Linguistic Gap Analysis — 1 Peter | English → Czech

Purpose and Method

This analysis extends the Romans baseline Language Package to the 1 Peter curriculum. It does not repeat baseline entries already governed by translation_memory.json/bible_term_registry.json (Bůh, Pán, milost, víra, spasení, spravedlnost, sláva, svatý, svatí, posvěcení, vzkříšení, vyvolení, povolání, evangelium, hřích, pokoj, apoštol, prorok, moc Boží, duchovní dary, společenství) except where 1 Peter’s usage introduces a new collision or new application not covered by the baseline’s Romans-specific notes. Those cases are flagged explicitly below and cross-referenced to the relevant baseline note.

The controlling risk pattern for Czech, established in the baseline, remains active for this letter: the dominant failure mode is a reader having no framework at all, not a competing wrong framework. However, 1 Peter’s own vocabulary (living stone, royal priesthood, elders, submission, spirits in prison, baptism) introduces several genuinely NEW collision risks not present in Romans — most notably where ordinary Czech legal/commercial/institutional vocabulary (dědictví, vykoupit, kněžstvo, biskup, starší) actively pulls the reader toward the WRONG concept rather than merely toward NO concept. This shifts part of 1 Peter’s risk profile closer to the “rival framework” pattern the baseline says is atypical for Czech — a distinction this analysis tracks explicitly doctrine by doctrine.

Full-book coverage: every chapter (1–5) has been reviewed. Chapters contributing no new load-bearing terms beyond what is already logged are noted as “reviewed, no new terms” at the end of each relevant matrix section.

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A. Doctrine Vocabulary Matrix

A1. The Living Hope of the Resurrection (ch. 1, 3)

Element	Available Czech Term(s)	Weaknesses	Recommended Strategy
living hope	živá naděje	”Naděje” alone = generic secular optimism (“naděje, že bude hezky”); “živá” risks reading as emotional intensifier rather than “alive because its object is risen”	Never use unaccompanied; pair every first use per document with a one-clause anchor to the resurrection (“naděje, která žije, protože Kristus žije”)
resurrection (of Christ)	vzkříšení (baseline, Critical)	Detached from doctrine via Easter folk-custom (pomlázka); this is the letter’s OPENING THESIS and this curriculum’s core passage, raising the stakes above ordinary baseline usage	Treat every occurrence in 1:3 material as requiring full narrative scaffolding, not a brief gloss
born again / new birth	znovuzrození	Secular “rebirth” register (personal reinvention, national renewal, self-help) implies a gradual, self-directed process	Actively contrast with self-improvement: God-caused, decisive, one-time
inheritance	dědictví	Dominant sense = probate/estate law (dědická daň, notář, závěť); implies death-triggered, divisible, losable property — the near-opposite of Peter’s claim	Fence explicitly: “nehynoucí, nezničitelné, nikdy neztratí hodnotu” — repeatedly negate the probate frame
imperishable / unfading	nepomíjitelné / nevadnoucí	Rare, literary; comprehension gap not collision	Gloss once per document: “co se nemůže rozpadnout ani zaniknout”
guarded by God’s power	moc Boží + strážní obraz (φρουρέω)	Baseline “moc Boží” is stable, but the military-guard/garrison image behind φρουρέω is invisible in a flat translation	Supply the guard-image explicitly (“Bůh vás jako stráž chrání”) at first use
tested genuineness of faith	pravost víry	”Pravost” defaults to consumer/forensic authenticity-checking (bankovky, zboží, dokumenty)	Recover metallurgical refining image explicitly: faith proven “jako zlato v ohni”
trial / testing	zkouška	Overwhelmingly = school exam/driving test in ordinary Czech	Never leave unqualified; pair with “zkouška víry” and narrative content about cost, not academic testing
foreknowledge	předzvědění (Boží)	No secular collision; simply rare/unfamiliar	Gloss briefly: introduces, does not resolve, the election background

Chapters reviewed: 1 (primary), 3 (imperishable spirit, 3:4; fellow heirs of the grace of life reuses inheritance vocabulary, 3:7).

