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Core Glossary — Jude (English → Cantonese)

This glossary catalogs every load-bearing theological term identified in analysis/07_semantic_analysis.md, covering the entire book of Jude (1 chapter, 25 verses; core passage 1:3–23 plus salutation 1:1–2 and doxology 1:24–25). Terms already fixed in the Romans baseline translation_memory.json are marked REUSE and reproduced with their exact baseline rendering and risk tier — these must never be altered. New terms introduced by Jude are proposed here for addition to the project’s translation memory prior to Phase 2 translation, with risk tiers assigned consistently with the baseline’s Critical/High/Medium/Low framework.

Reused Baseline Terms (Cantonese Romans Translation Memory) — Enforce Exactly

Term (EN)GreekCantoneseJyutpingRiskJude ReferencesBaseline Note Carried Forward
Godθεόςsan4Critical1:1, 1:4, 1:21, 1:25Never 天主/上帝/老天爺
JesusἸησοῦς耶穌je4 sou1Critical1:1, 1:4, 1:17, 1:21, 1:25Standard transliteration
ChristΧριστός基督gei1 duk1Critical1:1, 1:4, 1:17, 1:21, 1:25Never conflate with Maitreya/wish-granting deity
Lordκύριοςzyu2Critical1:4, 1:5, 1:9, 1:14, 1:17, 1:21, 1:25Never 事頭/老爺; exclusive supreme Lordship
Holy Spiritπνεῦμα ἅγιον聖靈sing3 ling4Critical1:19, 1:20Never 靈 alone; never 問米-medium framing
Salvationσωτηρία救恩gau3 jan1Critical1:3, 1:5 (σώζω), 1:23 (σῴζετε)Never 解脫/超度/Guanyin epithet
Graceχάρις恩典jan1 din2Critical1:4Never Wong Tai Sin transactional-vow framing
Gloryδόξα榮耀wing4 jiu6Medium1:8, 1:24, 1:25Never 面子/威水
Calledκλητός蒙召嘅mung4 siu6 ge3High1:1Never 命中注定/八字
Saintsἅγιοι聖徒sing3 tou4High1:3Never 神仙/得道高人
Holy (adj.)ἅγιος聖潔sing3 git3High1:14 (ἁγίαις), 1:20 (ἁγιωτάτῃ)Moral/relational, not ritual purity
Peaceεἰρήνη平安ping4 on1Medium1:2Distinguish from 平安符/老黃曆
Apostleἀπόστολος使徒si2 tou4Low1:17Distinguish from 大師/風水師
Prophesiedπροφητεύω預言 (verb form)jyu6 jin4Low1:14Distinguish from 求籤/算命
MosesΜωϋσῆς摩西mo1 sai1Low1:9Established proper name
Amenἀμήν阿們aa3 mun4Low1:25Established transliteration

