternatives: সুখ, প্ৰশান্তি
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Used in the letter’s greeting (1:2) and in the closing benediction of ‘the Lord of peace himself’ (3:16). Distinguish from meditative calm sought through naam-kirtan or japa.
Breath Of Mouth
Approved rendering: মুখৰ নিশ্বাস
Transliteration: mukhor nixwas
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Rejected alternatives: পবিত্ৰ আত্মা
Original: πνεῦμα τοῦ στόματος αὐτοῦ
Category: Eschatology
NEW. The literal breath of Christ’s mouth, by which he will effortlessly destroy the lawless one at his coming (2:8), echoing Isaiah 11:4. Not the Holy Spirit and not the false ‘spirit’ claim of v.2.
Satan
Approved rendering: শয়তান
Transliteration: xôyôtan
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Original: Σατανᾶς
Category: Man of Lawlessness
NEW to this curriculum’s TM; established Assamese Christian loanword. The personal spiritual adversary of God whose activity empowers the lawless one’s counterfeit signs (2:9). Distinguish from any impersonal evil-principle or cosmic-imbalance concept found in Puranic or tantric frameworks; Satan is a personal, defeated adversary, not an abstract force.
Gathered Together
Approved rendering: একত্ৰীকৰণ
Transliteration: ekôtrikôron
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: ἐπισυναγωγή
Category: Eschatology
NEW. Believers’ end-time gathering to Christ at his coming (2:1). Built from একত্ৰ (together) + -ীকৰণ nominalizing pattern (cf. পবিত্ৰীকৰণ). Keep purely eschatological in sense; the ordinary congregational-meeting sense is carried by মণ্ডলী elsewhere.
Revealed
Approved rendering: প্ৰকাশিত হ’ব
Transliteration: prôkaxitô hôba
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Original: ἀποκαλύπτω
Category: Man of Lawlessness
NEW. The public unveiling of the lawless one’s identity, previously hidden (2:3, 2:6, 2:8). Keep identical across all three occurrences for terminological consistency.
Wicked Deception
Approved rendering: প্ৰৱঞ্চনা
Transliteration: prôbônchona
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Original: ἀπάτῃ ἀδικίας
Category: Man of Lawlessness
NEW. The deception, flowing from and producing unrighteousness, by which the lawless one deceives those who are perishing (2:10). Deception that both flows from and produces moral unrighteousness, not neutral error.
Truth
Approved rendering: সত্য
Transliteration: xôtyô
Doctrine: Standing Firm in the Traditions
Original: ἀλήθεια
Category: Standing Firm in the Traditions
NEW. The gospel truth, which some love and believe (2:13) and others refuse to love, leaving them vulnerable to deception (2:10, 2:12). Bound tightly to ‘the truth’ of the gospel specifically in this book, not truth in a general philosophical sense.
The Lie
Approved rendering: মিছা কথা
Transliteration: misa kôtha
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Original: τῷ ψεύδει
Category: Man of Lawlessness
NEW. The specific falsehood of the lawless one’s claims, the false object toward which misplaced belief is directed (2:11). Faith’s validity depends entirely on its object, per the Romans TM note on faith.
Affliction
Approved rendering: ক্লেশ
Transliteration: kles
Doctrine: Perseverance under Persecution
Original: θλῖψις
Category: Perseverance under Persecution
NEW. The pressure/tribulation the Thessalonian believers presently endure for their faith (1:4, 1:6-7).
Persecution
Approved rendering: তাড়না
Transliteration: tarôna
Doctrine: Perseverance under Persecution
Original: διωγμός
Category: Perseverance under Persecution
NEW. Active pursuit and hostility directed against believers for their faith (1:4).
Firstfruits
Approved rendering: প্ৰথম ফল
Transliteration: prôthôm phôl
Doctrine: Effectual Calling / Election
Original: ἀπαρχήν (variant: ἀπ’ ἀρχῆς)
Category: Effectual Calling
NEW. Believers described as God’s firstfruits of the coming full harvest of salvation (2:13). Note the significant textual variant (ἀπ’ ἀρχῆς, ‘from the beginning’) should be flagged in a footnote since it affects the sense.
Hold Fast
Approved rendering: ধৰি থাকা
Transliteration: dhôri thaka
Doctrine: Standing Firm in the Traditions
Original: κρατεῖτε
Category: Standing Firm in the Traditions
NEW. The positive command to grasp firmly and retain the received apostolic teaching against pressure to abandon it (2:15). Must convey guarding a fixed, complete deposit, not merely continuing a living lineage practice. Operative verb of the doctrine’s title.
Eternal Comfort
Approved rendering: অনন্ত সান্ত্বনা
Transliteration: ônôntô santôna
Doctrine: Standing Firm in the Traditions
Original: παράκλησιν αἰωνίαν
Category: Standing Firm in the Traditions
NEW. God’s own comfort, grounded in his eternal love and grace, given to strengthen believers facing persecution and false teaching (2:16).
