Cross-Reference Analysis
Cross-Reference and Theme Analysis — 2 Peter → Cantonese
Scope and Method
This document maps every Old Testament quotation and allusion, every messianic reference, every typological pattern, and every New Testament parallel (with special attention to Romans, the baseline curriculum for this Language Package) found across all three chapters of 2 Peter. Citations use a normalizable “Book Chapter:Verse” format (e.g. “Genesis 15:6”, “2 Peter 1:16-21”) so downstream tooling can parse references programmatically. Cantonese renderings referenced below are drawn exclusively from translation_memory.json (baseline) and the terms proposed in 07_semantic_analysis.md / 08_core_glossary.md; no new renderings are introduced in this document.
Table columns: Passage (2 Peter reference) | Theme (one of the seven curriculum doctrines, or “Structural/Narrative” where none directly applies) | Related Character(s) | OT/NT Connection | Translation Sensitivity.
Part 1 — Chapter 1 Cross-Reference Matrix
| Passage | Theme | Related Character(s) | OT/NT Connection | Translation Sensitivity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Peter 1:1 | Growing in Christian Virtue | Simeon Peter, Paul (implicit epistolary form) | Parallels Pauline greeting formulas: Romans 1:1, Galatians 1:1 | Must render 使徒 (apostle, Low risk, Baseline TM) identically to Romans usage; 信心 (faith) per Baseline TM. |
| 2 Peter 1:1 | Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture (background) | — | Echoes Romans 3:22 (“righteousness of God… to all who believe,” no distinction) | 義 (righteousness) — Critical, Baseline TM; retain distinguishing note against 義氣 (loyalty-honor idiom) since this verse specifically predicates righteousness on God/Christ, not human merit. |
| 2 Peter 1:3-4 | Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption | — | Genesis 1:26-27 (mankind made in God’s image — the OT anchor for any “sharing in God’s nature” language); 2 Corinthians 3:18 (believers transformed into Christ’s image); Colossians 3:10 (renewed in knowledge after the Creator’s image); Romans 8:29 (conformed to the image of his Son) | Critical. 神嘅性情 (divine nature) must be taught alongside Genesis 1:26-27 and Romans 8:29 as its true canonical frame — an image-bearing, Christ-conformed transformation — explicitly NOT the Taoist 得道成仙 (attaining immortality through cultivation) or Buddhist 佛性 (innate Buddha-nature) frameworks flagged in 07/08. |
| 2 Peter 1:5-7 | Growing in Christian Virtue | — | Galatians 5:22-23 (fruit of the Spirit — sequential virtue list parallel); Romans 5:3-5 (suffering→endurance→character→hope chain); James 1:2-4 (testing produces steadfastness) | Virtue-list terms (信心, 節制, 忍耐, 敬虔, 弟兄之愛, 愛) should be rendered identically wherever this letter’s list is cross-taught alongside Galatians 5 or Romans 5 material in the same curriculum family. |
| 2 Peter 1:9 | Growing in Christian Virtue | — | Echoes Romans 6:2-4 (forgetting one’s cleansing from former sin = returning to a state of blindness) | 潔淨 language, if used, must not be rendered with ritual-purification vocabulary (清淨) already forbidden under Baseline TM “holy.” |
| 2 Peter 1:10 | Reliability of God’s Calling / Effectual Calling | — | Romans 8:28-30 (foreknown, predestined, called, justified, glorified); Romans 9:11-12 (election prior to works) | High. 蒙召嘅 (called) and 揀選 (election) — Baseline TM, must be rendered identically to their Romans occurrences. Any teaching note distinguishing this from 八字注定 (birth-chart fate) carries over unchanged from the baseline. |
