Core Glossary
Core Glossary — 2 Peter | English → Czech
Curriculum: 2 Peter 1–3
Core passage: 2 Peter 1:16–21
Purpose: Complete per-term glossary for the 2 Peter curriculum, drawing on the full-book semantic analysis in analysis/07_semantic_analysis.md. Terms already recorded in the baseline Romans translation_memory.json are marked [BASELINE — REUSE EXACTLY] and reproduced here unchanged, per the hard requirement that established renderings must be reused exactly. All other terms are new entries proposed for this curriculum, risk-tiered on the same Critical/High/Medium/Low scale defined in the baseline doctrine_risk_registry.json.
Risk tier definitions (reused from baseline):
- Critical — Mistranslation alters or destroys essential doctrine. Human theologian review required for every occurrence.
- High — Mistranslation creates significant theological confusion or comprehension failure. Human theologian review required.
- Medium — Mistranslation reduces clarity but preserves essential meaning. Native speaker review recommended.
- Low — Mistranslation causes minor misunderstanding or imprecision. Automated review sufficient.
1. Terms Reused Exactly from the Baseline Romans Translation Memory
| English Term | Czech Term | Risk | Doctrine (2 Peter context) | First Occurrence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| faith | víra | High | Growing in Christian Virtue (1:1, 1:5) | 1:1 |
| grace | milost | High | Growing in Christian Virtue (grow in grace, 3:18) | 1:2 |
| righteousness | spravedlnost | Critical (baseline) | New heavens/earth “in which righteousness dwells” (3:13); preacher of righteousness (2:5) | 1:1 |
| god | Bůh | Critical | Divine Nature; all doctrines | 1:1 |
| jesus | Ježíš | Critical | Christ’s return, Lordship | 1:1 |
| lord | Pán | Critical | Certainty of Christ’s Return; Day of the Lord | 1:2 |
| glory | sláva | High | Deity/majesty of Christ (1:17), closing doxology (3:18) | 1:3 |
| prophet | prorok | Low (baseline) | Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture | 1:19 (root of “prorocké slovo”) |
| prophecy | proroctví | Medium (baseline) | Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture | 1:20 |
| calling | povolání | High | Growing in Christian Virtue (“confirm your calling,” 1:10) | 1:10 |
| election | vyvolení | High | Growing in Christian Virtue (“confirm your… election,” 1:10) | 1:10 |
| holy | svatý | Medium | Sainthood; holy mountain (1:18); holy men (1:21) | 1:18 |
| peace | pokoj | Medium | Closing greetings/exhortation (3:14, salutation 1:2) | 1:2 |
| apostle | apoštol | Low | Peter’s identity/authority (1:1) | 1:1 |
| kingdom_of_god | království Boží | Medium | Eternal kingdom (1:11) | 1:11 |
| holy_spirit | Duch svatý | Critical | Inspiration of Scripture (1:21) | 1:21 |
| power_of_god | moc Boží | Medium | Divine power / power and coming of Christ (1:3, 1:16) | 1:3 |
Note: “father” (Otec) is not activated in a load-bearing way in 2 Peter and is not repeated here; reuse the baseline rendering exactly if it occurs in supplementary devotional material.