A2. Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake (ch. 1, 2, 3, 4)

Element	Available Czech Term(s)	Weaknesses	Recommended Strategy
suffer for righteousness (title phrase)	trpět pro spravedlnost	Reuses two Critical baseline terms; “spravedlnost” alone defaults to civic/legal fairness	Flag every occurrence for theologian review (already logged in registry); never allow “spravedlnost” here to be read as mere legal justice
suffer unjustly	trpět nespravedlivě	Must stay distinct from suffering-for-wrongdoing (2:20), which the text explicitly does NOT commend	Always pair with the contrast Peter himself draws (unjust vs. deserved suffering)
blessed (in suffering)	blahoslavený	Low collision, but also low pre-existing recognition; echoes the Beatitudes, which secular readers likely do not know	Teach as “God’s specific commendation,” not circumstantial happiness
grace (commendable act) — secondary sense	milost (secondary, non-soteriological use, 2:19-20)	Risk of silently merging with the soteriological “milost” of 1:2/1:10/5:12	Flag distinct sense per registry note; consider a bracketed gloss (“to je chvályhodné”) rather than bare “milost” where the secondary sense is intended
defense / reasoned answer	obhajoba / odpověď	Courtroom register may suggest a combative, adversarial posture	Must be paired explicitly with the text’s own qualifier: “s mírností a respektem”
sanctify Christ as Lord	posvětit Pána Krista	Combines two Critical terms; risk of collapsing to mere mental assent	Teach as active, reverent enthronement of Christ’s authority in the heart, prerequisite to bold-but-gentle witness
adversary/devil	ďábel (not čert)	Czech Mikuláš/čert folk tradition supplies a comedic, non-threatening devil figure	Explicit note guarding against the folkloric register; never use “čert”
Creator (entrusting the soul)	Stvořitel	Standard, low collision, but unfamiliar as a specific address/title rather than a generic term	Brief anchor: God addressed personally as the one who made and therefore can be trusted with the soul

Chapters reviewed: 1 (trial/testing, 1:6-7), 2 (suffer unjustly/commendable, 2:19-20), 3 (blessed, defense, sanctify Christ as Lord, 3:14-17), 4 (suffering as a Christian not a criminal, 4:12-19 — reuses “trpět,” “křesťan,” “Stvořitel,” “svěřit duši”; no new terms beyond those already logged).

A3. The Church as a Holy and Royal Priesthood (ch. 2)

Element	Available Czech Term(s)	Weaknesses	Recommended Strategy
living stone	živý kámen	No collision, but the architectural-temple metaphor is wholly unfamiliar to a secular reader with no OT temple background	Full narrative scaffolding required; never introduced as a bare label
spiritual house	duchovní dům	Companion image; same scaffolding gap, compounded by the fact 1 Peter never uses “církev” — the whole ecclesiology rides on this image vocabulary	Teach living stone + spiritual house as a single unit, not two separate terms
holy / royal priesthood	svaté kněžstvo / královské kněžstvo	HIGHEST-PRIORITY COLLISION in this doctrine cluster: “kněz/kněžstvo” in Czech religious history (Catholic-dominant, later Hussite/Protestant disputes over clergy) denotes an ordained, institutional office set apart from the laity	Every occurrence requires explicit doctrinal correction: “všichni věřící, ne jen vysvěcení duchovní” — the term must be actively fenced against a clergy-only default reading
spiritual sacrifice	duchovní oběť	No literal sacrifice referent in modern secular life	Explain OT sacrificial background briefly; anchor concretely to praise, prayer, good deeds
chosen race	vyvolený rod	”Rod” (lineage/race) risks an ethnic-nationalist misreading	Fence explicitly: spans every ethnicity, not a bloodline
holy nation	svatý národ	”Národ” carries strong modern Czech national/ethnic-identity weight	Reframe explicitly as a spiritual, multi-ethnic people, not a political nation-state
people for God’s possession	lid Božího vlastnictví	Unfamiliar compound; comprehension gap, not collision	Gloss with plain paraphrase at first use

Chapter reviewed: 2 only (2:4-10 is the doctrine’s textual home); no other chapter contributes new terms to this cluster.