| 2 Peter 1:11 | Growing in Christian Virtue / Kingdom hope | — | Daniel 7:14 (an everlasting dominion/kingdom given to the Son of Man); 2 Timothy 4:18 (the Lord will bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom) | 永遠嘅國 extends Baseline TM 神嘅國 (kingdom_of_god, Medium). Retain baseline caution against 王朝/天下 framing, especially given Hong Kong political sensitivities noted in the baseline AI instructions for kingdom language. |
| 2 Peter 1:12-15 | Structural/Narrative (sets up 1:16-21) | Simeon Peter | John 21:18-19 (Jesus foretells the manner of Peter’s death) — direct predictive fulfillment across the canon | 帳幕 (tent/body) and 離世 (departure) must avoid any resonance with rebirth-cycle vessel imagery (投胎轉世), per 07/08 note. This is Peter deliberately preparing a “testament” before death, paralleling the genre of OT patriarchal deathbed instructions (cf. Genesis 49; Deuteronomy 31-33) — worth a structural footnote for translators, not a lexical one. |
| 2 Peter 1:16-18 | The Certainty of Christ’s Return / Deity and Sonship of Christ | Jesus, Peter, James, John (implicit — “we” eyewitnesses); the Father’s voice | Direct NT parallel: Matthew 17:1-8; Mark 9:2-8; Luke 9:28-36 (Transfiguration accounts). Messianic/OT background of the voice: Psalm 2:7 (“You are my Son; today I have begotten you” — royal-messianic enthronement psalm) and Isaiah 42:1 (“my chosen one, in whom my soul delights” — Servant Song). Also echoes Exodus 24:15-18 and Exodus 34:29-35 (glory-cloud and radiant face on a “holy mountain,” Sinai typology). | Critical. The Father’s declaration “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased” must be rendered identically to its Synoptic occurrences wherever Gospel curricula in this Language Package treat Matthew 17:5 / Mark 9:7 / Luke 9:35 — lock the rendering now: 「呢個係我心愛嘅兒子，我專心喜悅佢」 (built from Baseline TM 神嘅兒子 + New term 心愛嘅, per 08). 降臨 (parousia) — Critical, never a ritual-manifestation framing. 聖山 (holy mountain) must be distinguished from feng shui geomantic “sacred mountain” veneration. |
| 2 Peter 1:19 | Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture / Certainty of Christ’s Return | — | Messianic/OT background: Numbers 24:17 (“a star shall come out of Jacob” — Balaam’s messianic oracle); Malachi 4:2 (“the sun of righteousness shall rise”); echoed forward in Revelation 22:16 (“I am… the bright morning star”). | Medium. 晨星 (morning star) must never be rendered 明星 (celebrity) nor discussed alongside 星座運程 (astrology-forecast) idiom. If a future Revelation curriculum is developed in this Language Package, 22:16’s “morning star” must reuse this identical Cantonese term for consistency. |
| 2 Peter 1:20-21 | Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture (core passage doctrine) | The OT prophets (“men… carried along by the Holy Spirit”) | 2 Timothy 3:16 (“All Scripture is breathed out by God”); 1 Peter 1:10-12 (the prophets searched out what “the Spirit of Christ” indicated, testifying beforehand of Christ’s sufferings and glories) — a direct companion-epistle parallel on the same doctrine | Critical. 被聖靈感動 must never be rendered with 扶乩 (spirit-writing/planchette) or 問米 (spirit-medium consultation) vocabulary, per 07/08. If a 1 Peter curriculum is later developed in this Language Package, 1 Peter 1:10-12’s parallel inspiration language must use the identical rendering established here for consistency across the Petrine corpus. |
Part 2 — Chapter 2 Cross-Reference Matrix
Chapter 2 runs in close literary parallel with the Epistle of Jude (Jude 4-16); nearly every verse has a direct Jude counterpart. This parallel is itself a major cross-reference finding and is tabulated separately below the main OT/NT matrix.