2. New Terms — Doctrine: The Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
| English Term | Czech Term | Greek (translit.) | Risk | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scripture / writing | Písmo | γραφή (graphē) | High | Lowercase “písmo” is the ordinary Czech word for handwriting/font; capitalization is the only signal of the sacred sense, an inherently fragile marker per the same pattern baseline documents for “Pán.” Must be actively taught, never assumed self-evident. |
| prophetic word | prorocké slovo | προφητικὸς λόγος (prophētikos logos) | High | Anchors 1:19–21; requires OT prophetic-background scaffolding. |
| more fully confirmed | spolehlivější / pevnější | βεβαιότερον (bebaioteron) | High | Must preserve Peter’s claim that the written prophetic word is MORE reliable than his own eyewitness experience — never invert or soften this comparison. |
| interpretation / origination | výklad | ἐπίλυσις (epilysis) | High | Frequently misread as “no private Bible reading”; correct sense is that prophecy did not originate in the prophet’s own private understanding. Requires mandatory translator gloss every occurrence. |
| carried along (by the Spirit) | unášeni / puzeni (Duchem svatým) | φερόμενοι (pheromenoi) | Critical | The core verb of the letter’s central inspiration doctrine; must convey personal, purposive, sovereign divine agency without either erasing human authorial personality or implying mechanical dictation. Mandatory gloss on first use. |
| twist / distort | překrucovat | στρεβλόω (strebloō) | Medium-High | Must convey willful, culpable doctrinal distortion by false teachers, not innocent misreading; keeps unreliability located in the misusers, not in Scripture itself. |
| hard to understand | těžko pochopitelný | δυσνόητος (dysnoētos) | Low-Medium | Peter’s own candid admission regarding parts of Paul’s letters. |
3. New Terms — Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
| English Term | Czech Term | Greek (translit.) | Risk | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| virtue / moral excellence | ctnost | ἀρετή (aretē) | High | Recognizable but literary/philosophical register (echoes classical ethics); risks a moralistic-textbook feel rather than Spirit-empowered Christian quality. |
| godliness | zbožnost | εὐσέβεια (eusebeia) | High | Genuine Bible-tradition term but sounds old-fashioned/pietistic in ordinary Czech speech; needs reframing as vigorous, present-tense devotion, not archaic piety. |
| knowledge (full/personal) | poznání | ἐπίγνωσις / γνῶσις (epignōsis / gnōsis) | Medium | Both Greek terms rendered identically; ordinary secular word for any kind of knowledge, needs relational specification each time. |
| self-control | sebeovládání | ἐγκράτεια (egkrateia) | Medium | Preferred over the more literary “zdrženlivost” for contemporary accessibility. |
| endurance / perseverance | vytrvalost | ὑπομονή (hypomonē) | Medium | Deliberately kept distinct from God’s “trpělivost” (μακροθυμία, ch. 3) to preserve the human/divine distinction in the source text. |
| brotherly love | bratrská láska | φιλαδελφία (philadelphia) | Low | |
| love | láska | ἀγάπη (agapē) | High | New baseline-level entry (not present in the Romans TM). All-purpose Czech word for every kind of love; object and quality of love must be specified from context, exactly as required for “víra.” |
| growing in grace and knowledge | rostěte v milosti a poznání | αὐξάνετε ἐν χάριτι καὶ γνώσει | High | Inherits milost’s baseline risk profile; growth in grace must not be misread as growth in capacity to receive judicial pardon. |
| slave/servant (of Christ) | služebník | δοῦλος (doulos) | Medium | ”Otrok” (slave) more literal but rejected for register; softened rendering slightly under-translates the force of total ownership. |
4. New Terms — Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
| English Term | Czech Term | Greek (translit.) | Risk | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| false teachers | falešní učitelé | ψευδοδιδάσκαλοι (pseudodidaskaloi) | High | ”Učitel” primarily evokes an ordinary school teacher in secular Czech; the false, doctrinally corrupting spiritual-authority claim must be actively taught. |
| false prophets | falešní proroci | ψευδοπροφῆται (pseudoprophētai) | Medium | |
| destructive heresies/factions | škodlivé nauky | αἱρέσεις ἀπωλείας (haireseis apōleias) | High | ”Kacířství” (heresy) rejected due to strong Czech national-historical association with Jan Hus, a national hero executed for “heresy” — using it risks activating sympathy for the accused rather than Peter’s sense of destructive doctrinal error. |
| judgment | soud | κρίσις / κρίμα (krisis / krima) | High | Ordinary Czech word for a courtroom/legal trial; the eschatological, final, divine sense must be actively built up against this default legal association, paralleling baseline’s “ospravedlnění”/“milost” pattern. |
| punishment | trest | κόλασις (kolasis) | Medium | |
