Core Glossary

Core Glossary — Ephesians | English → Bavarian

This glossary consolidates every load-bearing theological term identified in 07_semantic_analysis.md, spanning Ephesians 1–6. Terms already present in the baseline Romans translation_memory.json are marked (baseline reuse) and MUST use the exact recorded Bavarian rendering; no alternative spelling or word choice is permitted. Terms new to this curriculum are marked (NEW) and are proposed here for the first time, pending Phase 2 Step 17 review and formal addition to translation_memory.json.

Risk tiers follow the definitions in the baseline doctrine_risk_registry.json: Critical and High require human theologian review; Medium requires native speaker review; Low requires automated review (with mandatory native-speaker dialect/orthography spot-check per the baseline’s standing rule for all Bavarian output).

Glossary Table

#	English Term	Greek (original)	Transliteration	Bavarian Rendering	Status	Risk	Doctrine	Key Passages	Collision / Risk Note
1	grace	χάρις	charis	Gnad	baseline reuse	High	Salvation by Grace through Faith	1:2,6,7; 2:5,7,8; 4:7	Devotional-transaction undertone (pilgrimage vows, Altötting) must be resisted; see baseline.
2	faith	πίστις	pistis	Glaam	baseline reuse	Medium	Salvation by Grace through Faith	2:8; 3:12; 4:5,13; 6:16	Personal trust in Christ, not generic religiosity.
3	salvation / saved	σωτηρία / σέσωσμαι	sōtēria / sesōsmai	Erlösung	baseline reuse	High	Salvation by Grace through Faith	2:5,8; 6:17	Avoid “Heil” (Nazi-era contamination, acute in Bavaria/Munich).
4	works	ἔργα	erga	Werk	NEW	Critical	Salvation by Grace through Faith	2:9-10	The passage’s central grace/merit antithesis; acute folk-Catholic works/merit collision risk (Altötting votive practice). Mandatory theologian review.
5	gift (of salvation)	δῶρον	dōron	Gschenk	NEW	Critical	Salvation by Grace through Faith	2:8	Must NOT be collapsed with Gnodngob’n (χάρισμα, spiritual gifts, already in baseline) — distinct referents: salvation itself vs. ministry enablement.
6	dead (in sin)	νεκρός	nekros	”gestorbn”	NEW	Medium	Salvation by Grace through Faith	2:1,5	Must convey total incapacity, not mere weakness.
7	made alive together	συζωοποιέω	synzōopoieō	”mitn Christus lebendig gmacht”	NEW	High	Salvation by Grace through Faith	2:5	Union-with-Christ compound; track alongside συνήγειρεν/συνεκάθισεν.
8	trespasses	παράπτωμα	paraptōma	fold into Sünd or “Fehltritt”	NEW	Low-Medium	Universal Human Accountability	1:7; 2:1,5	Near-synonym doubling with ἁμαρτία; minor rhetorical loss acceptable.
9	sin	ἁμαρτία	hamartia	Sünd	baseline reuse	High	Universal Human Accountability	2:1	Colloquial “what a shame” trivialization risk persists.
10	by nature	φύσει	physei	”vo Natur aus”	NEW	High	Universal Human Accountability	2:3	Must convey inherent, not merely acquired, sinfulness.
11	wrath	ὀργή	orgē	”Zorn”	NEW	Medium	Universal Human Accountability	2:3; 5:6	God’s righteous judicial wrath, not petty anger; must resolve into mercy (2:4).
12	mercy	ἔλεος	eleos	Barmherzigkeit	NEW	Medium-High	Salvation by Grace through Faith	2:4	Strong Marian-devotional resonance risks displacing God’s direct mercy with a Marian-mediated frame.
13	love	ἀγάπη	agapē	Liab	NEW	Medium	Household Codes / Salvation by Grace	2:4; 3:17-19; 5:2,25,28	Defaults to romantic/familial affection in daily speech; self-giving, cross-shaped sense must be reinforced contextually, esp. at 5:25.
14	walk (conduct of life)	περιπατέω	peripateō	wandln	NEW	Medium-High	Walking in Newness of Life	2:2,10; 4:1,17; 5:2,8,15	Governs the letter’s ethical metaphor; must be rendered identically at every occurrence to preserve the old-walk/new-walk inclusio (esp. 2:2 vs. 2:10).
15	desires / lusts	ἐπιθυμία	epithymia	”Gluschtn”	NEW	Medium	Universal Human Accountability	2:3	Live dialect word for craving/appetite; risks trivializing to mere food-craving register.
16	boast	καυχάομαι	kauchaomai	”sich rühma”	NEW	Medium	Salvation by Grace through Faith	2:9	Low collision; culturally legible concept.
17	workmanship	ποίημα	poiēma	Gschöpf	NEW	Medium	Walking in Newness of Life	2:10	Conveys God’s craftsmanship/identity-giving, not diminished worth.
18	created	κτίζω	ktizō	”gschaffa”	NEW	Medium	Christian Identity in Christ	2:10; 4:24	Ties to Romans-baseline identity-in-Christ framework.
19	heavenly places	ἐπουράνιος	epouranios	”s’Himmlische” / “de himmlischn Örter”	NEW	Medium	Church as Body of Christ / Spiritual Warfare	1:3,20; 2:6; 3:10; 6:12	Links triumphant Christology (ch.1-2) to spiritual battle (ch.6); track consistently across all 5 occurrences.
20	apostle	ἀπόστολος	apostolos	Apostl	baseline reuse	Low	Apostleship	1:1; 4:11	Stable borrowed term.
21	saints	ἅγιοι	hagioi	Heiling	baseline reuse	High	Sainthood	1:1,15,18; 3:8,18; 5:3; 6:18	Must be glossed “alle Gläubign” per forbidden-substitution list; defaults to canonized/patron saints.
22	holy	ἅγιος	hagios	heilig	baseline reuse	Medium	Sanctification	1:4; 5:27	Moral/relational set-apartness.
23	election / chose	ἐκλέγομαι	eklegomai	Erwählung	baseline reuse	High	Election and Predestination in Christ	1:4	Register-gap term; no lived predestination-controversy tradition in Bavarian Catholic culture.
24	predestined	προορίζω	proorizō	Vorherbestimmung / “vorherbestimmt”	NEW	Critical	Election and Predestination in Christ	1:5,11	New, more explicit doctrine than Romans; borrowed abstraction, no folk coinage; mandatory theologian review at every occurrence.
25	adoption	υἱοθεσία	huiothesia	Kindschaft	baseline reuse	Medium	Adoption into God’s Family	1:5	Full son-status, not provisional.
26	redemption	ἀπολύτρωσις	apolytrōsis	Erlösung (with “durchs Bluat” nuance note)	baseline reuse (nuanced)	High	Salvation by Grace through Faith	1:7,14; 4:30	Carries specific “ransom by blood” nuance not to be flattened to generic rescue.
27	forgiveness	ἄφεσις	aphesis	Vergebung	NEW	Medium	Salvation by Grace through Faith	1:7	Low collision; familiar via Confession.
28	mystery	μυστήριον	mystērion	Gheimnis	NEW	Critical	The Mystery of Christ Revealed	1:9; 3:3,4,9; 5:32; 6:19	MAJOR COLLISION: Rosary’s “Geheimnisse” (Joyful/Sorrowful/Glorious Mysteries) risks pulling term toward private devotional-meditation frame instead of Paul’s publicly-disclosed truth. Mandatory theologian review.
29	stewardship / plan	οἰκονομία	oikonomia	”Plan” / “Hausordnung Gottes”	NEW	Medium	The Mystery of Christ Revealed	1:10; 3:2,9	Register-gap abstraction; low folk collision.
30	fullness	πλήρωμα	plērōma	Füll	NEW	High	The Mystery of Christ Revealed / Church as Body of Christ	1:10,23; 3:19; 4:13	Recurs across four doctrines; must be rendered consistently at all occurrences.
31	inheritance	κληρονομία	klēronomia	Erbschaft	NEW	Medium-High	Election and Predestination in Christ	1:11,14,18; 5:5	Bavarian farm-inheritance (Erbhof) culture gives vivid but risky literal-property resonance.
32	sealed	σφραγίζω	sphragizō	”versiegelt”	NEW	Medium	Election and Predestination in Christ	1:13; 4:30	Ownership/security sense must be conveyed, not merely “closed.”
33	guarantee / down payment	ἀρραβών	arrabōn	Pfand	NEW	Medium	Election and Predestination in Christ	1:14	Live modern word (bottle deposit) risks trivializing the Spirit’s guarantee into a mundane transaction.
34	revelation	ἀποκάλυψις	apokalypsis	Offenbarung	NEW	Medium	The Mystery of Christ Revealed	1:17; 3:3	Standard, liturgically familiar borrowed term.
35	power (of God)	δύναμις	dynamis	Kraft vo Gott	baseline reuse	Medium	Power of God for Salvation	1:19; 3:16,20; 6:10	Sovereign, saving capability.
36	working / operative power	ἐνέργεια	energeia	”Wirkung”	NEW	Medium	Power of God for Salvation	1:19; 3:7,20	Register-gap abstraction.
37	head	κεφαλή	kephalē	Haupt	NEW	Critical	Church as Body of Christ / Household Codes	1:22; 4:15; 5:23	Household-codes application (husband/wife) compounds the headship-authority collision; must be paired with 5:25’s self-sacrifice qualifier.
38	body (of Christ)	σῶμα	sōma	Leib	NEW	Critical	Church as the Body of Christ	1:22-23; 2:16; 3:6; 4:4,12,16,25; 5:23,30	MAJOR COLLISION: identical to the Eucharistic “Leib Christi” said at every Mass; risks conflating ecclesiology with sacramental theology. Mandatory theologian review at every occurrence.
39	church	ἐκκλησία	ekklēsia	Kirch	baseline reuse	High	Church as God’s People / Body of Christ	1:22; 3:10,21; 5:23-32	Defaults to physical parish building/Kirchweih festival culture, per baseline.