| Passage | Theme | Related Character(s) | OT/NT Connection | Translation Sensitivity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Peter 2:1 | False Teachers and Their Judgment | False prophets (unnamed, OT-era); false teachers (unnamed, NT-era) | Deuteronomy 13:1-5 and Deuteronomy 18:20-22 (OT test and penalty for false prophecy); Matthew 7:15-20 (false prophets known by their fruit); 1 Timothy 4:1-2 (latter-days departure from the faith) | High. 假先知/假教師 — must be distinguished from mere fortune-telling charlatanry (算命佬), per 07/08; this is a spiritual-authority danger, not entertainment fraud. 主宰 (δεσπότης) — Critical, distinct from 主 (κύριος); never a folk-pantheon ruler-title (e.g. 玉皇大帝). |
| 2 Peter 2:1 | False Teachers and Their Judgment | Christ as purchaser | Exodus 15:16 / Deuteronomy 32:6 (God “acquired”/“purchased” Israel as a redemption-motif background); 1 Corinthians 6:20, 7:23 (bought with a price) | 買贖 (bought/redeemed) — Medium; teach alongside 恩典 so the purchase is not read as a cold commercial transaction. |
| 2 Peter 2:4 | False Teachers and Their Judgment / Day of the Lord and Final Judgment | Fallen angels | Genesis 6:1-4 (“sons of God” — background narrative); direct literary parallel Jude 6 (“angels who did not stay within their own position of authority… kept in eternal chains”); non-canonical background tradition (1 Enoch) which both Jude and 2 Peter draw imagery from without endorsing it as Scripture | Critical. 落地獄 (Tartarus) must never be described with the eighteen-hells (十八層地獄) folk cosmology, Yama King (閻羅王) imagery, or as subject to intervention by 超度 ritual, per 07/08. This is custody awaiting a fixed, certain, non-negotiable judgment. |
| 2 Peter 2:5 | False Teachers and Their Judgment (typology) | Noah | Genesis 6:5-8:22 (the Flood narrative); direct literary parallel Jude 5 (implicit, via the wilderness-generation example); companion-epistle parallel 1 Peter 3:20 (Noah and the ark); Hebrews 11:7 (Noah’s righteousness by faith) | 洪水 (flood) — Low. Noah’s role as “herald of righteousness” (κῆρυξ δικαιοσύνης, rendered 義嘅使者) functions as an OT type: judgment upon a corrupt world with a righteous remnant preserved — directly prefiguring 2 Peter 3:5-7’s future fire-judgment. Flag this typological link explicitly in teaching notes. |
| 2 Peter 2:6-8 | False Teachers and Their Judgment (typology) | Lot, the men of Sodom and Gomorrah | Genesis 19:1-29 (Sodom and Gomorrah’s destruction; Lot’s rescue); direct literary parallel Jude 7 | Sodom/Gomorrah judgment is the OT type for 2 Peter 3:7’s future judgment-by-fire; Lot is the type for the “godly” whom “the Lord knows how to rescue” (2:9). No high-risk Cantonese collision identified, but ensure 義 (righteous, of Lot, 2:7-8) retains the Critical baseline distinguishing note against 義氣. |
| 2 Peter 2:9 | False Teachers and Their Judgment | — | Summarizing statement; echoes Psalm 34:17-19 (the Lord delivers the righteous out of their troubles) | 審判 (judgment) — Critical; keep the personal-tribunal framing, never 報應 karmic language. |
| 2 Peter 2:10-11 | False Teachers and Their Judgment | Angelic “glorious ones”; the archangel Michael (background) | Direct literary parallel Jude 8-9, which alludes to a dispute between Michael and the devil over Moses’ body (background tradition connected to Deuteronomy 34:5-6 and echoed in Zechariah 3:1-2) | 主權 (κυριότης, authority/dominion) — High; per baseline caution, keep strictly doctrinal, not a commentary on political authority, given Hong Kong’s political sensitivities. |