A4. Submission to Authority and Christlike Endurance (ch. 2, 3, 5)

Element	Available Czech Term(s)	Weaknesses	Recommended Strategy
submit / submission	poddat se / podřídit se	Living memory of enforced political submission under Nazi occupation and over four decades of Communist rule gives this vocabulary a real historical charge not present in most other Language Packages’ cultures	Never present the bare command without the text’s own qualifiers (for the Lord’s sake; suffering unjustly while doing good; God as final, just judge); flag any segment where these qualifiers might be trimmed for brevity
freedom	svoboda	Must be distinguished from libertarian/political “freedom” (a live, contested modern Czech political term) and from moral license	Teach as freedom FOR obedience to God, not freedom FROM all constraint
servant of God	služebník Boží	”Otrok” (literal slave) carries strong oppression connotations that would clash with the positive self-designation; “služebník” is gentler but under-conveys total ownership	Retain “služebník,” accept the softened force as the lesser risk, and supply a note on the total-belonging sense where the passage requires it
household servant	služebník (v domě)	The historical institution of domestic slavery needs brief framing for a modern reader unfamiliar with it	Brief historical-context note; transfer application explicitly to modern employment/authority relationships
fellow heirs	spoludědic (milosti života)	Reuses the crowded “dědictví” neighborhood (see A1); equality claim (husband and wife as EQUAL co-heirs) is easily lost	Explicit teaching note on equality, since Czech legal inheritance culture assumes potentially unequal shares
shepherd/flock (of elders)	pást / stádo	Low secular collision (agricultural image legible via folk tradition)	Consistently link to Christ as “nejvyšší Pastýř” so elder-authority reads as derivative, not autonomous
lord over / domineer	panovat nad	Deliberately reuses “Pán” root, now negated; risk of NOT registering the connection to Christ’s legitimate lordship if translated with an unrelated verb	Preserve the root-connection in Czech; add note distinguishing forbidden domineering from Christ’s rightful exclusive lordship

Chapters reviewed: 2 (civil authority, masters, 2:13-20), 3 (wives/husbands, 3:1-7), 5 (elders/flock, 5:1-5); no additional new terms beyond those logged.

A5. Christ’s Substitutionary Suffering (ch. 1, 2, 3)

Element	Available Czech Term(s)	Weaknesses	Recommended Strategy
redemption/ransom	vykoupení / vykoupit	SEVERE CROWDED-NEIGHBORHOOD COLLISION: everyday commercial verb (redeeming a coupon, a pawned item, a lottery ticket); this is the default and only association for most readers	Recommend Critical-tier registry addition (already logged); always pair with “drahou krví Kristovou,” never leave as a bare commercial-sounding verb
sprinkling of blood	pokropení krví	No secular collision, but the entire Exodus 24 covenant-ratification background is unavailable to a general reader; without it the image is simply strange	Requires explicit OT narrative teaching, not a gloss alone
lamb (sacrificial)	beránek	Czech Easter culture (Velikonoce) prominently features “beránek” as a shaped pastry/food symbol; risks reading as a cute seasonal food image	Anchor explicitly to the Passover/sacrificial background (Exodus 12), parallel to the baseline’s “vzkříšení”/pomlázka caution
substitutionary suffering	trpěl za nás	The substitutionary force of “za” (ὑπέρ) must be held together with — not replaced by — the “follow in his steps” exemplary sense of 2:21-25	Teach both senses together explicitly; do not resolve the tension by dropping either half
bore our sins	nesl (naše hříchy)	Sacrificial-cultic image requiring OT background (scapegoat/sin-bearing)	Brief OT anchor at first use
tree/cross	dřevo (kříže)	Without the Deuteronomy 21:23 “cursed is he who hangs on a tree” background, reads as merely descriptive	Brief OT note attached
once for all	jednou provždy	Standard idiom exists (low collision) but its doctrinal force (finality/sufficiency, no repeated atonement) must be made explicit, not assumed from the idiom alone	Attach explicit doctrinal statement each occurrence
righteous for the unrighteous	spravedlivý za nespravedlivé	Central substitutionary statement reusing Critical “spravedlnost”; substitutionary “za” must be preserved	Flag every occurrence for theologian review
put to death in flesh / made alive in spirit	usmrcen v těle, obživen v duchu	Genuinely disputed among reputable interpreters	Render literally; do NOT resolve the exegetical question through translation choice; flag for theologian review every occurrence
right hand of God	pravice Boží	Literal image (a hand) may seem odd without explanation of the idiom	Brief explanatory gloss: position of supreme honor/authority

Chapters reviewed: 1 (redemption, lamb, sprinkling of blood — 1:2, 1:18-19), 2 (bore our sins, tree, 2:24), 3 (righteous for unrighteous, once for all, put to death/made alive, right hand of God — 3:18-22).