40	circumcision / uncircumcision	περιτομή / ἀκροβυστία	peritomē / akrobystia	”Beschneidung” / “Unbeschnittne”	NEW	Medium	Unity of Jews and Gentiles	2:11	Requires OT/Jewish covenant-identity background teaching.
41	strangers / aliens	ξένος / πάροικος	xenos / paroikos	”Fremde und Ausländer”	NEW	Low-Medium	Unity of Jews and Gentiles	2:12,19	Low collision.
42	dividing wall	μεσότοιχον τοῦ φραγμοῦ	mesotoichon tou phragmou	Trennwand	NEW	Medium	Unity of Jews and Gentiles	2:14	Requires Second Temple architectural background teaching.
43	enmity	ἔχθρα	echthra	”Feindschaft”	NEW	Medium	Unity of Jews and Gentiles	2:14,16	Active hostility, not mere difference.
44	one new man / new humanity	καινὸς ἄνθρωπος	kainos anthrōpos	oa neuer Mensch	NEW	Critical	Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity	2:15	Given Munich’s specific Nazi-movement history, requires heightened historically-aware handling per baseline precedent. Mandatory theologian review.
45	reconciliation	ἀποκαταλλάσσω / καταλλαγή	apokatallassō / katallagē	Versöhnung	NEW	Critical	Unity of Jews and Gentiles / Church as Body of Christ	2:16	MAJOR COLLISION: identical to “Sakrament der Versöhnung” (Confession); risks pulling Christ’s once-for-all cross-work toward a repeatable ritual-confession frame. Mandatory theologian review.
46	access	προσαγωγή	prosagōgē	”Zugang”	NEW	Medium	Unity of Jews and Gentiles	2:18; 3:12	Low-medium collision.
47	fellow-citizens / household of God	συμπολίτης / οἰκεῖος τοῦ θεοῦ	sympolitēs / oikeios tou theou	”Mitbürger” / “Hausleit vo Gott”	NEW	Low-Medium	Unity of Jews and Gentiles	2:19	Corporate-belonging language, low collision.
48	cornerstone / building / temple	ἀκρογωνιαῖος / οἰκοδομή / ναός	akrogōniaios / oikodomē / naos	”Eckstein” / “Bau” / “heiliger Tempel”	NEW	Medium	Church as God’s People	2:20-21	No living Bavarian temple architecture; strong general church-building association reinforces baseline Kirch-building default.
49	dwelling place	κατοικητήριον	katoikētērion	”Wohnung Gottes”	NEW	Low-Medium	Church as God’s People	2:22	Low collision.
50	fellow-heirs / same body / fellow-partakers	συγκληρονόμος / σύσσωμος / συμμέτοχος	synklēronomos / syssōmos / symmetochos	”Miterben” / “gleicher Leib” / “Mitteilhaber”	NEW	High	Unity of Jews and Gentiles / Mystery of Christ	3:6	σύν- (“mit-”) compound family; explicit content of the “mystery” — pair every occurrence of Gheimnis with this plain content.
51	rulers / authorities (spiritual)	ἀρχή / ἐξουσία	archē / exousia	Mächt und Gwalten	NEW	Critical	Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God	1:21; 2:2; 3:10; 6:12	Alpine folk-supernatural tradition (Rauhnächte, Perchten, witch-lore) risks assimilation into apotropaic-ritual framework rather than Christ’s decisive victory. Mandatory theologian review.
52	boldness	παρρησία	parrēsia	”Zuversicht” / “Freimut”	NEW	Low-Medium	Mystery of Christ Revealed	3:12; 6:19,20	Low collision.
53	inner man	ἔσω ἄνθρωπος	esō anthrōpos	”s’Inwendige” / “innerer Mensch”	NEW	Medium	Walking in Newness of Life	3:16	Register-gap abstraction.
54	rooted and grounded (in love)	ῥιζόω / θεμελιόω	rhizoō / themelioō	”verwurzelt und gegründet”	NEW	Medium	Household Codes / Christian Identity	3:17	Horticultural/architectural double-metaphor, translates naturally.
55	humility, gentleness, patience	ταπεινοφροσύνη, πραΰτης, μακροθυμία	tapeinophrosynē, prautēs, makrothymia	Demuat, Sanftmuat, Langmuat	NEW	Low-Medium	Unity of the Spirit	4:2	Attested “-muat” compound pattern; natural, warm dialect fit.
56	unity of the Spirit	ἑνότης τοῦ Πνεύματος	henotēs tou Pneumatos	Oanheit vom Geist	NEW	Critical	Unity of the Church (extends Unity of Jews/Gentiles doctrine)	4:3	Reuses “Oanheit” root from baseline unity_of_jews_and_gentiles doctrine name for cross-curriculum consistency. Mandatory theologian review.
57	baptism	βάπτισμα	baptisma	Taufe	NEW	Low	Church as Body of Christ	4:5	Stable, universally practiced sacrament; dialect variant “Dauf” attested but not preferred in writing.
58	gift / gift given	δωρεά / δόμα	dōrea / doma	fold into Gnodngob’n family	NEW (family with baseline)	Medium	Gifts for Building Up the Church	4:7-8	Distinct from δῶρον (2:8, salvation itself) — do not conflate referents.
59	evangelist	εὐαγγελιστής	euangelistēs	Evangelist	NEW	High	Gifts for Building Up the Church	4:11	Collides with Catholic “die vier Evangelisten” (Gospel-writers); requires clarifying gloss.
60	pastor / shepherd	ποιμήν	poimēn	Hirt	NEW	Low	Gifts for Building Up the Church	4:11	Positive resonance: live Alpine pastoral culture + “Hirtenbrief” tradition.
61	teacher	διδάσκαλος	didaskalos	”Lehrer”	NEW	Low	Gifts for Building Up the Church	4:11	Low collision.
62	equipping (of the saints)	καταρτισμός	katartismos	Ausrüstung	NEW	Medium	Gifts for Building Up the Church	4:12	Shares root with ch.6’s armor vocabulary — useful pedagogical link.
63	building up (edification)	οἰκοδομή	oikodomē	Erbauung (as “d’Erbauung vom Leib”)	baseline reuse (extended)	Medium	Mutual Edification / Church as Body of Christ	2:21; 4:12,16,29	Extends Romans baseline’s “gegenseitige Erbauung” to the body-of-Christ metaphor explicitly.
64	old self / old man	παλαιὸς ἄνθρωπος	palaios anthrōpos	”der oide Mensch”	NEW	Critical	Walking in Newness of Life	4:22	Paired verb pattern “ausziehn” (take off) — reuse same verb pair at 6:11 armor “put on” for authorial-link consistency.
65	new self / new man	καινὸς ἄνθρωπος (individual sense)	kainos anthrōpos	”der neue Mensch”	NEW	Critical	Walking in Newness of Life	4:24	Same phrase as 2:15’s corporate “new man” — individual application; verb “anziehn” (put on).
66	devil	διάβολος	diabolos	Teufel	NEW	Medium	Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God	4:27; 6:11	Collides with folk-carnival devil figure (Krampus/Perchten); distinguish from serious spiritual adversary.
67	grieve (the Spirit)	λυπέω	lypeō	”traurig macha”	NEW	Low	Sanctification	4:30	Low collision.
68	imitators (of God)	μιμητής	mimētēs	”Nochfolger”	NEW	Low	Walking in Newness of Life	5:1	Low collision.
69	offering and sacrifice	προσφορά / θυσία	prosphora / thysia	Gob und Opfer	NEW	High	Household Codes / Salvation by Grace	5:2	Collides with “Messopfer” (Mass sacrifice); risks implying Christ’s sacrifice is repeated rather than once-for-all.
70	children of light / darkness	τέκνα φωτός / σκότος	tekna phōtos / skotos	”Kinder vom Liacht” / “Finsternis”	NEW	Low-Medium	Walking in Newness of Life	5:8	Low collision.
71	filled with the Spirit	πληρόω (πληροῦσθε)	plēroō	”erfüllt sei vom Geist”	NEW	Medium	Walking in Newness of Life	5:18	Shares root with Füll/πλήρωμα family.
72	submitting to one another	ὑποτάσσομαι	hypotassomai	unterordna	NEW	Critical	Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships	5:21,22,24	Flagship term; mutuality of 5:21 must remain visibly connected to 5:22’s specific application. Mandatory theologian review.
73	savior	σωτήρ	sōtēr	Retter (caution: “Heiland” attested but Heil-root caution applies)	NEW	Critical	Household Codes / Salvation	5:23	Same Bavaria-specific Heil-root caution as baseline salvation entry; “Retter” preferred default.
74	one flesh	μία σάρξ	mia sarx	”oa Fleisch”	NEW	Low-Medium	Household Codes	5:31	Genesis 2:24 quotation; low collision.
75	slave / servant	δοῦλος	doulos	Sklave	NEW	High	Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships	6:5-9	Avoid “Knecht” (Bavarian agrarian farmhand role) — risks softening ancient slavery’s moral weight into benign historical farm-labor relationship.
76	favoritism	προσωπολημψία	prosōpolēmpsia	”Bevorzugung”	NEW	Low	Household Codes	6:9	Low collision.
77	armor (of God)	πανοπλία	panoplia	Waffenrüstung vo Gott / Rüstung	NEW	High	Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God	6:11,13	Shares root with ch.4 “equipping”; medieval/knightly imagery culturally legible; guard against militarist/nationalist misreading.
78	wrestle / struggle	πάλη	palē	Ringa	NEW	High	Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God	6:12	AVOID “Kampf” — Nazi-era contamination risk (Mein Kampf), same logic as baseline’s Heil caution, arguably sharper in Bavaria/Munich.
79	prayer and supplication	προσευχή / δέησις	proseuchē / deēsis	reuse Fürbitt family	baseline reuse	High	Prayer and Intercession	6:18	Altötting Marian-intercession collision risk persists per baseline.
80	ambassador	πρεσβεύω	presbeuō	”Gsandter”	NEW	Low	Christ-Centered Ministry	6:20	Low collision.