| 2 Peter 2:12 | False Teachers and Their Judgment | — | Direct literary parallel Jude 10; echoes Psalm 49:12, 20 (man compared to beasts that perish) | 無理性嘅動物 (irrational animals) — Low. |
| 2 Peter 2:13 | False Teachers and Their Judgment | — | Direct literary parallel Jude 12 | 淫蕩/貪心 — Medium. |
| 2 Peter 2:15-16 | False Teachers and Their Judgment (typology) | Balaam, son of Beor; Balaam’s donkey | Numbers 22:1-24:25 (Balaam narrative — a prophet-for-hire who loved “the wages of unrighteousness”); direct literary parallel Jude 11 | Balaam functions as the OT type of the mercenary false prophet/teacher — the direct forerunner-type of the false teachers described throughout this chapter. No major Cantonese-collision risk in the narrative itself, but 貪心 (greed) here should echo the same rendering used at 2:3 for consistency within the chapter. |
| 2 Peter 2:17 | False Teachers and Their Judgment | — | Direct literary parallel Jude 12-13 | Imagery of waterless springs/storm-driven mists — Low risk, standard nature-metaphor vocabulary. |
| 2 Peter 2:18-19 | False Teachers and Their Judgment | — | Echoes John 8:34 (everyone who sins is a slave to sin); Romans 6:16 (slaves either to sin or to obedience) — direct parallel to Romans | 敗壞 (corruption) — High; and note the “promising freedom while being slaves themselves” line should be cross-checked against how Romans 6:16-22’s slavery-to-sin/slavery-to-righteousness contrast was rendered, to preserve vocabulary consistency across curricula. |
| 2 Peter 2:20-22 | False Teachers and Their Judgment / Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption | — | Direct OT quotation: Proverbs 26:11 (“As a dog returns to its own vomit, so a fool repeats his folly”) quoted verbatim at 2:22; the companion image of “a sow, after washing, returns to wallow in the mire” draws on widely circulated ancient Near Eastern proverbial wisdom (not itself Scripture, but presented by Peter with equivalent authoritative force); structurally parallels Matthew 12:45 (“the last state of that person is worse than the first”) | Rendering-consistency rule: Proverbs 26:11 must be translated identically here and in any future Proverbs curriculum in this Language Package. Avoid softening the proverb’s force; this is Peter’s strongest statement on apostasy’s danger — a person who has “escaped” (逃脫, Baseline-extended term) corruption only to be re-entangled is worse off than if they had never known “the way of righteousness.” |
Jude parallel table (Chapter 2 literary structure):
| 2 Peter | Jude | Shared content |
|---|---|---|
| 2:1 | 4 | False teachers secretly introduced, denying the Master |
| 2:4 | 6 | Angels who sinned, held in custody for judgment |
| 2:6 | 7 | Sodom and Gomorrah as example |
| 2:10-11 | 8-9 | Despising authority/glorious ones; Michael dispute allusion |
| 2:12 | 10 | Irrational animals/instinct-driven |
| 2:13 | 12 | Blemishes at love feasts |
| 2:15 | 11 | Balaam |
| 2:17 | 12-13 | Waterless springs, wandering stars |
Translation note: because 2 Peter and Jude are so tightly parallel, any future Jude curriculum in this Language Package MUST reuse the Cantonese renderings established here (假教師, 主宰, 落地獄, 主權, 貪心, etc.) verbatim for the corresponding verses, to preserve cross-canon vocabulary consistency for learners studying both letters.