New Terms Introduced by Jude — Proposed for Translation Memory Addition

Term (EN)Greek/TransliterationCantoneseJyutpingRiskDoctrineJude ReferencesAlternatives RejectedRationale
Contend (for the faith)ἐπαγωνίζεσθαι / epagōnizesthai竭力爭辯kit3 lik6 zaang1 bin6HighContending for the Faith Once Delivered1:3打交, 拼命 (physical-combat framing)Must read as vigorous doctrinal/verbal defense, not physical combat or triad-style loyalty-fighting (義氣 collision already flagged under baseline “righteousness”)
The faith (deposit of doctrine)πίστις (objective sense) / pistis真道zan1 dou6HighContending for the Faith Once Delivered1:3, 1:20信心 (baseline’s subjective-trust rendering — wrong sense here), 道 alone (too closely tied to Daoist philosophical “the Way”)Distinct sense of πίστις from Romans’ subjective-trust usage; must not collapse into 信心 nor be read as an evolving cultural tradition
Delivered/handed downπαραδίδωμι / paradidōmi交付gaau1 fu6HighContending for the Faith Once Delivered1:3傳統 (evolving cultural tradition)Fixed, closed, once-for-all deposit, not an adaptable ancestral/clan tradition
Once (for all)ἅπαξ / hapax一次過 / 從前一次jat1 ci3 gwo3 / cung4 cin4 jat1 ci3HighContending for the Faith Once Delivered1:3, 1:5N/A (adverb)Non-repeatable; must not imply ongoing/renewable revelation, cf. temple vow-renewal collision already flagged under baseline “justification”
Servant/slave (of Christ)δοῦλος / doulos僕人buk6 jan4Medium(introductory self-designation)1:1奴隸 (chattel-slave connotation), 事頭/老爺-adjacent feudal framingHonored total devotion, not oppressive bondage nor feudal social hierarchy
Ungodly / ungodlinessἀσεβής, ἀσέβεια / asebēs, asebeia不敬虔bat1 ging3 kin4HighJudgment on Ungodly False Teachers1:4, 1:15 (×4), 1:18冇禮貌/失禮 (social impoliteness), 唔孝順 (filial-disrespect framing)Culpable irreverence toward God specifically, not social etiquette failure or loss of face
Master/Sovereignδεσπότης / despotēs主宰zyu2 zoi2CriticalJudgment on Ungodly False Teachers / Lordship of Christ1:4主子 (feudal master-slave connotation), 天命/天意 (impersonal fate framing, already flagged under baseline “providence”)Paired with 主 (κύριος) to express Christ’s/God’s exclusive sovereign ownership; denial of this = the false teachers’ defining sin
Licentiousnessἀσέλγεια / aselgeia放縱情慾fong3 zung3 cing4 juk6CriticalJudgment on Ungodly False Teachers (grace abused)1:4N/ADirect parallel to Romans grace-vs-license passages already flagged Critical/theologian-review in baseline
Judgmentκρίσις, κρίμα / krisis, krima審判sam2 pun3HighJudgment on Ungodly False Teachers1:4, 1:6, 1:9, 1:15報應 (impersonal karmic retribution, already flagged under baseline “sin”)God’s personal, final, moral verdict; fixed single rendering for both Greek nouns
Angelsἄγγελος / angelos天使tin1 si2MediumOld Testament Warnings as Types1:6神仙 (Daoist immortal, already rejected under baseline “saints”)Standard term; note context describes fallen angels under judgment
Kept/reserved (for judgment)τηρέω (judicial sense) / tēreō拘留 / 留下等候審判keoi1 lau4 / lau4 dai1 dang2 hau6 sam2 pun3HighJudgment on Ungodly False Teachers; OT Warnings as Types1:6, 1:13保守 (reserved for the opposite, believer-preserving sense — must not conflate)Same Greek root as “Kept by God” (τηρέω) but requires an opposite-direction Cantonese rendering when the object is judgment rather than blessing
Kept (preserved by God)τηρέω, φυλάσσω (preserving sense) / tēreō, phylassō保守bou2 sau2HighKept by God and Presented Blameless1:1, 1:21, 1:24平安符-style magical protection (already flagged under baseline “peace”)Personal, relational, gracious divine preservation, not talismanic protection or impersonal fate
Devilδιάβολος / diabolos魔鬼mo1 gwai2MediumOld Testament Warnings as Types1:9鬼 alone (generic ghost/ancestral-spirit association, reinforced by 盂蘭節 Hungry Ghost Festival culture)Personal, singular, fallen being; must be distinguished from generic folk-ghost usage
Eternal lifeζωὴ αἰώνιος / zōē aiōnios永生wing5 sang1MediumMercy and Rescue of the Wavering1:21長生不老 (Daoist immortality-cultivation)Resurrection life in God’s presence through Christ, not physical-immortality attainment through spiritual technique
Soulish/worldly (without the Spirit)ψυχικός / psychikos屬血氣嘅suk6 hyut3 hei3 ge3HighJudgment on Ungodly False Teachers1:19N/A (established CUV-tradition rendering)Risk of collision with TCM/qigong “qi-vitality” framing (already flagged under baseline “sanctification” for 修煉); denotes absence of the Holy Spirit, not weak physiological/energetic vitality
Mercyἔλεος / eleos憐憫lyun4 man5HighMercy and Rescue of the Wavering1:2, 1:21, 1:22恩典 (distinct baseline Critical term — grace ≠ mercy), transactional temple-vow compassion framingCompassion toward the suffering/needy, distinct from unearned favor toward the guilty (恩典); never transactional
Wavering/doubtingδιακρίνομαι / diakrinomai心存疑惑嘅人sam1 cyun4 ji4 waak6 ge3 jan4Medium-HighMercy and Rescue of the Wavering1:22求籤/算命/睇相 (folk-divination resolution of uncertainty, already flagged under baseline “faith”)Spiritual doubt under doctrinal pressure, resolved through community mercy and sound teaching, not divination
Snatching (out of the fire)ἁρπάζω / harpazō搶救coeng2 gau3HighMercy and Rescue of the Wavering1:23N/AUrgent rescue by believers as Christ’s instruments; must not imply humans possess independent saving power rivaling Critical σωτηρία/救恩
Blamelessἄμωμος / amōmos無瑕無疵mou4 haa4 mou4 ci1HighKept by God and Presented Blameless1:24面子/reputation-framing (already flagged under baseline “glory”)God-credited moral/spiritual purity, not social reputation; conceptually parallel to baseline Critical term 算為義
Guard/keep from stumblingφυλάσσω / phylassō保守bou2 sau2HighKept by God and Presented Blameless1:24N/ANear-synonym of τηρέω; doctrinal climax of the “kept” theme
Saviorσωτήρ / sōtēr救主gau3 zyu2CriticalDoxology and God’s Preserving Power1:25Guanyin/Wong Tai Sin savior-epithets (already flagged under baseline “salvation”)Personal title, not abstract concept; inherits full Critical weight of baseline 救恩
Majestyμεγαλωσύνη / megalōsynē威嚴wai1 jim4Medium-HighDoxology and God’s Preserving Power1:25威水 (colloquial “flashy impressiveness,” forbidden under baseline “glory”)Divine greatness, not showy human-style success
Dominion/mightκράτος / kratos權能kyun4 nang4MediumDoxology and God’s Preserving Power1:25法力 (medium’s ritual power, already flagged under baseline “power_of_god”)God’s own sovereign might
Authorityἐξουσία / exousia權柄kyun4 beng3MediumDoxology and God’s Preserving Power1:25N/AStandard doxological term
Example/warning-typeδεῖγμα / deigma反面嘅警戒faan2 min6 ge3 ging2 gaai3HighOld Testament Warnings as Types1:7榜樣 alone (skews positive-model in ordinary Cantonese usage)Must retain negative warning-example force, not a positive model to emulate
Woeοὐαί / ouai有禍了jau5 wo1 liu5MediumJudgment on Ungodly False Teachers1:11N/AProphetic judgment-pronouncement, not mere pity
Errorπλάνη / planē錯謬co3 mau6Medium-HighOld Testament Warnings as Types1:11睇風水擇日/求籤 (divination-guidance framing, already flagged under baseline “prophecy”)Doctrinal error pursued for gain, not divination-related “being led”
Love feastἀγάπη (specialized pl.) / agapē愛筵oi3 jin4MediumChristian Fellowship (contextual)1:12盆菜/clan banquet framingCovenant-fellowship meal in Christ, not clan-solidarity banquet
Flattery for gainθαυμάζοντες πρόσωπα…χάριν為利益而阿諛奉承人wai4 lei6 jik1 ji4 o1 jyu4 fung6 sing4 jan4MediumJudgment on Ungodly False Teachers1:16畀面 read as inherently sinfulDistinguish condemned exploitative flattery-for-gain from benign social face-giving courtesy