Establish
Approved rendering: স্থিৰ কৰা
Transliteration: sthir kôra
Doctrine: Standing Firm in the Traditions
Original: στηρίξαι
Category: Standing Firm in the Traditions
NEW. God’s own work to make believers firm and immovable in every good work and word (2:17). Thematically tied to ‘standing firm.‘
Command Apostolic
Approved rendering: আজ্ঞা দিয়া
Transliteration: agya diya
Doctrine: Standing Firm in the Traditions
Original: παραγγέλλομεν
Category: Standing Firm in the Traditions
NEW. Paul’s repeated apostolic commands regarding church discipline and conduct (3:4, 3:6, 3:10, 3:12). Reflects genuine apostolic authority (cf. প্ৰেৰিত, Romans TM Medium risk), not mere personal opinion or advice.
Walk In Idleness
Approved rendering: অনিয়মিতভাৱে চলা
Transliteration: ôniyômitôbhabe côla
Doctrine: Standing Firm in the Traditions
Original: ἀτάκτως περιπατοῦντος
Category: Standing Firm in the Traditions
NEW. Certain believers living in disorderly idleness, presuming on the imminence of the Day of the Lord and disrupting church order (3:6, 3:11). Connects Day-of-the-Lord misunderstanding (ch. 2) to concrete communal misconduct (ch. 3); this causal link must be preserved in teaching notes, not treated as an unrelated ethics appendix.
Obey
Approved rendering: আজ্ঞা মানি চলা
Transliteration: agya mani côla
Doctrine: Standing Firm in the Traditions
Original: ὑπακούει
Category: Standing Firm in the Traditions
NEW. Submissive response to authoritative apostolic instruction, disobedience to which brings church discipline (3:14). Connects to standing firm in received apostolic authority, not blind submission to any human religious authority figure.
Faithful
Approved rendering: বিশ্বাসী
Transliteration: biswaxi
Doctrine: God
Original: πιστός
Category: God
NEW, using the established বিশ্বাস root. God’s own unwavering, reliable character, which underwrites his promise to guard believers from evil (3:3).
Worthy
Approved rendering: যোগ্য গণ্য কৰা
Transliteration: jogyô gonyô kôra
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Original: ἀξιώσῃ
Category: Divine Calling
NEW. God’s own gracious enabling that makes believers worthy of their calling, not self-achieved worthiness (1:11). Must not imply merit-earning; consistent with the Grace doctrine.
Low Risk Terms
Thanksgiving
Approved rendering: ধন্যবাদ
Transliteration: dhonyôbad
Doctrine: Thanksgiving
Inherited from Romans package. Standard term, no significant doctrinal risk (1:3, 2:13).
Fellowship
Approved rendering: সহভাগিতা
Transliteration: xohobhagita
Doctrine: Christian Fellowship
Rejected alternatives: বন্ধুত্ব, সমাজ
Inherited from Romans package. Concept underlying the familial ‘brothers’ address used throughout (1:3, 2:1, 3:6, 3:15).
Imitate
Approved rendering: অনুকৰণ কৰা
Transliteration: ônukôron kôra
Doctrine: Standing Firm in the Traditions
Original: μιμεῖσθαι
Category: Standing Firm in the Traditions
NEW. The command to imitate the apostles’ own pattern of diligent labor, not disorderly idleness (3:7, 3:9).
Labor
Approved rendering: পৰিশ্ৰম / কাম কৰা
Transliteration: pôrisrôm / kam kôra
Doctrine: Standing Firm in the Traditions
Original: κόπῳ καὶ μόχθῳ / ἐργαζόμενοι
Category: Standing Firm in the Traditions
NEW. Diligent, productive work, exemplified by Paul’s own self-supporting labor and commanded of all believers (3:8, 3:10, 3:12).
Busybodies
Approved rendering: অনাৱশ্যক কামত লিপ্ত হৈ থাকে
Transliteration: anaboxyôk kamôt liptô hôi thake
Doctrine: Standing Firm in the Traditions
Original: περιεργαζομένους
Category: Standing Firm in the Traditions
NEW. Idle believers who meddle in others’ affairs instead of doing their own productive work (3:11).
Admonish
Approved rendering: সোঁৱৰাই দিয়া
Transliteration: xoworai diya
Doctrine: Church Discipline and Order
Original: νουθετεῖτε
Category: Church Discipline and Order
NEW, consistent with the Romans TM note distinguishing entreaty/admonition senses of related verbs (exhort). Loving, corrective instruction aimed at restoration, treating the disobedient ‘as a brother,’ not shunning entirely (3:15).
Sign Authenticating Mark
Approved rendering: স্বাক্ষৰ/চিন
Transliteration: swakkhôr/cin
Doctrine: Apostolic Authority and Authentication
Original: τὸ σημεῖον
Category: Standing Firm in the Traditions
NEW. Paul’s own handwriting as an authenticating mark against forged letters, directly answering the false-letter deception warned against in 2:2 (3:17). Thematically bookends the letter’s concern for guarding against counterfeit apostolic authority.
Word Of The Lord
Approved rendering: প্ৰভুৰ বাক্য
Transliteration: prôbhur bakyô
Doctrine: Gospel
Original: ὁ λόγος τοῦ Κυρίου
Category: Gospel
NEW. The gospel message, viewed as an active, spreading force, for whose unhindered advance Paul requests prayer (3:1). Related to the Romans TM concept সুসমাচাৰ প্ৰচাৰ (gospel proclamation).
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