Part 3 — Chapter 3 Cross-Reference Matrix
| Passage | Theme | Related Character(s) | OT/NT Connection | Translation Sensitivity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Peter 3:1-2 | Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture | The holy prophets; the apostles | Echoes 1 Peter 1:10-12 and 2 Timothy 3:16 (companion inspiration texts) | 使徒/先知/聖潔 — all Baseline TM, reuse exactly. |
| 2 Peter 3:3-4 | The Certainty of Christ’s Return | Scoffers (unnamed, eschatological) | Echoes Psalm 42:3, 10 (“Where is your God?” — a taunt against apparent divine inaction); Jeremiah 17:15 (“Where is the word of the Lord? Let it come!”); Malachi 2:17 | 戲笑者 (scoffer) — High; the scoffers’ denial is moral rebellion (“following their own sinful desires”), not honest intellectual doubt — this distinction must survive translation. |
| 2 Peter 3:5-6 | The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment (typology) | Noah (recalled) | Direct OT allusion: Genesis 1:1-9 (creation by the spoken word of God); Psalm 33:6, 9 (“By the word of the Lord the heavens were made… he commanded, and it stood firm”); Genesis 6-8 (the Flood, recalled as proof God has intervened catastrophically in history before) | Establishes the Flood as the explicit OT type for the coming fire-judgment (3:7) — Peter states the typological link himself. 洪水 (flood) — Low, reused from Chapter 2. |
| 2 Peter 3:7 | The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment | — | Isaiah 66:15-16 (the Lord coming in fire to execute judgment); Zephaniah 1:18 (the day of the Lord’s wrath, a fire that consumes); Malachi 4:1 (the day burning like an oven) | 審判 (judgment) — Critical, reused. |
| 2 Peter 3:8 | Patience of God’s Timing | — | Direct OT quotation/echo: Psalm 90:4 (“For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past”) | Rendering-consistency rule: Psalm 90:4 must be rendered identically here and in any future Psalms curriculum; avoid any framing suggesting the “thousand years” is calendrical or almanac-style time-reckoning (老黃曆), consistent with the 07/08 caution on 天象/主嘅日子. |
| 2 Peter 3:9 | Patience of God’s Timing | — | Direct parallel to Romans: Romans 2:4 (“God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance”); Romans 9:22 (“God, desiring to show his wrath… has endured with much patience”); also Ezekiel 18:23, 33:11 (“I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked… turn back and live”) and Habakkuk 2:3 (the vision’s appointed delay) | High. 寬容 (patience) and 悔改 (repentance) — new terms proposed for shared translation memory. Consistency rule: if/when a Romans 2:4 or 9:22 teaching segment is produced under this Language Package, it MUST reuse 寬容/悔改 exactly as established here, since both passages teach the identical doctrine of purposeful divine forbearance aimed at repentance, not a depleting favor-ledger. |
| 2 Peter 3:10 | The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment / The Certainty of Christ’s Return | — | Direct NT parallel: Matthew 24:43; Luke 12:39; 1 Thessalonians 5:2, 4 (the Day of the Lord/the Son of Man comes “like a thief”) | Rendering-consistency rule: the “thief” simile must be translated identically wherever it recurs (Matthew 24:43, Luke 12:39, 1 Thessalonians 5:2, 2 Peter 3:10) — a plain household-burglary image, never softened into a fate/fortune idiom. |
| 2 Peter 3:10, 12 | The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment | — | Isaiah 34:4 (the heavens rolled up like a scroll); Isaiah 51:6 (heavens vanishing like smoke) | 天象 (stoicheia, heavenly bodies/elements) — Medium; must not be read alongside 占星 astrological “reading the heavens.” |
| 2 Peter 3:13 | The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment / Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption | — | Direct OT quotation/echo: Isaiah 65:17 and Isaiah 66:22 (“For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth”); consummated in Revelation 21:1 (“a new heaven and a new earth”) | Rendering-consistency rule: 新天新地 must be locked as the identical rendering for Isaiah 65:17, Isaiah 66:22, 2 Peter 3:13, and Revelation 21:1 across every curriculum in this Language Package. Never framed as one turn of a Buddhist kalpa-cycle (劫) or Daoist cosmic-renewal cycle — this is final and singular. |