Proper Names (Established Transliterated Forms — Low Risk)

NameGreekCantoneseJyutpingJude Reference
JudeἸούδας猶大 (author self-designation “Jude” per established English convention: 猶大書 as book title, personal reference 猶大)jau4 daai61:1
JamesἸάκωβος雅各aa3 gok31:1
MichaelΜιχαήλ米迦勒mai5 kaa1 lak61:9
SodomΣόδομα所多瑪so2 do1 maa51:7
GomorrahΓόμορρα蛾摩拉ngo4 mo1 laai11:7
CainΚάϊν該隱koi1 jan21:11
BalaamΒαλαάμ巴蘭baa1 laan41:11
KorahΚόρε可拉ho2 laai11:11
EnochἙνώχ以諾ji5 nok61:14
AdamἈδάμ亞當aa3 dong11:14
EgyptΑἴγυπτος埃及oi1 kap61:5

Note: “Jude” the book title follows established Traditional-character Chinese Bible convention 猶大書 (Jau4 Daai6 Syu1); care must be taken in all cross-references and headers to distinguish the author “Jude/Judas” (猶大) from the betrayer Judas Iscariot (猶大, same Chinese form) — context must always disambiguate, consistent with how 雅各 disambiguates between James the apostle/brother of Jesus and the OT patriarch Jacob.


Doctrine-to-Term Cross-Reference Summary

Doctrine (per curriculum parameters)Primary New TermsOverall Risk
Contending for the Faith Once Delivered竭力爭辯, 真道, 交付, 一次過High
Judgment on Ungodly False Teachers不敬虔, 主宰, 放縱情慾, 審判, 屬血氣嘅Critical/High
Old Testament Warnings as Types (Israel, Angels, Sodom)天使, 拘留/留下等候審判, 反面嘅警戒, 魔鬼, 錯謬High
Mercy and Rescue of the Wavering憐憫, 心存疑惑嘅人, 搶救High
Kept by God and Presented Blameless保守, 無瑕無疵High
Doxology and God’s Preserving Power救主, 威嚴, 權能, 權柄, 保守Critical

All new terms above must be formally added to a Jude-specific extension of translation_memory.json (incrementing the version number per the baseline’s enforcement protocol) before Phase 2 segment translation of Jude begins. Critical and High risk new terms require theologian review before finalization, consistent with the baseline doctrine_risk_registry.json review-routing convention.


Critical Risk Terms

God

Approved rendering:
Transliteration: san4
Doctrine: Deity of Christ / God the Father
Rejected alternatives: 天主, 上帝, 老天爺
Original: θεός
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package. In Jude, God is addressed as Father (1:1), the Lord who saved Israel from Egypt (1:5, per the CUV textual tradition), and the object of the closing doxology ‘the only God our Savior’ (1:25), which intensifies the exclusivity already established in the baseline.


Jesus

Approved rendering: 耶穌
Transliteration: je4 sou1
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology

Inherited from Romans package. Standard transliteration; occurs in Jude 1:1, 1:4, 1:17, 1:21, 1:25.


Christ

Approved rendering: 基督
Transliteration: gei1 duk1
Doctrine: Messianic Promise / Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: 彌勒, 黃大仙式嘅救世主
Original: Χριστός
Category: Christology

Inherited from Romans package (matches baseline ‘messiah’ entry’s rendering). Never conflate with Maitreya or a wish-granting temple deity.


Lord

Approved rendering:
Transliteration: zyu2
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ / Denial of Christ’s Exclusive Lordship
Rejected alternatives: 事頭, 老爺
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology

Inherited from Romans package. In Jude 1:4, paired with the new term 主宰 (δεσπότης) to doubly emphasize exclusive ownership; also used at 1:5, 1:9, 1:14, 1:17, 1:21, 1:25. See ‘master_sovereign’ below for the pairing rule.


Holy Spirit

Approved rendering: 聖靈
Transliteration: sing3 ling4
Doctrine: Sanctification / Spiritless Conduct and Division
Rejected alternatives: 問米嘅靈, 祖先靈
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package. Never 靈 alone. Jude 1:19’s contrast (false teachers ‘not having the Spirit’) makes this distinction doctrinally load-bearing, not merely stylistic; used again at 1:20 (praying ‘in the Holy Spirit’).


Salvation

Approved rendering: 救恩
Transliteration: gau3 jan1
Doctrine: Salvation / Mercy and Rescue of the Wavering
Rejected alternatives: 解脫, 超度, 大慈大悲救苦救難
Original: σωτηρία / σώζω
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. Covers σωτηρία/σώζω at Jude 1:3 (‘common salvation’), 1:5 (God saved a people out of Egypt), and 1:23 (σῴζετε — human agents acting as Christ’s instruments of rescue, never an independent saving source rivaling Christ).