Cross-Reference Notes for Phase 2

Terms #38 (Leib, body of Christ), #28 (Gheimnis, mystery), #51 (Mächt und Gwalten, spiritual powers), #44 (oa neuer Mensch, one new man), #45 (Versöhnung, reconciliation), #56 (Oanheit vom Geist, unity of the Spirit), #72 (unterordna, submission), #73 (Retter/Heiland, savior), and #24 (Vorherbestimmung, predestined) are the nine highest-priority Critical-risk NEW terms introduced by this curriculum and require dedicated entries in an updated doctrine_risk_registry.json before Phase 2 begins.
All baseline-reuse terms in this table are locked exactly as recorded in the Romans translation_memory.json; no deviation is permitted regardless of Ephesians-specific context.
Every NEW term in this glossary must be added to translation_memory.json with an assigned version increment before Phase 2 segment translation of the chapter in which it first appears, per the escalation procedure in 12_ai_translation_requirements.md.

Critical Risk Terms

Righteousness

Approved rendering: Gerechtigkeit
Transliteration: Gerechtigkeit
Doctrine: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. Occurs in Ephesians within the armor-of-God metaphor (‘breastplate of righteousness’, 6:14); the borrowed standard-German compound must not be diluted by the surrounding military-narrative register.

Son Of God

Approved rendering: Sohn vo Gott
Transliteration: Sohn vom Gott
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Original: υἱὸς τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Christology

Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 4:13 (‘knowledge of the Son of God’) and underlies 1:20-23’s cosmic headship language; requires the same uncompromising, co-equal-deity rendering established in Romans.

Works

Approved rendering: Werk
Transliteration: Werk
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Original: ἔργα
Category: Salvation

NEW. The single most doctrinally load-bearing new term in the core passage (2:9-10). Ordinary, low-register farm/craft-labor word now bearing the sola-gratia antithesis; Altötting votive-offering piety is the most acute works/merit collision risk in the letter. The identical word must carry unmistakably different valence at 2:9 (excluded as basis) versus 2:10 (affirmed as fruit); mandatory human theologian review at every occurrence.

Gift Of Salvation

Approved rendering: Gschenk
Transliteration: Gschenk
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Rejected alternatives: Gnodngob’n (rejected: distinct referent, ministry enablement not salvation itself)
Original: δῶρον
Category: Salvation

NEW. Renders δῶρον at 2:8 — salvation itself as God’s gift. Must NEVER be collapsed with Gnodngob’n (χάρισμα, spiritual gifts) or with δωρεά/δόμα (Christ’s ministry gifts, 4:7-8); losing this distinction erases Paul’s referential precision.

Head

Approved rendering: Haupt
Transliteration: Haupt
Doctrine: Church as the Body of Christ
Original: κεφαλή
Category: Christology

NEW. Renders κεφαλή at 1:22; 4:15; 5:23. The household-codes application at 5:23 (husband as head of wife) compounds the headship-authority collision already present for Christ’s headship over the church; must always be taught paired with 5:25’s self-sacrificial-love qualifier, which the Bavarian rendering cannot itself enforce grammatically.