A6. Holiness in Conduct (ch. 1, 2, 3, 4)

Element	Available Czech Term(s)	Weaknesses	Recommended Strategy
be holy (imperative)	svatý (baseline)	Must connect explicitly to God’s own character (Leviticus 19:2 quotation), not generic moral goodness	Anchor to the Leviticus citation every time
good conduct / way of life	dobré jednání / způsob života	Recurring, load-bearing across the whole letter (2:12; 3:1-2, 16)	Single consistent rendering required across all curriculum documents
brotherly love (sincere)	nepokrytecká bratrská láska	”Brotherly” risks a narrow biological reading	Frame explicitly as spiritual-family category
gentle and quiet spirit	tichý a mírný duch	”Tichý” risks the same flattening the baseline notes for “pokoj” — mere absence of noise/enforced silence rather than inward disposition	Teach as an inward disposition “precious before God,” not passivity or silencing
idolatry	modloslužba	Inverse-risk case: NO secular collision at all (no literal idol-worship in modern Czech life), which paradoxically makes the concept entirely unfamiliar rather than merely mistranslated	Requires foundational explanation of FUNCTIONAL/modern idolatry (money, status, pleasure as substitute gods), not ancient image-worship alone
love (agapē)	milovat	Secular usage skews romantic/family-affectionate	Teach as committed, worship-directed love for an unseen Person (1:8) and costly, sin-covering love within community (4:8)
joy	radost	Ordinary word for happiness/pleasure	Teach the paradox explicitly: joy coexisting with unseen-ness and suffering
obedience (standalone)	poslušnost	Must be tracked distinctly from the baseline’s compound “poslušnost víry” (obedience of faith); 1 Peter uses the bare noun repeatedly (1:2, 1:14, 1:22)	Do not silently merge with the Romans compound term; log as related-but-distinct
Christian (self-identification)	křesťan	Stable label, but in a highly secular society public self-identification carries real, present-day social weight	Note the letter’s practical contemporary relevance, not merely historical interest

Chapters reviewed: 1 (holiness command, obedience, brotherly love — 1:14-16, 1:22), 2 (good conduct, 2:12), 3 (gentle/quiet spirit, good conduct, 3:1-4, 16), 4 (love covers sins, idolatry list — 4:3, 4:8).

A7. Elders and Humility (ch. 5)

Element	Available Czech Term(s)	Weaknesses	Recommended Strategy
elder	starší	Ordinary comparative adjective for “older”; flattens to a bare age-category without active correction	Must be taught explicitly as a recognized church office with real teaching/shepherding authority and accountability, not mere seniority
shepherd / flock	pást / stádo	See A4; here specifically the elder’s positive charge	Link consistently to “nejvyšší Pastýř” (Chief Shepherd)
oversee	dohlížet / mít na starosti (NEVER biskup)	“Biskup” denotes a specific, later, hierarchical institutional office in every major Czech Christian tradition (Catholic, Hussite/Czechoslovak, Anglican-derived); using it would falsely import denominational church-polity structure absent from the text	Absolute prohibition on “biskup” in this context; enforce at validation stage like a forbidden-substitution rule
lord over / domineer	panovat nad	See A4	Distinguish sharply from Christ’s legitimate lordship
chief Shepherd	nejvyšší Pastýř	Anchors elders’ derivative, accountable authority	Always paired with elder-shepherd language for theological coherence
crown of glory	koruna slávy	”Koruna” also names the Czech national currency (koruna česká) — a real, if minor, secular-collision risk	Brief clarifying note: a victor’s/honorific wreath, not currency or a monarch’s political crown
clothe yourselves with humility	oblečte se pokorou	”Pokora” alone is a mild, generically positive secular virtue-word (modesty); the vivid original image — tying on a servant’s work-apron — is entirely lost in a flat rendering	Recover the apron image explicitly; without it the call risks flattening into generic politeness rather than costly active self-lowering
witness of sufferings	svědek utrpení	Standard legal/testimonial vocabulary; comparatively low risk given overlap between secular and biblical sense	Standard rendering sufficient; light-touch review
dominion (closing doxology)	panství / moc	Standard doxological vocabulary; low collision, moderate unfamiliarity	Brief gloss sufficient

Chapter reviewed: 5 only (this doctrine’s exclusive textual home); ch. 1–4 contribute no new terms to this cluster.