| 2 Peter 3:14 | Growing in Christian Virtue | — | Echoes Philippians 1:10 (“pure and blameless” in view of the Day of Christ); Ephesians 5:27 (the church “without spot or wrinkle”) | 無玷污無瑕疵 — Low-Medium. |
| 2 Peter 3:15 | Patience of God’s Timing | Paul (“our beloved brother”) | Direct cross-reference to the Pauline corpus, specifically the doctrine taught in Romans 2:4 and Romans 9:22 (God’s patience as itself salvific opportunity) | Explicit textual link to Romans within 2 Peter itself — the single strongest textual warrant in this letter for enforcing rendering consistency between the two curricula. Any segment translating 2 Peter 3:15 should carry a translator note pointing back to the corresponding Romans 2:4/9:22 renderings. |
| 2 Peter 3:16 | Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture | Paul | Direct reference to “all his letters,” implicitly including Romans, within which “some things… are hard to understand” | Confirms Paul’s letters (including Romans, the baseline curriculum) are regarded by Peter as Scripture (“which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures”) — a significant canonical-authority cross-reference tying this curriculum directly to the baseline curriculum’s textual status. 滅亡 (destruction) — High, reused. |
| 2 Peter 3:17-18 | Growing in Christian Virtue | — | Doxology echoes Romans 11:36 and Romans 16:27 (closing doxologies “to him be glory forever”) | Rendering-consistency rule: closing doxology form (“to him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity”) should echo the phrasing established for Romans 11:36/16:27’s doxologies wherever both are taught in sequence, using Baseline TM 榮耀 (glory) consistently. 恩典 (grace) and 知識 (knowledge) — Critical/Medium, per 08. |
Part 4 — Messianic References and Typology Summary
| Type/Reference | OT Anchor | NT Fulfillment/Echo | Notes for Translation |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Transfiguration as proleptic guarantee of the Parousia | Exodus 24, 34 (Sinai glory-cloud); Psalm 2:7; Isaiah 42:1 | 2 Peter 1:16-18; Matthew 17:1-8; Mark 9:2-8; Luke 9:28-36 | The Transfiguration is not itself the Parousia but a witnessed preview guaranteeing its certainty — keep 降臨 reserved for the future event and do not use it loosely for the Transfiguration scene itself. |
| Noah/the Flood as type of coming judgment | Genesis 6-8 | 2 Peter 2:5; 2 Peter 3:5-7 | Peter explicitly typologizes the Flood as proof-pattern for the future fire-judgment — a deliberate inner-biblical typological argument, not merely two unrelated illustrations. |
| Sodom and Gomorrah as type of judgment by fire | Genesis 19 | 2 Peter 2:6; (background for 2 Peter 3:7’s fire-judgment) | Reinforces the same typological pattern as the Flood: God has judged a corrupt world before and will do so again. |
| Balaam as type of the mercenary false prophet | Numbers 22-24 | 2 Peter 2:15-16 | Direct named OT antecedent for the chapter’s False Teachers doctrine. |
| The morning star as messianic sign | Numbers 24:17 (Balaam’s oracle) | 2 Peter 1:19; Revelation 22:16 | Ironic literary echo: the very oracle spoken by Balaam (the type of the false prophet in ch.2) also contains one of the OT’s messianic star-images fulfilled in Christ (1:19) — worth noting in teaching materials as a structural irony within the letter. |
| The Father’s declaration of Sonship | Psalm 2:7; Isaiah 42:1 | 2 Peter 1:17; Matthew 17:5; Mark 9:7; Luke 9:35; (compare also Matthew 3:17 at the Baptism) | Confirms Christ’s unique divine Sonship at two distinct narrative moments (Baptism, Transfiguration) — both must use Baseline TM 神嘅兒子 in full, per baseline prohibition on abbreviation. |
Part 5 — Parallels to Romans and Rendering-Consistency Rules
Because Romans is the baseline curriculum for this Language Package, every point of doctrinal overlap between 2 Peter and Romans requires identical Cantonese rendering. The table below consolidates all such points identified above.