Body Of Christ

Approved rendering: Leib
Transliteration: Leib
Doctrine: The Church as the Body of Christ
Rejected alternatives: Körper (rejected: clinically anatomical, loses the theological metaphor entirely)
Original: σῶμα
Category: Christology

NEW. Renders σῶμα at 1:22-23; 2:16; 3:6; 4:4,12,16,25; 5:23,30. MAJOR COLLISION: identical to the Eucharistic ‘Der Leib Christi’ spoken over the consecrated host at every Bavarian Mass. No substitute word exists; mandate a companion clarifying phrase at first occurrence per unit (‘mir, de Gmoaschaft vo alle Gläubign, san sein Leib’). Mandatory human theologian review at every occurrence.

Savior

Approved rendering: Retter
Transliteration: Retta
Doctrine: Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships
Rejected alternatives: Heiland (permitted only in clearly traditional devotional contexts with reviewer sign-off)
Original: σωτήρ
Category: Christology

NEW. Renders σωτήρ at 5:23. Avoid the beloved devotional term ‘Heiland’ (alive in Christmas-carol and chapel-name usage) as default, given the same Bavaria-specific Heil-root contamination caution documented in the baseline for salvation (Munich’s historic role as the Nazi movement’s headquarters). Pastoral teaching must make clear this headship/savior analogy is defined by 5:25’s self-sacrificial love.

One New Man

Approved rendering: oa neuer Mensch
Transliteration: oa neua Mensch
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity
Original: καινὸς ἄνθρωπος
Category: Church

NEW. Renders καινὸς ἄνθρωπος at 2:15. Given Munich’s specific historic role as the Nazi movement’s headquarters, this phrase requires heightened, historically-aware handling beyond the general German-language risk already documented in the Romans baseline for Jew/Gentile unity language. Always anchor ‘in Christus’ within the same clause; never let the phrase stand as a free-floating unity slogan. Mandatory theologian review at every occurrence.

Reconciliation

Approved rendering: Versöhnung
Transliteration: Versöhnung
Doctrine: Reconciliation through the Cross
Original: ἀποκαταλλάσσω / καταλλαγή
Category: Church

NEW. Renders ἀποκαταλλάσσω/καταλλαγή at 2:16. MAJOR COLLISION: identical to the post-Vatican-II Bavarian Catholic name for the Sacrament of Confession, ‘das Sakrament der Versöhnung’. Christ’s once-for-all cross-work must always be marked as a completed, historical, unrepeatable act (‘scho amal für ollzeit gschehn’), never phrased as an ongoing sacramental process. Mandatory theologian review at every occurrence.

Unity Of The Spirit

Approved rendering: Oanheit vom Geist
Transliteration: Oanheit vom Gaist
Doctrine: Unity of the Spirit in the Church
Original: ἑνότητα τοῦ Πνεύματος
Category: Church

NEW. Renders ἑνότητα τοῦ Πνεύματος at 4:3, followed by the sevenfold ‘one body, one Spirit… one God and Father’ formula (4:4-6). Deliberately reuses the ‘Oanheit’ root from the Romans baseline’s unity-of-Jews-and-Gentiles doctrine name for cross-curriculum consistency. This is the letter’s central ecclesial-unity term; mandatory theologian review.

Predestined

Approved rendering: vorherbestimmt / Vorherbestimmung
Transliteration: vorherbestimmt / Vorherbestimmung
Doctrine: Election and Predestination in Christ
Original: προορίζω
Category: Election

NEW. Renders προορίζω at 1:5,11. Borrowed as-is from standard German following the same register-gap pattern as Erwählung and Rechtfertigung — no native dialect coinage exists at all. Ephesians states this doctrine more explicitly and repeatedly than Romans 8-9; mandatory human theologian review at every occurrence. Do not invent a folk coinage here.

Mystery

Approved rendering: Gheimnis
Transliteration: Geheimnis
Doctrine: The Mystery of Christ Revealed
Original: μυστήριον
Category: Mystery

NEW. Renders μυστήριον at 1:9; 3:3,4,9; 5:32; 6:19. MAJOR COLLISION: identical to the Rosary’s Joyful/Sorrowful/Glorious/Luminous ‘Geheimnisse’, one of the most devotionally central words in Bavarian Catholic piety, pulling toward private meditative devotion rather than Paul’s sense of a formerly hidden truth now publicly disclosed. Also collides with Anthroposophy’s ‘Mysterium’ esoteric-initiation frame. Never let stand unglossed; pair with its plain content (fellow-heirs, same body, fellow-partakers, 3:6). Mandatory theologian review at every occurrence.

Old Self

Approved rendering: der oide Mensch
Transliteration: der olde Mensch
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Original: παλαιὸς ἄνθρωπος
Category: Sanctification

NEW. Renders παλαιὸς ἄνθρωπος at 4:22, ‘put off’ with the clothing-verb ‘ausziehn’, matching Paul’s own ἀπεκδύομαι imagery. The same verb family reappears for the armor of God at 6:11 (‘anziehn’), a deliberate authorial link the Bavarian rendering must preserve. Mandatory theologian review given the doctrine’s centrality to the curriculum.

New Self

Approved rendering: der neue Mensch
Transliteration: der neua Mensch
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Original: καινὸς ἄνθρωπος
Category: Sanctification

NEW. Renders καινὸς ἄνθρωπος (individual sense) at 4:24, ‘put on’ with the clothing-verb ‘anziehn’. Shares vocabulary with 2:15’s corporate ‘new man’ (one_new_man) but applied individually here; must not be confused with or collapsed into that corporate term.

Mutual Submission

Approved rendering: unterordna
Transliteration: untaordna
Doctrine: Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships
Original: ὑποτασσόμενοι ἀλλήλοις
Category: Household

NEW. Renders ὑποτασσόμενοι ἀλλήλοις at 5:21, the governing principle for the entire household code (5:22-6:9). The mutuality of 5:21 must remain visibly connected to 5:22’s specific wife-to-husband application; loss of this connective thread is doctrinally significant given contemporary sensitivities around gender and authority. Always render 5:21 and 5:22 as a single connected teaching unit. Mandatory theologian review.

Rulers And Authorities

Approved rendering: Mächt und Gwalten
Transliteration: Mächte und Gwoitn
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
Original: ἀρχαί, ἐξουσίαι, κοσμοκράτορες
Category: Spiritual Warfare

NEW. Renders ἀρχαί/ἐξουσίαι/κοσμοκράτορες at 1:21; 2:2; 3:10; 6:12. Bavarian Alpine folk culture’s unusually live belief in ambient malevolent spiritual forces (Rauhnächte house-blessings, Perchtenlauf, Walpurgisnacht witch-lore) risks assimilating Paul’s teaching into an apotropaic, ritual-warding framework rather than Christ’s decisive, already-won cosmic victory (1:20-22). Mandatory theologian review at every occurrence.

High Risk Terms

Grace

Approved rendering: Gnad
Transliteration: Gnod
Doctrine: Grace
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. In Ephesians this is the single most acute grace/works collision point in this curriculum (2:5,7,8; also 1:2,6,7; 4:7) given Bavarian Catholic folk piety’s devotional-transaction undertone at Altötting; must always resist that reading.

Salvation

Approved rendering: Erlösung
Transliteration: Erlesung
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: Heil (Nazi-era contamination risk, acute in Bavaria specifically)
Original: σωτηρία / σέσωσμαι
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians 2:5 and 2:8 must render the ‘by grace you have been saved’ clause identically per cross-document consistency rules; also 6:17 (‘helmet of salvation’).