Grace

Approved rendering: 恩典
Transliteration: jan1 din2
Doctrine: Grace Perverted into License
Rejected alternatives: 福氣, 有求必應式嘅恩典, 功德
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. Jude 1:4 presents the mirror-image danger to the Romans baseline’s merit-earning collision: false teachers ABUSE true grace into license (放縱情慾), rather than merely misunderstanding it as earned merit. Requires its own additional fencing note distinct from the baseline’s existing grace guidance.


Master Sovereign

Approved rendering: 主宰
Transliteration: zyu2 zoi2
Doctrine: Denial of Christ’s Exclusive Lordship
Rejected alternatives: 主子, 天命/天意
Original: δεσπότης
Category: Christology

NEW TERM. δεσπότης, Jude 1:4, paired with 主 (κύριος). Must never soften toward impersonal fate-Heaven framing (天命/天意) nor a feudal master-slave employment relation (事頭/老爺). Functions as a Critical-tier doubling-down on the baseline’s Lordship-of-Christ doctrine. Always pair with 主, never render standing alone.


Licentiousness

Approved rendering: 放縱情慾
Transliteration: fong3 zung3 cing4 juk6
Doctrine: Grace Perverted into License
Original: ἀσέλγεια
Category: Judgment

NEW TERM. ἀσέλγεια, Jude 1:4 — what the false teachers turn grace into. Direct doctrinal parallel to the Romans grace-vs-license passages already flagged Critical/theologian-review in the baseline, but inverted in direction: this is a false teacher’s ABUSE of true grace, never a legitimate implication of grace itself.


Savior

Approved rendering: 救主
Transliteration: gau3 zyu2
Doctrine: Doxology and God’s Preserving Power
Rejected alternatives: 大慈大悲救苦救難 (Guanyin epithet), 有求必應式嘅救世主
Original: σωτήρ
Category: Salvation

NEW TERM. σωτήρ, Jude 1:25, ‘to the only God our Savior.’ A personal title inheriting the full Critical weight of the baseline’s 救恩, since it personalizes exactly the concept the baseline most emphatically guards. Must never echo popular wish-granting savior-epithets (Guanyin’s 大慈大悲救苦救難, Wong Tai Sin’s ‘whatever you ask, you shall receive’).


High Risk Terms

Called

Approved rendering: 蒙召嘅
Transliteration: mung4 siu6 ge3
Doctrine: Divine Calling / Epistolary Identity and Greeting
Rejected alternatives: 命中注定, 八字注定
Original: κλητός
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. Jude 1:1’s threefold description of believers (beloved, kept, called).


Saints

Approved rendering: 聖徒
Transliteration: sing3 tou4
Doctrine: Contending for the Faith Once Delivered
Rejected alternatives: 神仙, 得道高人
Original: ἅγιοι
Category: Church

Inherited from Romans package. Jude 1:3: recipients of the once-for-all-delivered faith. NOTE: Jude 1:14’s ἁγίαις μυριάσιν (‘holy myriads’) refers to angelic hosts, a related but distinct sense derived from the same ἅγιος root — context must disambiguate from the human ‘saints’ of 1:3.


Holy

Approved rendering: 聖潔
Transliteration: sing3 git3
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: 清淨, 戒口修行式嘅潔淨
Original: ἅγιος
Category: Sanctification

Inherited from Romans package. Jude 1:20 intensifies as ‘your most holy faith’ (ἁγιωτάτῃ), modifying 真道 (the doctrinal deposit), not a person — must read as ‘your most holy doctrine’, not ‘you, the most holy ones’.


Father

Approved rendering:
Transliteration: fu6
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family / Epistolary Identity and Greeting
Rejected alternatives: 祖先, 老竇式嘅父

Inherited from Romans package. Jude 1:1: believers are ‘beloved in God the Father’ (θεῷ πατρὶ). Distinguish from ancestor veneration (拜祖先, Ching Ming/Chung Yeung observance) per baseline note — the biblical Father cares for his children, the reverse direction of ancestor veneration.


Sin

Approved rendering:
Transliteration: zeoi6
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability / Judgment on Ungodly False Teachers
Rejected alternatives: 報應, 唔衰得

Inherited from Romans package. Jude 1:15: ἁμαρτωλοὶ ἀσεβεῖς (‘ungodly sinners’) — 罪人 (罪 + 人) used for ἁμαρτωλός. Distinguish from impersonal karmic retribution (報應).


Faith

Approved rendering: 信心
Transliteration: seon3 sam1
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: 虔誠, 睇相算命式嘅相信

Inherited from Romans package EXACTLY, fixed for the SUBJECTIVE, personal-trust sense of πίστις. CRITICAL FENCING NOTE FOR JUDE: this rendering must NEVER be used for Jude 1:3 or 1:20, where πίστις is used in the OBJECTIVE, transmitted-doctrine sense and must instead be rendered 真道 (see new term ‘the_faith_objective’). The two Cantonese words render two distinct senses of one Greek lexeme and must never be treated as interchangeable.


The Faith Objective

Approved rendering: 真道
Transliteration: zan1 dou6
Doctrine: Contending for the Faith Once Delivered
Rejected alternatives: 信心 (baseline’s subjective-trust sense — wrong sense here), 道 alone (Daoist ‘the Way’ association)
Original: πίστις (objective sense)
Category: Faith

NEW TERM. πίστις in its OBJECTIVE sense (fides quae creditur) — the fixed body of apostolic doctrine, Jude 1:3 (‘the faith once for all delivered’) and 1:20 (‘your most holy faith’). Must never collapse into 信心, and must not be read as an evolving cultural/philosophical ‘Way’.