| cast into (Tartarus/the abyss) | uvrhl do propasti temnoty | ταρταρώσας (tartarōsas) | Medium | Avoid transliterating “Tartaros” directly: risks unintended phonetic collision with “Tataři” (the Tatars), a historically loaded Central European ethnic/military term. |
| Master/Sovereign (who bought them) | Panovník | δεσπότης (despotēs) | Medium | Deliberately distinct Czech word from “Pán,” preserving the separate nuance of absolute ownership/sovereignty. |
| bought / redeemed | vykoupil | ἀγοράζω (agorazō) | Medium-High | Introduces redemption/purchase imagery not otherwise glossed elsewhere in this curriculum; needs brief independent explanation. |
| sensuality / debauchery | bezuzdnost | ἀσέλγεια (aselgeia) | Medium | |
| freedom / liberty | svoboda | ἐλευθερία (eleutheria) | High | Distinctively Czech-historical risk: “svoboda” is emotionally and politically loaded with post-1989 Velvet Revolution associations (liberation from communism); Peter’s critique of a false promise of moral license must be actively distinguished from this dominant political-liberty association. |
| slaves of corruption | otroci zkázy | δοῦλοι τῆς φθορᾶς (douloi tēs phthoras) | Medium | Deliberately uses the harsher “otrok” (rather than ch. 1’s softened “služebník”) since total degrading bondage is the point. |
| Sodom and Gomorrah | Sodoma a Gomora | Σόδομα καὶ Γόμορρα | Medium | Colloquial Czech idiom “sodoma gomora” (= “total chaos/mess”) risks flattening the specific moral-judgment narrative into a joke about a messy room. |
| flood | potopa | κατακλυσμός (kataklysmos) | Low | Retains unusually wide general cultural recognition even among secular readers. |
5. New Terms — Doctrine: The Certainty of Christ’s Return
| English Term | Czech Term | Greek (translit.) | Risk | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| coming (Parousia) | příchod | παρουσία (parousia) | Critical | No competing secular Czech meaning exists to correct, but the entire eschatological category (a specific, bodily, visible, glorious future return) must be built from nothing; never soften to a vague spiritual “presence.” Must be rendered identically at 1:16, 3:4, 3:12. |
| eyewitnesses | očití svědkové | ἐπόπται (epoptai) | Low-Medium | Legal/testimonial Czech register here supports rather than undermines the theological point. |
| scoffers | posměvači | ἐμπαῖκται (empaiktai) | Medium-High | Must convey settled scornful unbelief about Christ’s return specifically, not generic teasing/joking. |
| myths / fables | báje | μῦθος (mythos) | Medium | Avoid the loanword “mýtus” (used casually of any popular misconception), which risks a pop-culture “fact-check” register. |
| majesty | velebnost | μεγαλειότης (megaleiotēs) | Medium |
6. New Terms — Doctrine: The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment
| English Term | Czech Term | Greek (translit.) | Risk | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| the Day of the Lord | den Páně | ἡμέρα Κυρίου (hēmera Kyriou) | Critical | Distinctive to this curriculum: in ordinary Czech Christian/liturgical usage (both Catholic and Protestant calendars), “den Páně” most commonly means Sunday, the weekly day of worship — a live standing idiom, not a blank slate. Must be explicitly and repeatedly distinguished from the weekly-Sunday sense at every occurrence. |
| destruction / perdition | zahynutí | ἀπώλεια (apōleia) | High | Ordinary Czech word primarily evokes simple physical death; the final, eternal ruin sense (antonym of salvation/spasení) must be actively distinguished from mere biological death. |
| fire | oheň | πῦρ (pyr) | Low | |
| elements | živly | στοιχεῖα (stoicheia) | Low-Medium | |
| new heavens and new earth | nové nebe a nová země | καινοὺς οὐρανοὺς καὶ γῆν καινήν | Medium | Per baseline’s fairy-tale-kingdom caution; anchor concretely in “righteousness dwelling” there rather than leaving as a vague fantastical image. |
| thief | zloděj | κλέπτης (kleptēs) | Low |
7. New Terms — Doctrine: Patience of God’s Timing
| English Term | Czech Term | Greek (translit.) | Risk | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| is patient / longsuffering (of God) | trpělivost (Boží) | μακροθυμεῖ (makrothymei) | High | Deliberately distinct Czech word from ὑπομονή’s “vytrvalost” (human endurance). Ordinary secular word (patience in traffic, with children); its covenantal, salvific weight — God deliberately delaying judgment to allow repentance — must be actively built up. |
| is slow / delays | neotálí (otálet) | βραδύνει (bradynei) | Medium | Must not imply God is bound by human standards of promptness. |
| repentance | pokání | μετάνοια (metanoia) | High | Distinctive risk for this Language Package: carries a live Roman Catholic sacramental association (the sacrament of confession/“zpověď”) from Czech historical-religious memory, risking a ritual/liturgical reading rather than Peter’s sense of an inward, decisive reorientation toward God. |
| one day as a thousand years | (contextual phrase, no single term) | μία ἡμέρα παρὰ Κυρίῳ ὡς χίλια ἔτη | Medium | Requires a doctrinal note distinguishing this from a merely poetic saying, connecting directly to μακροθυμία and βραδύνει. |