Saints

Approved rendering: Heiling
Transliteration: de Heiling
Doctrine: Sainthood
Original: ἅγιοι
Category: Church

Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at least seven times in Ephesians (1:1,15,18; 3:8,18; 5:3; 6:18), more densely than in Romans; the ‘alle Gläubign’ gloss discipline must be sustained across the whole letter, not applied once.

Lord

Approved rendering: Herr
Transliteration: Herr
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology

Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians 6:9’s deliberate wordplay (‘their Master and yours is in heaven’) depends on kyrios carrying both ‘Lord’ and human ‘master’ simultaneously; preserve, do not smooth away, this ambiguity.

Church

Approved rendering: Kirch
Transliteration: Kircha
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Rejected alternatives: Gmoa (secular-administrative default, rejected)
Original: ἐκκλησία
Category: Church

Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 1:22; 3:10,21; 5:23-32; the temple/household-building imagery of 2:19-22 reinforces rather than corrects the building-centered default, requiring deliberate corporate-people teaching.

Law

Approved rendering: Gsetz
Transliteration: Gsötz
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy

Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 2:15 (‘the law of commandments and ordinances’) as the specific content of the abolished ‘dividing wall’.

Sin

Approved rendering: Sünd
Transliteration: Sind
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Original: ἁμαρτία
Category: Sin

Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 2:1; the colloquial Bavarian ‘a Sünd is des scho’ (what a shame/waste) trivialization risk applies with full force since it undergirds the entire ‘by grace’ argument of the core passage.

Election

Approved rendering: Erwählung
Transliteration: Erwöahlung
Doctrine: Effectual Calling
Original: ἐκλέγομαι
Category: Election

Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians 1:4 intensifies this Romans-documented register-gap risk by pairing eklegomai explicitly and repeatedly with the NEW term predestined (proorizo); see doctrine ‘Election and Predestination in Christ’.

Intercession

Approved rendering: Fürbitt
Transliteration: Fiabitt
Doctrine: Prayer and Intercession
Original: προσευχή / δέησις
Category: Faith

Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 1:16-19 (Paul’s prayer), 3:14-19 (Paul kneeling in prayer), 6:18-20 (intercession ‘for all the saints’); Altötting’s Marian/saint intercessory tradition risk applies at every occurrence.

Redemption

Approved rendering: Erlösung durchs Bluat vom Christus
Transliteration: Erlesung durchs Bluat vom Christus
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Original: ἀπολύτρωσις
Category: Salvation

NEW nuance of the baseline Erlösung term. Occurs at 1:7,14 and 4:30; carries a specific ‘ransom by blood’ nuance not to be flattened into the generic well-being/rescue sense of plain Erlösung.

By Nature

Approved rendering: vo Natur aus
Transliteration: vo Natua aus
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Original: φύσει
Category: Sin

NEW. Renders φύσει at 2:3. Must be rendered forcefully; a weak rendering risks implying sinfulness is optional or environmental only, undercutting the totality of grace argued in vv.4-9.

Mercy

Approved rendering: Barmherzigkeit
Transliteration: Barmherzigkeit
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Original: ἔλεος
Category: God

NEW. Renders ἔλεος at 2:4, the pivot of the core passage (‘But God, being rich in mercy’). Bavarian Catholic folk piety’s strong devotional tradition of mercy (Marian titles like ‘Mutter der Barmherzigkeit’, Divine Mercy devotion) risks a Marian-mediated frame rather than God the Father’s own direct mercy; anchor grammatically to ‘Gott der Voda’ in-context.

Fullness

Approved rendering: Füll
Transliteration: Fülle
Doctrine: The Mystery of Christ Revealed
Original: πλήρωμα
Category: Christology

NEW. Renders πλήρωμα at 1:10,23; 3:19; 4:13. Must be rendered consistently at all four occurrences given its role tying together Christology (1:10), ecclesiology (1:23), the Mystery doctrine (3:19), and the unity/maturity doctrine (4:13).

Fellow Heirs

Approved rendering: Miterben / gleicher Leib / Mitteilhaber
Transliteration: Mitearbn / gleicha Leib / Mitteilhaba
Doctrine: The Mystery of Christ Revealed
Original: συγκληρονόμα / σύσσωμα / συμμέτοχα
Category: Church

NEW. Renders the stacked σύν- compounds συγκληρονόμα/σύσσωμα/συμμέτοχα at 3:6, the explicit content of the mystery. Pair every occurrence of ‘Gheimnis’ with this plain-language content to counter the Rosary-devotional collision risk. Preserve the σύν- (‘mit-’) prefix pattern across renderings.

Inheritance

Approved rendering: Erbschaft
Transliteration: Erbschaft
Doctrine: Election and Predestination in Christ
Original: κληρονομία / κλῆρος
Category: Election

NEW. Renders κληρονομία/κλῆρος at 1:11,14,18; 5:5. Bavarian rural farm-inheritance culture (the historic Erbhof institution) gives this word unusually strong, concrete lived resonance — vividly conveying a real, secured possession, but risking a literal-property expectation rather than the purely spiritual, non-competitive inheritance Paul describes. Must be taught explicitly as non-competing.

Heavenly Places

Approved rendering: s’Himmlische / de himmlischn Örter
Transliteration: s’Himmlische / de himmlischn Eata
Doctrine: The Church as the Body of Christ
Original: ἐπουράνιος
Category: Church

NEW. Renders ἐπουράνιος at 1:3,20; 2:6; 3:10; 6:12. A key spatial-theological term linking the believer’s exalted position (2:6) to the spiritual battle (ch.6); must be tracked consistently across all five occurrences.

Slave

Approved rendering: Sklave
Transliteration: Sklave
Doctrine: Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships
Rejected alternatives: Knecht (the traditional Bavarian agrarian farmhand role — REJECTED: softens ancient chattel slavery’s moral weight into a benign historical farm-employment relationship)
Original: δοῦλος
Category: Household

NEW. Renders δοῦλος at 6:5-9. ‘Sklave’ preserves the term’s proper gravity; the passage’s actual pastoral thrust (mutual accountability before the one true Lord, exploiting the kyrios wordplay of 6:9) is taught explicitly alongside.

Armor Of God

Approved rendering: Waffenrüstung vo Gott
Transliteration: Woffnrüstung vom Gott
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
Original: πανοπλία τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Spiritual Warfare

NEW. Renders πανοπλία τοῦ θεοῦ at 6:11,13; shortened to ‘Rüstung’ in running text. Shares its root with the ch.4 ‘equipping’ vocabulary. Medieval/knightly imagery is culturally legible in Bavaria (castle/knightly regional heritage) — a modest protective factor — but must not be read as endorsing literal violence or nationalist militarism.

Spiritual Struggle

Approved rendering: Ringa
Transliteration: Ringa
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
Rejected alternatives: Kampf (REJECTED: Nazi-era contamination risk via ‘Mein Kampf’ and ‘Kampfgeist’ propaganda, arguably sharper in Bavaria given Munich’s historic role as the movement’s headquarters)
Original: πάλη
Category: Spiritual Warfare

NEW. Renders πάλη at 6:12, the wrestling-arena term for close-quarters combat. ‘Ringa’ is a live Bavarian wrestling-sport term preserving the arena nuance safely. Mainstream German Bible translations routinely use ‘Kampf’/‘Ringkampf’ here; this curriculum deliberately departs from that precedent.

Evangelist

Approved rendering: Evangelist
Transliteration: Evangelist
Doctrine: Gifts for Building Up the Church
Original: εὐαγγελιστής
Category: Ministry

NEW. Renders εὐαγγελιστής at 4:11, one of the fivefold ministry offices. In Bavarian Catholic tradition ‘Evangelist’ primarily denotes the four Gospel-writers (‘die vier Evangelisten’, a fixture of church art/stained glass), not a NT preaching office; requires a clarifying gloss (‘wer’s Evangelium predigt und weiterträgt’) wherever the 4:11 sense is intended.