Contend For The Faith

Approved rendering: 竭力爭辯
Transliteration: kit3 lik6 zaang1 bin6
Doctrine: Contending for the Faith Once Delivered
Rejected alternatives: 打交, 拼命, 義氣式嘅爭鬥
Original: ἐπαγωνίζεσθαι
Category: Faith

NEW TERM. ἐπαγωνίζεσθαι, Jude 1:3, the epistle’s thesis verb. Must read as vigorous doctrinal/verbal defense of revealed truth, never physical combat, personal vendetta, or triad-film-style loyalty-fighting (義氣).


Delivered Handed Down

Approved rendering: 交付
Transliteration: gaau1 fu6
Doctrine: Contending for the Faith Once Delivered
Rejected alternatives: 傳統, 家訓/祖訓式嘅傳承
Original: παραδίδωμι
Category: Doctrine Transmission

NEW TERM. παραδίδωμι, Jude 1:3. A fixed, closed, once-for-all doctrinal deposit, not an adaptable ancestral/clan tradition (家訓, 祖訓) each generation may revise.


Once For All

Approved rendering: 一次過
Transliteration: jat1 ci3 gwo3
Doctrine: Contending for the Faith Once Delivered
Rejected alternatives: 還神還願式嘅可重複承諾
Original: ἅπαξ
Category: Doctrine Transmission

NEW TERM. ἅπαξ, Jude 1:3 and 1:5. Non-repeatable, completed act; must not imply ongoing/renewable revelation, and must be distinguished from the repeatable ritual-vow-renewal pattern of temple practice (還神還願).


Ungodly Ungodliness

Approved rendering: 不敬虔
Transliteration: bat1 ging3 kin4
Doctrine: Judgment on Ungodly False Teachers
Rejected alternatives: 冇禮貌, 失禮, 唔孝順
Original: ἀσεβής / ἀσέβεια
Category: Judgment

NEW TERM. ἀσεβής/ἀσέβεια, Jude 1:4, 1:15 (×4), 1:18. Culpable irreverence toward God specifically, not social etiquette failure, loss of face, or filial disrespect. The fourfold repetition in 1:15 must not be flattened or abbreviated in translation.


Judgment

Approved rendering: 審判
Transliteration: sam2 pun3
Doctrine: Judgment on Ungodly False Teachers
Rejected alternatives: 報應
Original: κρίσις / κρίμα
Category: Judgment

NEW TERM (fixed single rendering for both κρίσις and κρίμα). Jude 1:4, 1:6, 1:9, 1:15. God’s personal, final, moral verdict; must never be conflated with impersonal karmic retribution (報應, flagged under the baseline’s ‘sin’ entry) nor softened into an ordinary civil-court verdict.


Kept Reserved For Judgment

Approved rendering: 拘留 / 留下等候審判
Transliteration: keoi1 lau4 / lau4 dai1 dang2 hau6 sam2 pun3
Doctrine: Old Testament Warnings as Types / Judgment on Ungodly False Teachers
Rejected alternatives: 保守 (reserved exclusively for the OPPOSITE, believer-preserving sense)
Original: τηρέω (judicial sense)
Category: Judgment

NEW TERM. τηρέω in its JUDICIAL-RESERVATION sense, Jude 1:6 (fallen angels) and 1:13 (darkness reserved for false teachers). MUST NEVER share the 保守 rendering used for God’s gracious preservation of believers — same Greek root, opposite theological direction. Treat as functionally Critical in QA: a swapped rendering would invert the doctrine while still reading fluently in Cantonese.


Kept Preserved

Approved rendering: 保守
Transliteration: bou2 sau2
Doctrine: Kept by God and Presented Blameless
Rejected alternatives: 平安符式嘅保護, 修煉/自我完善
Original: τηρέω / φυλάσσω (preserving sense)
Category: Sanctification

NEW TERM covering both τηρέω and φυλάσσω in their PRESERVING sense: Jude 1:1 (believers kept for Christ), 1:21 (believers commanded to keep themselves in God’s love), 1:24 (God able to guard believers from stumbling). Personal, relational, gracious divine preservation — never the magical protective efficacy of a 平安符 charm nor impersonal fate. In 1:21, ‘keep yourselves’ is a grace-enabled response, not self-generated moral effort/self-cultivation (修煉). Must never be confused with ‘kept_reserved_for_judgment’ above — see that entry’s hard-rule note.


Blameless

Approved rendering: 無瑕無疵
Transliteration: mou4 haa4 mou4 ci1
Doctrine: Kept by God and Presented Blameless
Rejected alternatives: 面子/名聲完美
Original: ἄμωμος
Category: Sanctification

NEW TERM. ἄμωμος, Jude 1:24 — believers presented in this state before God’s glory. God-credited moral/spiritual purity, conceptually parallel to the baseline’s Critical 算為義 (imputed righteousness); must be distinguished from social ‘spotless reputation/face’ framing (面子).