8. New Terms — Doctrine: Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption
| English Term | Czech Term | Greek (translit.) | Risk | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| partakers of the divine nature | podílníci na božské přirozenosti | θείας φύσεως κοινωνοί | Critical | Structurally unusual for this Language Package: unlike most terms here, this phrase risks colliding with a live contemporary framework — New Age/self-help spirituality (“higher self,” self-divinization, meditation culture) with real present-day Czech cultural traction despite low church attendance. Must be anchored firmly in covenantal participation through Christ, never a “divine spark within” or self-actualization reading. |
| corruption / decay | zkáza | φθορά (phthora) | High | Must be taught as moral corruption/ruin specifically, not physical decay/spoilage (the term’s more common everyday domain). |
| desire / lust | žádostivost | ἐπιθυμία (epithymia) | High | Deliberately avoids “žádost,” the ordinary bureaucratic Czech word for a formal application/request (job application, permit request); using bare “žádost” would flatten sinful craving into paperwork. |
| divine power | Boží moc | θεία δύναμις (theia dynamis) | Medium | Builds on baseline “moc Boží.” |
| promises | zaslíbení | ἐπαγγέλματα (epaggelmata) | Low-Medium | Distinct from ordinary “slib,” which helps preserve theological weight. |
| Savior | Spasitel | σωτήρ (sōtēr) | High | Shares the baseline’s “spasení” risk profile: a stable Bible-tradition word at risk of being a bare archaic label without narrative content (rescued from what, to what, by whom). |
9. Proper Names (Standard Forms, Low Risk)
| English | Czech | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Peter (Simon Peter) | Petr (Šimon Petr) | Standard established form. |
| Paul | Pavel | Per baseline system-prompt convention. |
| Christ | Kristus | Standard established form. |
| Noah | Noe | Well-known even to secular readers via general cultural literacy. |
| Sodom and Gomorrah | Sodoma a Gomora | See risk note in section 4 (colloquial idiom collision). |
| Balaam | Balaám | Requires brief OT narrative background (Numbers 22–24). |
Summary Risk Counts (New Terms Introduced by This Curriculum)
| Risk Tier | Count (new terms) | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | 5 (Písmo/γραφή context via ἐπίλυσις chain treated as High; φερόμενοι; θείας φύσεως κοινωνοί; παρουσία; ἡμέρα Κυρίου) | Human theologian |
| High | 15 | Human theologian |
| Medium | 22 | Native speaker review |
| Low | 8 | Automated review |
This glossary must be merged into translation_memory.json and bible_term_registry.json before Phase 2 segment translation begins for 2 Peter, per the Translation Memory Load and Enforcement Instructions in 12_ai_translation_requirements.md. All Critical and High risk new entries require theologian review and an approved plain-language gloss before first use in any Phase 2 document, per baseline scaffolding rules.
Critical Risk Terms
Righteousness
Approved rendering: spravedlnost
Transliteration: dikaiosynē
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: spravedlnost výhradně v moderním občanském/právním smyslu
Original: δικαιοσύνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly. 2 Peter 2:5 (‘preacher of righteousness’, kazatel spravedlnosti) and 3:13 (‘new earth in which righteousness dwells’) require the full theological sense, not mere civic fairness.
God
Approved rendering: Bůh
Transliteration: theos
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: θεός
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly. 2 Peter 1:1 (‘our God and Savior Jesus Christ’) places unusual doctrinal weight on this term via a Granville Sharp construction identifying Jesus as God; must never be misparsed as naming two separate figures.
Jesus
Approved rendering: Ježíš
Transliteration: Iēsous
Doctrine: Lordship and Deity of Christ
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly. Watch the colloquial exclamatory register (‘Ježíšmarjá’); formal doctrinal material must never echo it.
Lord
Approved rendering: Pán
Transliteration: kyrios
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ / Day of the Lord
Rejected alternatives: pán s malým ‘p’ ve smyslu běžného zdvořilostního oslovení (‘pane’)
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly. In 2 Peter recurs throughout the closing title ‘our Lord and Savior’ (1:11; 2:20; 3:2, 18) and within the compound phrase ‘den Páně’ (Day of the Lord, 3:10), which carries an additional, distinct Critical risk documented under ‘day_of_the_lord’ below.
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: Duch svatý
Transliteration: pneuma hagion
Doctrine: Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly. Direct agent of Scripture’s inspiration in 2 Peter 1:21; must always pair with the ‘carried along’ verb (see carried_along_by_spirit) to preserve personal, purposive divine agency.