Walk

Approved rendering: wandln
Transliteration: wandeln
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Original: περιπατέω
Category: Walking

NEW. Renders περιπατέω at 2:2,10; 4:1,17; 5:2,8,15 — the governing metaphor for a person’s whole manner of life. Must be rendered identically at every occurrence to preserve the deliberate old-walk/new-walk inclusio between 2:2 and 2:10; never substitute a synonym for stylistic variety even where the moral-trajectory sense must be reinforced contextually against the word’s literal ‘stroll’ meaning.

Offering And Sacrifice

Approved rendering: Gob und Opfer
Transliteration: Gab und Opfa
Doctrine: Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships

NEW. Renders προσφορὰν καὶ θυσίαν at 5:2, Christ’s self-giving death in explicit temple-sacrifice terms. Collides with ‘Messopfer’ (the sacrifice of the Mass), devotionally central and weekly repeated; risks implying Christ’s sacrifice is repeated rather than once-for-all. Must be marked explicitly as singular and historical.

Medium Risk Terms

Gospel

Approved rendering: Evangelium
Transliteration: Evangelium
Doctrine: Gospel
Original: εὐαγγέλιον
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. Stable, liturgically familiar borrowed term. In Ephesians appears at 1:13, 3:6, 6:15, 6:19 (‘word of truth’, ‘mystery of the gospel’, ‘gospel of peace’).

Faith

Approved rendering: Glaam
Transliteration: Gloam
Doctrine: Faith
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith

Inherited from Romans package. In Ephesians 2:8 faith must read as the instrumental channel of grace, never as a human contribution that itself earns salvation; also 3:12, 4:5,13, 6:16.

Called

Approved rendering: beruafa
Transliteration: beruaft
Doctrine: Divine Calling

Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians 4:1 ‘the calling to which you have been called’ reuses this verb pair.

Calling

Approved rendering: Beruafung
Transliteration: Berufung
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Original: κλῆσις
Category: Election

Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 1:18 and 4:1,4; per the forbidden-substitution list, must not collide unclarified with its everyday career-vocation sense.

Holy

Approved rendering: heilig
Transliteration: hoalig
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: ἅγιος
Category: Sanctification

Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 1:4 (election unto holiness) and 5:27 (the church presented holy and without blemish).

Sanctification

Approved rendering: Heiligung
Transliteration: Heiligung
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: ἁγιάζω
Category: Sanctification

Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 5:26 (Christ sanctifying the church); the ‘washing of water’ imagery must not be read as a second, distinct sacramental act apart from Christ’s own action.

Adoption

Approved rendering: Kindschaft
Transliteration: Kindschaft
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Rejected alternatives: Adoption (bare, legal-procedural)
Original: υἱοθεσία
Category: Election

Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 1:5, the goal of predestination; now additionally paired with the NEW term Erbschaft (inheritance) at 1:11,14,18.

Resurrection

Approved rendering: Aufersteh’ng
Transliteration: Auferstehung
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ

Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians 2:6 (‘raised us up with him’, synēgeiren) and 1:20 reuse this root within the new syn- compound ‘mitn Christus auferstanden’; track alongside the NEW term made_alive_together.

Spiritual Gifts

Approved rendering: Gnodngob’n
Transliteration: Gnadengaben
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts
Original: χάρισμα
Category: Ministry

Inherited from Romans package. Extended in Ephesians to cover δωρεά/δόμα (4:7-8, Christ’s gifts to the church) as one family; must remain distinct from the NEW term Gschenk (δῶρον, 2:8, salvation itself).

Fellowship

Approved rendering: Gmoaschaft
Transliteration: Gemoaschoft
Doctrine: Christian Fellowship

Inherited from Romans package. Recommended as the clarifying companion phrase alongside the NEW term Leib (body of Christ) at first occurrence per unit, to anchor the corporate sense against the Eucharistic-collision risk.

Kingdom Of God

Approved rendering: s’Reich vo Gott
Transliteration: des Reich vom Gott
Doctrine: Kingdom Mission

Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 5:5 (‘the kingdom of Christ and God’); distinguish from any political kingdom association.

Gentiles

Approved rendering: Heiden
Transliteration: Hoaden
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Original: ἔθνη
Category: Unity

Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 2:11; 3:1,6,8; retains the same pejorative undertone documented in the baseline.

Glory

Approved rendering: Herrlichkeit
Transliteration: Herrlichkeit
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: δόξα
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package. The doxological refrain ‘to the praise of his glory’ (1:6,12,14) must be rendered identically at each recurrence; also 3:16,21.

Power Of God

Approved rendering: Kraft vo Gott
Transliteration: Kroft vom Gott
Doctrine: Power of God for Salvation
Original: δύναμις
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 1:19-20, 3:7,16,20, 6:10; must retain the specific resurrection-power referent of 1:19-20, not a diffuse capability.

Messiah

Approved rendering: Messias
Transliteration: Messias
Doctrine: Messianic Promise

Inherited from Romans package. Ephesians uses ‘Christus’ predominantly as part of Jesus’ proper name/title (‘in Christ Jesus’) rather than invoking the Messias title directly; retained for curriculum completeness and background teaching on Christ’s messianic office.

Covenant

Approved rendering: Bund
Transliteration: Bund
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant

Inherited from Romans package. Background term for 2:12’s ‘covenants of promise’, from which Gentiles were formerly excluded.

Providence

Approved rendering: Vorsehung
Transliteration: Vorsehung
Doctrine: Providence

Inherited from Romans package. Background concept for 1:11 (‘according to the purpose of him who works all things’) and 3:20 (‘according to the power at work within us’).

Mission

Approved rendering: Mission
Transliteration: Mission
Doctrine: Mission to the Nations

Inherited from Romans package. Background concept for Paul’s ministry to the Gentiles described throughout chapter 3.

Israel

Approved rendering: Israel
Transliteration: Israel
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles

Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 2:12 (‘alienated from the commonwealth of Israel’); the same modern nation-state conflation risk documented in the baseline applies.

God

Approved rendering: Gott
Transliteration: Herrgott
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: θεός
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package. God the Father’s own direct initiative at 2:4 (‘But God, being rich in mercy’) must not be displaced by a Marian-mediated mercy frame; use plain ‘Gott’, reserve ‘Herrgott’ for warm folk-devotional contexts only.

Holy Spirit

Approved rendering: Heiliger Geist
Transliteration: Heiliga Geist
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 1:13-14 (seal and guarantee), 4:3-4 (agent of unity), 5:18 (filling); must not be rendered with a term for an impersonal life-force.

Father

Approved rendering: Voda
Transliteration: Voter
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Original: πατήρ
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 1:2-3,17; 3:14-15 (‘the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named’).

Forgiveness

Approved rendering: Vergebung
Transliteration: Vergebung
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Original: ἄφεσις
Category: Salvation

NEW. Occurs at 1:7, a concrete component of redemption. Low collision risk given familiarity via the Catholic sacrament of Confession, though see ‘reconciliation’ below for a sharper, distinct collision at 2:16.

Dead In Sin

Approved rendering: gestorbn
Transliteration: gschtorbn
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Original: νεκρός
Category: Sin

NEW. Renders νεκρός at 2:1,5. Must convey total spiritual incapacity, not sickness, weakness, or mere moral struggle; v.5’s ‘made alive’ must complete the death/life contrast unambiguously.

Trespasses

Approved rendering: Sünd / Fehltritt
Transliteration: Sind / Fehltritt
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Original: παράπτωμα
Category: Sin

NEW. Renders παράπτωμα (1:7; 2:1,5), paired with ἁμαρτία as a near-synonym for rhetorical weight. No native dialect coinage distinct from Sünd exists; fold into Sünd in ordinary register or use Fehltritt when the text visibly pairs it with hamartia. Loss of the doubling is acceptable register simplification, not doctrinal loss.