Soulish Worldly

Approved rendering: 屬血氣嘅
Transliteration: suk6 hyut3 hei3 ge3
Doctrine: Spiritless Conduct and Division
Original: ψυχικός
Category: Judgment

NEW TERM. ψυχικός, Jude 1:19. Genuinely difficult without collision: 血氣 (literally ‘blood-and-qi/vital-energy’) risks being heard through Traditional Chinese Medicine’s qi-vitality framework or qigong/martial-arts self-cultivation culture (修煉, flagged under the baseline’s sanctification entry). Denotes absence of the Holy Spirit’s indwelling presence — a theological, not physiological or energetic, deficiency.


Mercy

Approved rendering: 憐憫
Transliteration: lyun4 man5
Doctrine: Mercy and Rescue of the Wavering
Rejected alternatives: 恩典 (distinct baseline Critical term — grace ≠ mercy), 還神還願式嘅慈悲交換
Original: ἔλεος
Category: Salvation

NEW TERM. ἔλεος, Jude 1:2, 1:21, 1:22. Compassion shown to the suffering/needy, distinct from unearned favor toward the guilty (恩典), and never a transactional temple-vow-exchange compassion (paralleling the baseline’s grace-vs-Wong-Tai-Sin caution).


Example Warning Type

Approved rendering: 反面嘅警戒
Transliteration: faan2 min6 ge3 ging2 gaai3
Doctrine: Old Testament Warnings as Types
Rejected alternatives: 榜樣 (unqualified — skews positive-model in ordinary usage)
Original: δεῖγμα
Category: Judgment

NEW TERM. δεῖγμα, Jude 1:7 (Sodom and Gomorrah ‘set forth as an example’). Must retain negative warning force; plain 榜樣 would invert the verse’s meaning.


Destroyed Apollymi

Approved rendering: 毀滅
Transliteration: wai2 mit6
Doctrine: Old Testament Warnings as Types

NEW TERM. ἀπόλλυμι, Jude 1:5 — God’s destruction of the unbelieving Exodus wilderness generation. Must retain historical, particular, once-in-history force rather than being generalized into an abstract principle, which would weaken the passage’s function as a τύπος (warning-type).


Snatching Out Of Fire

Approved rendering: 搶救
Transliteration: coeng2 gau3
Doctrine: Mercy and Rescue of the Wavering

NEW TERM. σῴζετε…ἁρπάζοντες, Jude 1:23. Urgent, decisive rescue action performed by believers as Christ’s instruments; must not be misread as humans possessing independent saving power rivaling the Critical baseline term 救恩.


Medium Risk Terms

Glory

Approved rendering: 榮耀
Transliteration: wing4 jiu6
Doctrine: Doxology and God’s Preserving Power
Rejected alternatives: 面子, 威水
Original: δόξα
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package. In Jude 1:8 (slandered angelic ‘glories’) and 1:24-25 (closing doxology, paired with new terms 威嚴/權能/權柄 forming a fourfold ascription that must not be flattened into a single generic ‘greatness’ word).


Peace

Approved rendering: 平安
Transliteration: ping4 on1
Doctrine: Peace with God / Epistolary Identity and Greeting
Rejected alternatives: 平安符式嘅平安, 老黃曆話嘅好日子
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. Jude 1:2, part of the salutation’s threefold blessing (mercy, peace, love).


Servant Slave

Approved rendering: 僕人
Transliteration: buk6 jan4
Doctrine: Epistolary Identity and Greeting
Rejected alternatives: 奴隸, 事頭/老爺式嘅封建關係
Original: δοῦλος
Category: Church

NEW TERM. δοῦλος, Jude 1:1, the author’s self-designation. Honored total devotion, not chattel slavery (奴隸) nor a feudal master-servant social hierarchy (老爺/事頭).


Eternal Life

Approved rendering: 永生
Transliteration: wing5 sang1
Doctrine: Mercy and Rescue of the Wavering
Rejected alternatives: 長生不老
Original: ζωὴ αἰώνιος
Category: Salvation

NEW TERM (established Chinese-Christian compound). ζωὴ αἰώνιος, Jude 1:21. Resurrection life in God’s presence through Christ, not Daoist/folk-religious physical-immortality attainment (長生不老) through spiritual technique. NEVER echo the Recovery Version’s ‘life-mingling’/‘divine dispensing’ framing.


Angels

Approved rendering: 天使
Transliteration: tin1 si2
Doctrine: Old Testament Warnings as Types
Rejected alternatives: 神仙
Original: ἄγγελος
Category: Angelology

NEW TERM. ἄγγελος, Jude 1:6, describing FALLEN angels reserved for judgment. Must be clarified as angelic beings who forfeited their position, not benevolent guardian-spirit figures as sometimes popularly imagined.


Devil

Approved rendering: 魔鬼
Transliteration: mo1 gwai2
Doctrine: Angelic Authority and Restraint
Rejected alternatives: 鬼 (alone — generic ghost/ancestral-spirit association)
Original: διάβολος
Category: Angelology

NEW TERM. διάβολος, Jude 1:9. Must be distinguished from bare 鬼, which carries extremely active currency in Cantonese folk speech via ancestral-spirit belief and the Hungry Ghost Festival (盂蘭節). 魔鬼 anchors this as a personal, singular, fallen being.


Woe

Approved rendering: 有禍了
Transliteration: jau5 wo1 liu5
Doctrine: Judgment on Ungodly False Teachers
Original: οὐαί
Category: Judgment

NEW TERM. οὐαί, Jude 1:11. A prophetic judgment-pronouncement, not a mere expression of pity.