A8. Christ’s Proclamation to the Spirits (1 Peter 3:18-22)

Element	Available Czech Term(s)	Weaknesses	Recommended Strategy
spirits in prison	duchové v vězení	One of the New Testament’s most disputed passages; Czech Catholic tradition’s developed doctrine of purgatory (historically dominant in Czech lands) risks a false “second-chance-after-death” reading if the translation is careless	Render literally; attach a translator’s/theologian’s note surveying interpretive options (fallen angels of Genesis 6? Noah’s disobedient contemporaries, now dead? proclamation of triumph, not an offer?) WITHOUT resolving the question unilaterally
gospel preached to the dead	evangelium zvěstováno mrtvým	Directly linked to the 3:19 difficulty	Same purgatory-adjacent caution as above; flag for theologian review every occurrence
baptism	křest	Genuinely sensitive across Czech denominational lines (Catholic, Hussite/Czechoslovak, various Protestant traditions hold differing baptismal theologies)	Peter’s own qualifier (“not a removal of dirt… but a pledge of a good conscience toward God”) must accompany the term every time, guarding against both a “the ritual itself saves” misreading and a denial of any meaningful connection to salvation
antitype / corresponding type	předobraz / protějšek	Technical typological vocabulary; no secular Czech equivalent	Brief methodological note on biblical typology as a category, not just this instance
right hand of God	pravice Boží	See A5	Brief idiom explanation
good conscience	dobré svědomí	Substantial secular overlap (“mít čisté/dobré svědomí” is common usage)	Comparatively low risk; standard rendering sufficient

Chapter reviewed: 3 only (3:18-22 is the doctrine’s exclusive textual home).

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B. Missing Vocabulary vs. Crowded Semantic Neighborhoods Needing Fencing

B1. Missing Vocabulary (comprehension gaps — term is rare/unfamiliar but not actively misleading)

These terms have no dominant competing secular sense; the risk is that they communicate nothing at all rather than the wrong thing.

Term	Czech	Fencing Need
foreknowledge	předzvědění (Boží)	Brief gloss; rare theological vocabulary
imperishable	nepomíjitelné	Brief gloss; literary rarity
antitype	předobraz / protějšek	Methodological note on typology
spiritual house / living stone	duchovní dům / živý kámen	Full narrative scaffolding (temple background absent)
holy nation / people for possession	svatý národ / lid Božího vlastnictví	Reframing note (see A3)
idolatry	modloslužba	Foundational explanation of functional modern idolatry
sprinkling of blood	pokropení krví	Exodus 24 background required
put to death in flesh, made alive in spirit	usmrcen v těle, obživen v duchu	Exegetical-options note, not resolution
dominion	panství / moc	Light gloss
brotherly love	nepokrytecká bratrská láska	Spiritual-family framing

B2. Crowded Semantic Neighborhoods (collision risks — term is common but points to the WRONG concept by default)

These require active fencing, i.e., explicit statements ruling out the dominant secular reading, not just a supplementary gloss.