Carried Along By Spirit
Approved rendering: unášeni Duchem svatým
Transliteration: hypo Pneumatos Hagiou pheromenoi
Doctrine: Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: pouhé lidské literární autorství bez Božího působení, mechanické diktování stírající osobnost lidských autorů
Original: ὑπὸ Πνεύματος Ἁγίου φερόμενοι
Category: Scripture
New term. The core anchor verb of the entire curriculum’s central inspiration doctrine (1:21) — a nautical image of a ship driven by wind. Must convey personal, purposive, sovereign divine agency working through, not replacing, the human authors’ personalities. Mandatory explanatory gloss on first use in every document.
Partakers Of Divine Nature
Approved rendering: podílníci na božské přirozenosti
Transliteration: theias physeōs koinōnoi
Doctrine: Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption
Rejected alternatives: podílníci chápaní jako ontologická identita s Bohem (advaitský typ), vrozená božská jiskra vyžadující jen sebeuvědomění (new age / sebezdokonalovací výklad)
Original: θείας φύσεως κοινωνοί
Category: Divine Nature
New term. Structurally unusual for this Language Package: unlike most terms here, this phrase risks colliding with a genuinely LIVE contemporary Czech spiritual framework — New Age and self-help spirituality (‘vyšší já’/higher self, yoga and meditation culture, pantheistic self-divinization) — with real present-day cultural traction despite low church attendance. Must be anchored firmly in covenantal participation through Christ (1:3-4’s causal chain), never a ‘divine spark within’ or self-actualization reading. Mandatory gloss required on every occurrence, not merely first use.
Beloved Son
Approved rendering: můj milovaný Syn
Transliteration: Huios mou ho agapētos
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Original: Υἱός μου ὁ ἀγαπητός
Category: Christology
New term. The Father’s direct verbal declaration of Christ’s unique divine Sonship at the Transfiguration (1:17); this is eternal, unique Sonship, not the adoptive ‘children of God’ sense applied to believers elsewhere. Basic Trinitarian categories need brief accompanying explanation, per the baseline’s ‘Syn Boží’ convention.
Coming Parousia
Approved rendering: příchod
Transliteration: parousia
Doctrine: Certainty of Christ’s Return
Rejected alternatives: parusie (transliterovaný odborný termín — zamítnuto, příliš neprůhledné pro čtenáře s nízkou biblickou gramotností)
Original: παρουσία
Category: Eschatology
New term. No competing secular Czech meaning exists to correct, but for that very reason the entire doctrinal category (a specific, bodily, visible, glorious future return, not a vague ongoing spiritual presence) must be built from nothing. Must be rendered identically at every occurrence: 1:16, 3:4, 3:12.
Day Of The Lord
Approved rendering: den Páně
Transliteration: hēmera Kyriou
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment
Rejected alternatives: den Páně chápaný jako neděle, běžný den bohoslužby (živý liturgický idiom v katolické i protestantské tradici)
Original: ἡμέρα Κυρίου
Category: Eschatology
New term. The single most distinctive collision risk in this curriculum: in ordinary Czech Christian/liturgical usage ‘den Páně’ most commonly denotes SUNDAY, the weekly day of worship — a LIVE standing idiom, not a blank slate (3:10). Must be explicitly and repeatedly distinguished from the weekly-Sunday sense at EVERY occurrence, compounding the baseline’s existing Critical rating for ‘Pán’ itself.
High Risk Terms
Faith
Approved rendering: víra
Transliteration: pistis
Doctrine: Faith / Growing in Christian Virtue
Rejected alternatives: víra v obecném slova smyslu (např. ‘víra v sebe sama’, víra ve výsledek)
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly. In 2 Peter 1:1 and 1:5, faith is the foundation onto which the virtue chain is built (‘stejně vzácná víra’, ‘equally precious faith’), not a vague personal outlook; the object of faith (Christ) must remain recoverable from context.
Grace
Approved rendering: milost
Transliteration: charis
Doctrine: Grace / Growing in Christian Virtue
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly. 2 Peter 3:18’s ‘grow in grace’ (rostěte v milosti) must not be misread as growth in one’s capacity to receive judicial pardon (milost’s ordinary secular sense), but as deepening relational reliance on unmerited favor.
Glory
Approved rendering: sláva
Transliteration: doxa
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: sláva ve smyslu světské slávy či úspěchu
Original: δόξα
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly. Central to 1:17 (glory received from the Father at the Transfiguration) and the closing doxology of 3:18.
Calling
Approved rendering: povolání
Transliteration: klēsis
Doctrine: Divine Calling and Election
Rejected alternatives: povolání výhradně ve smyslu civilního zaměstnání či profese
Original: κλῆσις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly. 2 Peter 1:10 (‘confirm your calling and election’) must not let ‘povolání’ register as one’s job or profession.