Flattery For Gain

Approved rendering: 為利益而阿諛奉承人
Transliteration: wai4 lei6 jik1 ji4 o1 jyu4 fung6 sing4 jan4
Doctrine: False Teachers Motivated by Greed and Error
Rejected alternatives: 畀面 read as inherently sinful
Original: θαυμάζοντες πρόσωπα…χάριν
Category: Judgment

NEW TERM. θαυμάζοντες πρόσωπα…χάριν, Jude 1:16. Distinguish condemned exploitative flattery-for-gain from the ordinarily benign Cantonese social courtesy of face-giving (畀面) — the sin is exploitative insincerity for profit, not politeness itself.


Dominion Might

Approved rendering: 權能
Transliteration: kyun4 nang4
Doctrine: Doxology and God’s Preserving Power
Rejected alternatives: 法力
Original: κράτος
Category: God

NEW TERM. κράτος, Jude 1:25. God’s own sovereign might, never 法力 (a medium’s or practitioner’s ritual power, already flagged under the baseline’s ‘power_of_god’ entry).


Authority Exousia

Approved rendering: 權柄
Transliteration: kyun4 beng3
Doctrine: Doxology and God’s Preserving Power
Original: ἐξουσία
Category: God

NEW TERM. ἐξουσία, Jude 1:25. Standard doxological term; part of the fourfold chain (榮耀/威嚴/權能/權柄) ascribing total, exclusive sovereignty to God alone, which must not be diluted into a single generic term.


Dreamers False Visions

Approved rendering: 憑異夢自誇嘅人
Transliteration: pang4 ji6 mung6 zi6 kwaa1 ge3 jan4
Doctrine: Judgment on Ungodly False Teachers
Rejected alternatives: 解夢 framing treated as legitimate

NEW TERM. ἐνυπνιαζόμενοι, Jude 1:8. False teachers’ self-authorizing visionary/dream-revelation claims; distinguish from Cantonese folk dream-interpretation practice (解夢) — these are false, self-serving claims, not legitimate revelation.


Grumblers Complainers

Approved rendering: 發怨言嘅人、埋怨命運嘅人
Transliteration: faat3 jyun3 jin4 ge3 jan4, maai4 jyun3 ming6 wan6 ge3 jan4
Doctrine: False Teachers Motivated by Greed and Error
Rejected alternatives: 埋怨命運 used as a standalone fatalistic-fate framing

NEW TERM. γογγυσταί, μεμψίμοιροι, Jude 1:16, echoing Israel’s wilderness grumbling (cf. 1:5). Discontent with God’s provision/authority specifically, not generic bad-luck grumbling about impersonal fate.


Mockers

Approved rendering: 好譏笑人嘅人
Transliteration: hou3 gei1 siu3 jan4 ge3 jan4
Doctrine: Judgment on Ungodly False Teachers

NEW TERM. ἐμπαῖκται, Jude 1:18, predicted beforehand by the apostles.


Last Time

Approved rendering: 末世 / 最後嘅時代
Transliteration: mut6 sai3 / zeoi3 hau6 ge3 si4 doi6
Doctrine: Judgment on Ungodly False Teachers
Rejected alternatives: 睇風水擇日式嘅日期推算

NEW TERM. ἐπ᾽ ἐσχάτου [τοῦ] χρόνου, Jude 1:18. The NT’s inaugurated-but-not-consummated ‘last days’ era; must not be read as a date-calculation exercise, consistent with the baseline’s wariness of divination/date-selection culture (睇風水擇日).


Love Feast

Approved rendering: 愛筵
Transliteration: oi3 jin4
Doctrine: Christian Fellowship (contextual)
Rejected alternatives: 盆菜式嘅氏族宴會
Original: ἀγάπαι (specialized plural)
Category: Church

NEW TERM (established Chinese-Christian compound). ἀγάπαι (specialized plural), Jude 1:12. Covenant-fellowship meal expressing shared union in Christ, not a clan-solidarity or ancestor-honoring banquet (盆菜 tradition).


Sodom Gomorrah

Approved rendering: 所多瑪同埋蛾摩拉
Transliteration: so2 do1 maa5 tung4 maai4 ngo4 mo1 laai1
Doctrine: Old Testament Warnings as Types
Original: Σόδομα καὶ Γόμορρα
Category: History

NEW TERM. Σόδομα καὶ Γόμορρα, Jude 1:7. Third of Jude’s three OT warning-types (with Israel and the fallen angels); requires brief Genesis 19 narrative background given low OT literacy.


Cain Balaam Korah

Approved rendering: 該隱、巴蘭、可拉
Transliteration: koi1 jan2, baa1 laan4, ho2 laai1
Doctrine: Old Testament Warnings as Types
Original: Κάϊν, Βαλαάμ, Κόρε
Category: History

NEW TERM. Κάϊν, Βαλαάμ, Κόρε, Jude 1:11. Three further OT warning-types, each a distinct sin-pattern (murderous jealousy/false worship; mercenary false prophecy; rebellion against God-appointed authority); require brief narrative glosses given low OT literacy.


Low Risk Terms

Apostle

Approved rendering: 使徒
Transliteration: si2 tou4
Doctrine: Apostleship
Rejected alternatives: 風水師, 大師
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Church

Inherited from Romans package. Jude 1:17: source of the apostles’ prior prediction of end-time mockers.


Prophecy

Approved rendering: 預言
Transliteration: jyu6 jin4
Doctrine: Inspiration of Scripture / Fulfillment of Prophecy
Rejected alternatives: 求籤, 睇風水擇日, 算命

Inherited from Romans package. Jude 1:14: Enoch ‘prophesied’ concerning the last-day false teachers, quoted from the non-canonical Book of Enoch. Jude treats the utterance as genuine prophecy without thereby canonizing 1 Enoch itself — an explanatory, not lexical, point for teaching notes.