Term	Czech	Competing Secular/Institutional Sense	Fencing Statement Needed
inheritance	dědictví	Probate/estate law: death-triggered, divisible, taxable, losable property	”Nehynoucí a nikdy neztratí hodnotu — ne jako pozemský majetek”
redemption/ransom	vykoupení	Commercial: redeeming a coupon, pawned goods, lottery ticket	”Vykoupeni ne penězi, ale drahou krví Kristovou”
lamb	beránek	Easter pastry/food symbol (Velikonoční beránek)	Anchor to Passover/sacrifice, not seasonal cuisine
holy/royal priesthood	kněžstvo	Ordained, institutional clergy (Catholic-dominant historical default)	“Všichni věřící — ne jen vysvěcení duchovní”
holy nation	národ	Modern political/ethnic nation-state identity	”Duchovní lid, ne politický národ”
elder	starší	Bare comparative adjective for “older"	"Uznávaný úřad ve sboru, ne pouze věk”
oversee	(avoid: biskup)	Specific later institutional office (bishop) in every major Czech tradition	Prohibit “biskup” outright; use “dohlížet”
submit	poddat se / podřídit se	20th-century enforced political submission (occupation, Communist rule)	Always attach the text’s own qualifiers (for the Lord’s sake; unjust suffering; God as just judge)
crown	koruna	National currency (koruna česká)	“Vavřínový věnec vítěze, ne mince ani politická koruna”
trial/testing	zkouška	School exam / driving test	”Zkouška víry — ne školní test”
genuineness	pravost	Consumer/forensic authenticity check (goods, currency, documents)	“Prověřena a očištěna jako zlato v ohni”
revelation (of Christ)	zjevení	Any insight/epiphany/apparition (including ghost-story usage)	“Budoucí, tělesný a viditelný návrat Krista — ne pouhé vnuknutí”
soul	duše	Secular wellness/self-care register (“péče o duši,” “duševní zdraví”)	“Celý člověk před Bohem — ne psychická pohoda”
freedom	svoboda	Political/libertarian freedom	”Svoboda k poslušnosti Bohu, ne bezmezná volnost”
spirits in prison	duchové v vězení	Catholic purgatory-doctrine “second chance after death” framework	Survey interpretive options; explicitly disclaim purgatory-adjacent reading as the mandated sense

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C. Transliteration vs. Paraphrase Decisions

Term	Decision	Rationale
diaspora	Transliterate (diaspora / rozptýlení as paired gloss)	Already a recognizable Czech word (“česká diaspora”) functioning as a helpful bridge term once the OT exile background is explained; paraphrase alone (“rozptýlení”) would lose the useful cultural bridge
sojourners/exiles (πάροικοι καὶ παρεπίδημοι)	Paraphrase, deliberately avoiding literal cognates — “poutníci a hosté”	Literal renderings drawing on modern migration vocabulary (“přistěhovalci,” “migranti”) would import a politically charged, partisan contemporary framework into a pastoral-theological self-identity metaphor; softer, non-political “pilgrims and guests” preserves the intended sense without the collision
Abba (N/A — not present in 1 Peter)	—	No occurrence in this letter; baseline convention (retain untranslated, paired with “Otče”) remains available if a lesson cross-references Romans 8
Babylon (code name, 5:13)	Retain proper noun + explanatory note	Literal transliteration is correct and necessary, but requires a note distinguishing symbolic usage (likely Rome) from both the literal ancient city and the modern geographic region, paralleling the baseline’s “Izrael” political-sensitivity caution
antitypos	Paraphrase, do not transliterate — “předobraz / protějšek”	Unlike “diaspora,” this Greek-derived technical term has no existing bridge presence in ordinary Czech; a transliteration (“antitypon”) would communicate nothing, so a native compound paraphrase paired with a methodological note is preferred
Mesiáš / Kristus-family terms	No new decision needed	Governed entirely by baseline; 1 Peter introduces no new occurrences requiring reconsideration
kněžstvo (priesthood)	Retain established Czech word, do NOT substitute a novel coinage	Inventing a new non-standard word to dodge the clergy-collision would break continuity with the wider Czech Bible tradition (Bible kralická, ČEP both use kněžstvo here); the correct strategy is active doctrinal fencing (Section B2), not avoidance of the term itself
starší (elder)	Retain established Czech word, do NOT substitute	Same logic — “starší” is the ČEP/Kralice-tradition rendering; the fix is teaching, not lexical avoidance
biskup (bishop)	Deliberately EXCLUDED as a candidate rendering for ἐπισκοπέω/ἐπίσκοπος in 1 Peter 2:25 and 5:2	Explicit negative transliteration/borrowing decision: although “biskup” exists in Czech and IS the correct rendering for later institutional-office contexts, it must never be used to render Peter’s functional, non-institutional sense here

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D. Ranked List of This Letter’s Highest-Risk Ambiguities

Ranked by combined severity of (1) doctrinal centrality, (2) strength of the competing wrong reading, and (3) likelihood a Czech reader supplies that wrong reading automatically.