Wrath

Approved rendering: Zorn
Transliteration: Zorn
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Original: ὀργή
Category: Sin

NEW. Renders ὀργή at 2:3 and 5:6. Colloquial ‘Zorn’ can denote mere irritability; must be anchored as God’s righteous judicial wrath, never left standing alone as capricious — it is immediately resolved into mercy at 2:4.

Desires

Approved rendering: Gluschtn
Transliteration: Gluschten
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Original: ἐπιθυμία
Category: Sin

NEW. Renders ἐπιθυμία at 2:3. A genuinely live dialect word for appetite/craving (e.g. of food), giving excellent register authenticity but risking trivialization of sinful desire into harmless appetite; the surrounding clause (‘of the flesh’) must carry the moral weight.

Love

Approved rendering: Liab
Transliteration: Liabe
Doctrine: Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships
Original: ἀγάπη
Category: God

NEW. Renders ἀγάπη at 2:4; 3:17-19; 5:2,25,28. Everyday dialect ‘Liab’ defaults readily to romantic/familial affection; the self-giving, cross-shaped dimension must be reinforced by context, especially at 5:25 where the same word must carry both marital tenderness and Christ’s sacrificial self-giving simultaneously.

Divine Working

Approved rendering: Wirkung
Transliteration: Wirkung
Doctrine: Power of God for Salvation
Original: ἐνέργεια
Category: God

NEW. Renders ἐνέργεια at 1:19; 3:7,20; register-gap abstraction, parallel to Kraft vo Gott.

Fellow Citizens

Approved rendering: Mitbürger / Hausleit vo Gott
Transliteration: Mitbiaga / Hausleit vom Gott
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity
Original: συμπολῖται / οἰκεῖοι τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Church

NEW. Renders συμπολῖται/οἰκεῖοι τοῦ θεοῦ at 2:19. Corporate-belonging language; low-medium collision risk.

Cornerstone Temple

Approved rendering: Eckstein / heiliger Tempel
Transliteration: Eckstoa / hoaliga Tempel
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Original: ἀκρογωνιαῖος / ναὸς ἅγιος
Category: Church

NEW. Renders ἀκρογωνιαῖος/ναὸς ἅγιος at 2:20-21. No living Bavarian temple architecture; strong general church-building association reinforces the baseline’s documented Kirch-building default, so the corporate-people sense requires deliberate teaching alongside this metaphor.

Dwelling Place

Approved rendering: Wohnung Gottes
Transliteration: Wohnung vom Gott
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Original: κατοικητήριον
Category: Church

NEW. Renders κατοικητήριον at 2:22, the church as a Spirit-indwelt dwelling place. Low-medium collision; straightforward extension of the temple metaphor.

Building Up

Approved rendering: d’Erbauung vom Leib
Transliteration: d’Erbauung vom Leib
Doctrine: Mutual Edification
Original: οἰκοδομή
Category: Church

NEW extension of the Romans-baseline mutual-edification pattern. Renders οἰκοδομή at 2:21; 4:12,16,29, now explicitly applied to the body-of-Christ metaphor.

Sealed

Approved rendering: versiegelt
Transliteration: versiegelt
Doctrine: Election and Predestination in Christ
Original: σφραγίζω
Category: Election

NEW. Renders σφραγίζω at 1:13; 4:30. Must convey the ownership/security sense, not merely ‘closed up’. CAUTION: ‘Heilige Versiegelung’ is a distinct New Apostolic Church sacrament administered exclusively by living apostles; must never suggest sealing is a churchly ordinance rather than the Spirit’s own act at the moment of belief. Flag for theologian review wherever co-occurring with ‘Apostl’ in the same passage (e.g. ch.1).

Guarantee

Approved rendering: Pfand
Transliteration: Pfand
Doctrine: Election and Predestination in Christ
Original: ἀρραβών
Category: Election

NEW. Renders ἀρραβών at 1:14, the Spirit as first installment of the believer’s inheritance. Genuinely live modern Bavarian word (bottle/container deposit) risks trivializing the Spirit’s guarantee into a mundane commercial transaction; frame explicitly as God’s own guarantee of a certain future.

Stewardship

Approved rendering: Plan / Hausordnung Gottes
Transliteration: Plan / Hausordnung vom Gott
Doctrine: The Mystery of Christ Revealed
Original: οἰκονομία
Category: Mystery

NEW. Renders οἰκονομία at 1:10; 3:2,9. Register-gap abstraction; low folk collision.

Revelation

Approved rendering: Offenbarung
Transliteration: Offenbarung
Doctrine: The Mystery of Christ Revealed
Original: ἀποκάλυψις
Category: Mystery

NEW. Renders ἀποκάλυψις at 1:17; 3:3. Standard, liturgically familiar borrowed term.

Boldness

Approved rendering: Zuversicht / Freimut
Transliteration: Zuvasicht / Freimuat
Doctrine: The Mystery of Christ Revealed
Original: παρρησία
Category: Mystery

NEW. Renders παρρησία at 3:12; 6:19-20. Low-medium collision; culturally legible concept of confident speech.

Inner Man

Approved rendering: s’Inwendige / innerer Mensch
Transliteration: s’Inwendige / inera Mensch
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Original: ἔσω ἄνθρωπος
Category: Sanctification

NEW. Renders ἔσω ἄνθρωπος at 3:16, the locus of the Spirit’s strengthening; anticipates the new-self language of 4:22-24.

Rooted And Grounded

Approved rendering: verwurzelt und gegründet
Transliteration: verwuazelt und gegründet
Doctrine: Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships
Original: ἐρριζωμένοι καὶ τεθεμελιωμένοι
Category: Sanctification

NEW. Renders ἐρριζωμένοι καὶ τεθεμελιωμένοι at 3:17, rooted in love (Liab). Horticultural-architectural double metaphor; translates naturally, low collision.

Filled With The Spirit

Approved rendering: erfüllt sei vom Geist
Transliteration: efüllt sei vom Gaist
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Original: πληροῦσθε ἐν Πνεύματι
Category: Sanctification

NEW. Renders πληροῦσθε ἐν Πνεύματι at 5:18, contrasted with drunkenness; shares its root with Füll/πλήρωμα family, and is the empowering source of the household-code obedience that follows.

Circumcision

Approved rendering: Beschneidung / Unbeschnittne
Transliteration: Beschneidung / Unbeschnittne
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity
Original: περιτομή / ἀκροβυστία
Category: Unity

NEW. Renders περιτομή/ἀκροβυστία at 2:11. Requires explanatory OT/covenant background teaching; render literally rather than paraphrase, to keep the concrete Jew/Gentile identity marker visible.

Strangers

Approved rendering: Fremde und Ausländer
Transliteration: Fremde und Auslända
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity
Original: ξένοι / πάροικοι
Category: Unity

NEW. Renders ξένοι/πάροικοι at 2:12,19, the Gentiles’ former exclusion from covenant belonging. Legible, low-medium collision.

Dividing Wall

Approved rendering: Trennwand
Transliteration: Trennwand
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity
Original: μεσότοιχον τοῦ φραγμοῦ
Category: Unity

NEW. Renders μεσότοιχον τοῦ φραγμοῦ at 2:14, the Second Temple’s Jew/Gentile partition used metaphorically. Historical-temple background must be taught alongside; the metaphor of a wall coming down translates naturally on its own.

Enmity

Approved rendering: Feindschaft
Transliteration: Feindschoft
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity
Original: ἔχθρα
Category: Unity

NEW. Renders ἔχθρα at 2:14,16, active mutual hostility destroyed by Christ’s cross. Must convey active hostility, not merely passive difference.