Moses

Approved rendering: 摩西
Transliteration: mo1 sai1
Doctrine: (proper name)
Original: Μωϋσῆς
Category: Covenant

Inherited from Romans package. Jude 1:9: referenced in the dispute between Michael and the devil over Moses’ body.


Amen

Approved rendering: 阿們
Transliteration: aa3 mun4
Doctrine: Doxology and God’s Preserving Power
Original: ἀμήν
Category: Worship

Inherited from Romans package. Closes the doxology at Jude 1:25.


Archangel

Approved rendering: 天使長
Transliteration: tin1 si2 zoeng2
Doctrine: Angelic Authority and Restraint
Original: ἀρχάγγελος
Category: Angelology

NEW TERM. ἀρχάγγελος, Jude 1:9, title of Michael. Established compound; minimal collision risk.


Jude Author

Approved rendering: 猶大
Transliteration: jau4 daai6
Doctrine: (proper name)
Original: Ἰούδας
Category: History

NEW TERM. Ἰούδας, Jude 1:1. Book title follows established convention 猶大書; context must disambiguate the author from Judas Iscariot (same Chinese form), consistent with how 雅各 disambiguates James from Jacob.


James

Approved rendering: 雅各
Transliteration: aa3 gok3
Doctrine: (proper name)
Original: Ἰάκωβος
Category: History

NEW TERM. Ἰάκωβος, Jude 1:1, Jude’s brother. Homographic with OT Jacob, disambiguated by context.


Michael

Approved rendering: 米迦勒
Transliteration: mai5 kaa1 lak6
Doctrine: Angelic Authority and Restraint
Original: Μιχαήλ
Category: Angelology

NEW TERM. Μιχαήλ, Jude 1:9. Render as ‘天使長米迦勒’ with NO gloss suggesting or denying any identity claim beyond the text — screens out the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ New World Translation-associated Michael-as-Jesus doctrinal reading; any identity discussion belongs in teaching notes, never the translated text.


Enoch

Approved rendering: 以諾
Transliteration: ji5 nok6
Doctrine: (proper name)
Original: Ἑνώχ
Category: History

NEW TERM. Ἑνώχ, Jude 1:14, ‘the seventh from Adam.’ His non-canonical prophecy is quoted as genuinely prophetic without thereby canonizing 1 Enoch as Scripture.


Adam

Approved rendering: 亞當
Transliteration: aa3 dong1
Doctrine: (proper name)

NEW TERM. Ἀδάμ, Jude 1:14, genealogical reference point (‘the seventh from Adam’).


Egypt

Approved rendering: 埃及
Transliteration: oi1 kap6
Doctrine: (proper name)

NEW TERM. Αἴγυπτος, Jude 1:5, the place from which the Lord saved a people, later destroying those among them who did not believe.


Medium-High Risk Terms

Error Planē

Approved rendering: 錯謬
Transliteration: co3 mau6
Doctrine: False Teachers Motivated by Greed and Error
Rejected alternatives: 睇風水擇日/求籤 (divination-guidance framing)
Original: πλάνη
Category: Judgment

NEW TERM. πλάνη, Jude 1:11 (Balaam’s error, pursued for hire/wages). Doctrinal error pursued for financial gain, sharply distinguished from the Cantonese cultural pattern of being ‘led’ by fortune-tellers or feng shui consultants.


Reject Authority

Approved rendering: 藐視掌權者
Transliteration: miu5 si6 zong2 kyun4 ze2
Doctrine: Angelic Authority and Restraint
Original: κυριότητα ἀθετοῦσιν
Category: Judgment

NEW TERM. κυριότητα ἀθετοῦσιν, Jude 1:8. Scoped narrowly to contemptuous rejection of divinely-appointed authority/angelic rank; must not be broadened to appear to endorse rejecting all legitimate human civil authority (collision with the Romans baseline’s political-sensitivity flag on Romans 13).


Majesty

Approved rendering: 威嚴
Transliteration: wai1 jim4
Doctrine: Doxology and God’s Preserving Power
Rejected alternatives: 威水
Original: μεγαλωσύνη
Category: God

NEW TERM. μεγαλωσύνη, Jude 1:25, part of the fourfold doxological chain. Divine greatness, never the colloquial 威水 (‘flashy impressiveness’), already forbidden under the baseline’s ‘glory’ entry.


Blaspheme Glories

Approved rendering: 毀謗尊榮嘅
Transliteration: wai2 pong3 zyun1 wing4 ge3
Doctrine: Angelic Authority and Restraint

NEW TERM. δόξας…βλασφημοῦσιν, Jude 1:8. False teachers arrogantly mock angelic beings/dignities they do not understand, contrasted with Michael’s restraint in 1:9 (a fortiori logic that must be preserved structurally).


Wavering Doubting

Approved rendering: 心存疑惑嘅人
Transliteration: sam1 cyun4 ji4 waak6 ge3 jan4
Doctrine: Mercy and Rescue of the Wavering
Rejected alternatives: 求籤/算命/睇相 (folk-divination resolution of uncertainty)
Original: διακρίνομαι
Category: Faith

NEW TERM. διακρίνομαι, Jude 1:22. Spiritual doubt under doctrinal pressure, resolved through patient community mercy and sound teaching, never through divination.

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