1. Holy/royal priesthood → clergy-only default reading (2:5, 2:9). Czech religious history makes “kněžstvo” mean ordained clergy by default; Peter’s all-believers claim is the theological inverse of the likely default reading. Critical.
2. Spirits in prison / gospel to the dead → purgatory-adjacent “second chance” reading (3:19; 4:6). Czech Catholic doctrinal history supplies a ready-made, wrong theological framework — a rare case for this Language Package of a rival framework risk rather than a no-framework risk. Critical.
3. Redemption/ransom → commercial coupon-redemption reading (1:18-19). Live, everyday transactional verb dominates; trivializes the blood-price. Critical.
4. Elder / oversee → bare age-category or false “bishop”-office import (5:1-5). Two distinct collision vectors on one doctrine cluster: flattening to seniority, or wrongly importing a hierarchical institutional office. Critical.
5. Baptism “now saves” → bare ritualism vs. denial of any saving connection (3:21). Denominationally live fault line across Czech Christian traditions; the qualifier clause is doctrinally load-bearing and easily dropped in abridged teaching material. Critical.
6. Submission → passive complicity under memory of totalitarian coercion (2:13-3:7; 5:5). Unique to Czech 20th-century history among this pipeline’s Language Packages; omission of the text’s qualifiers risks the passage reading as an endorsement of unqualified political obedience. High.
7. Inheritance → probate/estate-law default reading (1:4; 3:7). Death-contingent, divisible, taxable property is the near-opposite of Peter’s claim; recurs twice with different applications (individual hope; marital equality). High.
8. Living hope / new birth → generic optimism / self-help rebirth (1:3, 1:23). The letter’s opening thesis and this curriculum’s core passage; failure here undermines the entire curriculum’s foundation. High.
9. Living stone / spiritual house → total unfamiliarity, no ecclesiology fallback (2:4-5). 1 Peter builds its entire doctrine of the church on this image without ever using “církev,” so there is no simpler fallback term to lean on if the image fails to land. High.
10. Sanctify Christ as Lord → mental-assent flattening (3:15). Compounds two Critical baseline terms; the command’s active, enthroning force is easily reduced to passive belief. High.
11. Substitutionary “trpěl za nás” / “righteous for unrighteous” → losing the substitutionary “za” (2:21-25; 3:18). The letter deliberately holds substitution and example together; translation drift toward “example only” would be a significant doctrinal loss. High.
12. Trial/testing and tested genuineness → academic-exam / consumer-authenticity flattening (1:6-7). Both terms in the same two verses risk collapsing Peter’s costly refining metaphor into low-stakes, everyday registers. High.
13. Idolatry → total unfamiliarity with no modern referent at all (4:3). Inverse-risk case: absence of any collision paradoxically means absence of any comprehension foothold; requires the most active foundational teaching of any term with “low collision.” Medium-High.
14. Crown of glory → currency-name collision (5:4). Minor but real; easily corrected with a single clarifying clause. Medium.
15. Holy nation / chosen race → ethnic-nationalist misreading (2:9). Real risk given contemporary currency of national/ethnic-identity vocabulary in Czech public discourse, though less doctrinally central than items above. Medium.

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Summary for Phase 2 Handoff

• Nine terms are recommended for Critical-tier addition to bible_term_registry.json (already logged in 08_core_glossary.md Section C); this analysis confirms and ranks their severity above.
• The single most distinctive finding for this curriculum, relative to the Romans baseline: 1 Peter introduces several genuine rival-framework collisions (priesthood/clergy, baptism, spirits in prison/purgatory, elder/bishop, submission/totalitarian memory) that do not fit the baseline’s general “no competing framework” characterization of Czech. Phase 2 review routing should treat these specific terms with the same vigilance the baseline reserves for syncretism risk in other Language Packages, even though that is not the general pattern for Czech.
• All other new terms follow the baseline’s dominant pattern: comprehension gap or secular-flattening, requiring conceptual scaffolding rather than doctrinal correction of a rival belief.