Passage

Romans 11

• Glossary Term

  Apostle

  Established term; no significant collision.

  ROM.11.13

• Doctrine

  Apostleship

  Low collision risk: 使徒 is specific and established.

  ROM.11.13

• Doctrine

  Effectual Calling

  God's sovereign call that secures the salvation of the called; not a birth-chart-determined fate (八字注定).

  ROM.11.29

• Glossary Term

  Election

  NEVER use 命運 (impersonal fate) or 八字注定 (baat3 zi6 zyu3 ding6, 'fixed by one's birth-chart', referencing the still-common Cantonese practice of birth-time astrology).

  ROM.11.29

• Glossary Term

  Gentiles

  Avoid colloquial Cantonese insider/outsider terms like 外江佬 (a dated, mildly derogatory term for non-Cantonese/non-local Chinese) or clan-outsider framing (鄉下人 used dismissively) — using either would import a local ethnic/clan hierarchy into a term meant to erase, not reinforce, insider/outsider distinctions.

  ROM.11.17-24

• Doctrine

  Grace

  Unmerited favor directly contradicts the vow-and-offering transactional exchange modeled by Hong Kong's most popular temple worship (e.g.

  ROM.11.5-6

• Glossary Term

  Grace

  CRITICAL: NEVER frame grace as 福氣 (fuk1 hei3, good fortune) obtained the way Hong Kong temple-goers seek it — most visibly at Wong Tai Sin Temple (黃大仙祠), famous for the saying 「有求必應」('whatever you ask, you shall receive'), a transactional vow-and-offering exchange with a deity.

  ROM.11.5-6

• Glossary Term

  Israel

  Proper name; established form shared across Chinese-character Bible traditions.

  ROM.11.17-24

• Glossary Term

  Justification

  CRITICAL: forensic declaration ('reckoned righteous'), not a process.

  ROM.11.11

• Doctrine

  Providence

  God's personal, purposive care, not an annual fortune-forecast cycle (運程) consulted through Hong Kong almanac culture.

  ROM.11.33-36

• Glossary Term

  Providence

  NEVER use 天意 (impersonal 'heaven's intention') or 運程 (wan6 cing4, one's yearly fortune-forecast, a staple of Hong Kong New Year feng shui almanac culture).

  ROM.11.33-36

• Glossary Term

  Righteousness

  CRITICAL: 義 is a Confucian Five Constant Virtue — a social-loyalty-and-duty ethic still culturally reinforced in Cantonese popular media (loyalty-and-brotherhood themes, e.g.

  ROM.11.11

• Doctrine

  Salvation

  CRITICAL: NEVER 解脫 (Buddhist liberation from samsara) or 超度 (a posthumous release rite).

  ROM.11.11

• Glossary Term

  Salvation

  CRITICAL: NEVER use 解脫 (Buddhist liberation from samsara) or 超度 (a monk's ritual rite releasing the dead from suffering).

  ROM.11.11

• Doctrine

  Unity of Jews and Gentiles

  Directly challenges any lingering local/outsider or clan-based hierarchy; must translate with theological clarity rather than softened diplomatic language.

  ROM.11.17-24