| Shared Doctrine | 2 Peter Passage | Romans Passage | Cantonese Term(s) Locked | Rule |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Righteousness/faith foundation | 2 Peter 1:1 | Romans 3:22; Romans 1:17 (citing Habakkuk 2:4) | 義 (ji6), 信心 (seon3 sam1) | Reuse Baseline TM exactly; retain Critical-tier distinguishing note against 義氣 in both curricula. |
| Effectual calling and election | 2 Peter 1:10 | Romans 8:28-30; Romans 9:11-12 | 蒙召嘅 (mung4 siu6 ge3), 揀選 (gaan2 syun2) | Reuse Baseline TM exactly; same High-risk distinguishing note against 八字注定 fate-language. |
| Slavery to sin vs. obedience | 2 Peter 2:18-19 | Romans 6:16-22 | 敗壞, 私慾 (new terms, 08) | Ensure the “freedom that is really slavery” contrast in 2 Peter 2:19 uses vocabulary consistent with how Romans 6:16-22’s slavery metaphor was rendered. |
| God’s patience aimed at repentance | 2 Peter 3:9, 3:15 | Romans 2:4; Romans 9:22 | 寬容 (fun1 jung4), 悔改 (fui3 goi2) | Mandatory lock: these two new terms, once approved, become the standard Cantonese rendering for this doctrine across BOTH curricula. Any existing or future Romans 2:4/9:22 translation must be checked against this file. |
| Doxology form | 2 Peter 3:18 | Romans 11:36; Romans 16:27 | 榮耀 (wing4 jiu6) | Preserve identical doxological cadence and Baseline TM term across both closing doxologies. |
| Kingdom framing | 2 Peter 1:11 | Romans 14:17 (kingdom_of_god context) | 神嘅國 / 永遠嘅國 | Reuse Baseline TM 神嘅國 root; retain baseline caution against political/dynastic framing given Hong Kong’s political sensitivities, applied identically in both curricula. |
| Scripture’s canonical authority | 2 Peter 3:16 (referring to Paul’s letters, including Romans) | (Romans as a whole) | — | No single term at stake, but this is a direct textual link: teaching materials for 2 Peter 3:16 should note that Peter himself places Paul’s letters — the baseline curriculum’s very text — within the category of “Scripture,” reinforcing the doctrine of Scripture’s unified inspiration taught in 2 Peter 1:20-21. |
| Lordship confession | 2 Peter throughout (Χριστός, κύριος usage) | Romans 10:9 (“Jesus is Lord” = 耶穌是主) | 主 (zyu2) | Reuse Baseline TM exactly; 2 Peter’s δεσπότης (2:1) must remain distinct (主宰), never merged with 主 even though both refer to Christ’s authority. |
| Sonship of Christ | 2 Peter 1:17 (Transfiguration voice) | Romans 1:3-4 (declared Son of God by the resurrection) | 神嘅兒子 (san4 ge3 ji4 zi2) | Both passages independently declare Christ’s Sonship at pivotal redemptive-historical moments (Transfiguration; Resurrection) — reuse the full, unabbreviated Baseline TM phrase in both; never compress to 神人. |
| Universal human accountability / God’s fairness | 2 Peter 2:4-9 (judgment falls on angels, the ancient world, Sodom, without partiality) | Romans 2:6-11; Romans 3:23 | 審判 (sam2 pun3) | Preserve the impartial, universal-in-scope framing in both curricula; never soften toward status-graded “face”-based judgment. |
Part 6 — Chapters Reviewed With No Additional New Cross-References
All three chapters of 2 Peter have now received full cross-reference treatment above. No chapter is silently omitted:
- Chapter 1 — fully covered (Parts 1 and 4 above), anchored by the core passage 2 Peter 1:16-21.
- Chapter 2 — fully covered (Part 2 above), including the systematic Jude-parallel table.
- Chapter 3 — fully covered (Part 3 above).
No chapter of 2 Peter lacks OT/NT cross-reference content; unlike some NT epistles, every chapter of this short letter carries either direct OT quotation, OT typology, or explicit NT (especially Jude and Romans) parallel material.
This document should be loaded alongside 07_semantic_analysis.md and 08_core_glossary.md before Phase 2 translation of any segment containing a quotation or allusion listed above. Where a “rendering-consistency rule” is stated, it overrides any locally-appealing alternative rendering, per the Glossary Enforcement Priority Order in 12_ai_translation_requirements.md.