Access

Approved rendering: Zugang
Transliteration: Zuagang
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity
Original: προσαγωγή
Category: Unity

NEW. Renders προσαγωγή at 2:18; 3:12, both Jew and Gentile sharing one access to the Father through the Spirit. Low-medium collision.

One Flesh

Approved rendering: oa Fleisch
Transliteration: oa Fleisch
Doctrine: Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships
Original: μία σάρξ
Category: Household

NEW. Renders μία σάρξ at 5:31, the Genesis 2:24 quotation grounding the household code in the creation ordinance of marriage. Low-medium collision.

Devil

Approved rendering: Teufel
Transliteration: Teifl
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
Original: διάβολος
Category: Spiritual Warfare

NEW. Renders διάβολος at 4:27; 6:11. Collides with the folk-carnival devil figure of Krampus/Perchten processions, popularly experienced as a costumed, almost comic folk character; teaching contexts must distinguish Paul’s serious spiritual adversary from this folkloric association. Also relevant: Christadelphian denial of a personal devil must not be echoed.

Ministry Gift

Approved rendering: Gnodngob’n
Transliteration: Gnadengaben
Doctrine: Gifts for Building Up the Church
Rejected alternatives: a separate fourth coined word for ‘gift’ (rejected: unnecessary proliferation)
Original: δωρεά / δόμα
Category: Ministry

NEW usage folded into the existing baseline Gnodngob’n family. Renders δωρεά/δόμα at 4:7-8, Christ’s gifts to the church specifically manifested in the fivefold ministry offices of 4:11. Keep distinct from Gschenk (δῶρον, 2:8, salvation itself).

Equipping

Approved rendering: Ausrüstung
Transliteration: Ausrüstung
Doctrine: Gifts for Building Up the Church
Original: καταρτισμός
Category: Ministry

NEW. Renders καταρτισμός at 4:12, preparing believers for ministry service. Shares its root (‘rüsten’) with the ch.6 armor vocabulary — a useful pedagogical link between the two doctrines.

Workmanship

Approved rendering: Gschöpf
Transliteration: Gschöpf
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Original: ποίημα
Category: Walking

NEW. Renders ποίημα at 2:10, resolving the works/grace tension: not saved by works, but God’s own deliberate handiwork made for good works. Must convey dignified craftsmanship, not a diminished ‘mere object’.

Created

Approved rendering: gschaffa
Transliteration: geschaffen
Doctrine: Christian Identity in Christ
Original: κτίζω
Category: Walking

NEW. Renders κτίζω at 2:10; 4:24, a new-creation act paralleling the original creation. Ties to the Romans-baseline Christian-identity-in-Christ framework; new spiritual creation, not mere moral improvement of the old self.

Boast

Approved rendering: sich rühma
Transliteration: si rühma
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace through Faith
Original: καυχάομαι
Category: Salvation

NEW. Renders καυχάομαι at 2:9, the purpose clause: grace excludes boasting precisely because it excludes works as the basis of salvation. Culturally legible concept, low-medium collision.

Children Of Light Darkness

Approved rendering: Kinder vom Liacht / Finsternis
Transliteration: Kinda vom Liacht / Finstanis
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life

NEW. Renders τέκνα φωτός/σκότος at 5:8, identity-based ethics: live as what you now are, not what you were. Low-medium collision.

Low Risk Terms

Apostle

Approved rendering: Apostl
Transliteration: Apoastl
Doctrine: Apostleship
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Church

Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 1:1, 2:20, 3:5, 4:11. Flag for co-occurrence review with ‘versiegelt’ (sealed) at 1:1/1:13 given the New Apostolic Church’s distinct sacramental-apostle doctrine documented in 05_translation_landscape.md.

Peace

Approved rendering: Friad
Transliteration: Friade
Doctrine: Peace with God

Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 2:14-17 (Christ himself is our peace, breaking down the dividing wall) and 6:15 (‘gospel of peace’); relational, covenantal peace, not merely psychological calm.

Thanksgiving

Approved rendering: Dank
Transliteration: Donk
Doctrine: Thanksgiving

Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 5:20 (‘giving thanks always… in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ’).

Prophet

Approved rendering: Prophet
Transliteration: Prophet
Doctrine: Inspiration of Scripture

Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 2:20 and 3:5 (‘built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets’).

Prophecy

Approved rendering: Weissogung
Transliteration: Weissagung
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy

Inherited from Romans package. Low direct occurrence in Ephesians; retained for consistency with the apostles/prophets foundation imagery of 2:20/3:5.

Jesus

Approved rendering: Jesus
Transliteration: Jesus
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology

Inherited from Romans package. Stable proper name form throughout Ephesians.

Exhort

Approved rendering: ermahna
Transliteration: ermohna
Doctrine: Mutual Edification

Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 4:1 (‘I urge/exhort you to walk worthy of the calling’).

Baptism

Approved rendering: Taufe
Transliteration: Dauf
Doctrine: The Church as the Body of Christ
Original: βάπτισμα
Category: Church

NEW. Renders βάπτισμα at 4:5, part of the sevenfold unity formula. Stable, universally practiced Bavarian Catholic sacrament; dialect variant ‘Dauf’ is attested but ‘Taufe’ is preferred for written consistency per the orthography-consistency rule.

Grieve The Spirit

Approved rendering: traurig macha
Transliteration: traurig macha
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: λυπέω
Category: Sanctification

NEW. Renders λυπέω at 4:30. Low collision; must retain the Spirit’s personal, relational grief, not an abstract rule-violation.

Imitators Of God

Approved rendering: Nochfolger vo Gott
Transliteration: Nochfolga vom Gott
Doctrine: Walking in Newness of Life
Original: μιμηταὶ τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Sanctification

NEW. Renders μιμηταὶ τοῦ θεοῦ at 5:1, patterning life after God’s own character, specifically his love.

Favoritism

Approved rendering: Bevorzugung
Transliteration: Bevorzugung
Doctrine: Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships
Original: προσωπολημψία
Category: Household

NEW. Renders προσωπολημψία at 6:9, grounding the master/servant instruction in God’s impartial justice. Low collision.

Ambassador

Approved rendering: Gsandter
Transliteration: Gesandter
Doctrine: Christ-Centered Ministry
Original: πρεσβεύω
Category: Ministry

NEW. Renders πρεσβεύω at 6:20, Paul’s imprisoned apostolic ministry described as an ambassador’s role. Low collision.

Pastor

Approved rendering: Hirt
Transliteration: Hiat
Doctrine: Gifts for Building Up the Church
Original: ποιμήν
Category: Ministry

NEW. Renders ποιμήν at 4:11. Genuinely positive cultural resonance given the still-living Alpine pastoral/herding culture (Almauftrieb, transhumance) and the tradition of episcopal ‘Hirtenbriefe’.

Teacher

Approved rendering: Lehrer
Transliteration: Lehra
Doctrine: Gifts for Building Up the Church
Original: διδάσκαλος
Category: Ministry

NEW. Renders διδάσκαλος at 4:11. Low collision; straightforward.

Humility Gentleness Patience

Approved rendering: Demuat, Sanftmuat, Langmuat
Transliteration: Demuat, Sanftmuat, Langmuat
Doctrine: Unity of the Spirit in the Church
Original: ταπεινοφροσύνη, πραΰτης, μακροθυμία
Category: Ministry

NEW. Renders ταπεινοφροσύνη/πραΰτης/μακροθυμία at 4:2, the practical virtue-cluster prerequisite for maintaining unity. An attested Bavarian ‘-muat’ compound pattern (cf. Gmiat/Gemüt) gives these virtues unusually natural, warm dialect expression.

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