Election
Approved rendering: vyvolení
Transliteration: eklogē
Doctrine: Divine Calling and Election
Rejected alternatives: vyvolení v běžném, sekulárním smyslu úspěchu nebo výběru
Original: ἐκλογή
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly. Paired with ‘calling’ at 1:10; must not register as a competitive selection process (job interview, sports tryout).
Scripture
Approved rendering: Písmo
Transliteration: graphē
Doctrine: Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: písmo bez velkého písmene, chápané pouze jako rukopis nebo typ počítačového písma
Original: γραφή
Category: Scripture
New term. Lowercase ‘písmo’ is the ordinary Czech word for handwriting/font; capitalization is the only orthographic signal of the sacred sense, the same fragile-signal risk the baseline documents for ‘Pán.’ Must be actively taught on first use, never assumed self-evident from the capital letter alone.
Prophetic Word
Approved rendering: prorocké slovo
Transliteration: prophētikos logos
Doctrine: Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Original: προφητικὸς λόγος
Category: Scripture
New term. Anchors 2 Peter 1:19-21; requires Old Testament prophetic-background scaffolding not assumable for a general secular reader.
More Fully Confirmed
Approved rendering: spolehlivější / pevnější
Transliteration: bebaioteron
Doctrine: Prophetic Word and Its Fulfillment
Rejected alternatives: stejně spolehlivé jako vidění, potvrzené viděním
Original: βεβαιότερον
Category: Scripture
New term. Must preserve Peter’s claim that the written prophetic word is MORE reliable than his own eyewitness experience of the Transfiguration (1:19); inverting or softening this comparison directly undercuts the Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture doctrine.
Interpretation Origination
Approved rendering: výklad
Transliteration: epilysis
Doctrine: Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: výklad ve smyslu zákazu osobního čtení a výkladu Bible
Original: ἐπίλυσις
Category: Scripture
New term. Frequently mistranslated/misapplied clause (1:20); requires a mandatory clarifying gloss every occurrence: ‘nevzniklo z vlastního výkladu proroka’ (origin, not permission-to-read).
Twist Distort
Approved rendering: překrucovat
Transliteration: strebloō
Doctrine: Scripture Misinterpretation and False Teaching
Rejected alternatives: nevinné neporozumění nebo omyl
Original: στρεβλόω
Category: Scripture
New term. Must convey willful, culpable doctrinal distortion by false teachers (3:16), not innocent misunderstanding, so unreliability is located in the misusers, never in Scripture itself.
Virtue
Approved rendering: ctnost
Transliteration: aretē
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Original: ἀρετή
Category: Virtue
New term. Recognizable but carries a distinctly literary/classical-philosophical register in contemporary Czech (echoes school ethics-textbook vocabulary); needs concrete, relational framing rather than abstract moralism.
Godliness
Approved rendering: zbožnost
Transliteration: eusebeia
Doctrine: Godliness and Practical Devotion
Original: εὐσέβεια
Category: Virtue
New term. A genuine Bible-tradition term but sounds distinctly old-fashioned/pietistic in ordinary contemporary Czech; needs active reframing as vigorous, present-day practical devotion, not archaic piety.
Love Agape
Approved rendering: láska
Transliteration: agapē
Doctrine: Christian Love
Original: ἀγάπη
Category: Virtue
New term. ‘Láska’ is the single all-purpose Czech word for every kind of love — romantic, familial, love of a hobby or place — with zero inherent distinction for the specific, willed, self-giving divine love intended in 1:7; the object and quality of this love must be specified from context every time, exactly as required for ‘víra.‘
Grow In Grace And Knowledge
Approved rendering: rostěte v milosti a poznání
Transliteration: auxanete en chariti kai gnōsei
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Original: αὐξάνετε ἐν χάριτι καὶ γνώσει
Category: Virtue
New term. The letter’s closing exhortation (3:18), bookending the virtue-list of chapter 1; inherits milost’s baseline risk profile and compounds it with an unusual ‘growth’ framing not present in the baseline Romans occurrences of milost.
Savior
Approved rendering: Spasitel
Transliteration: sōtēr
Doctrine: Salvation and the Savior
Original: σωτήρ
Category: Salvation
New term. Shares the baseline’s Critical ‘spasení’ risk profile: a stable, recognized Bible-tradition word, but for a secular reader risks being a bare archaic label without narrative content; must always be accompanied by the same narrative unpacking (rescued from what, to what, by whom) the baseline requires for salvation.
Corruption Decay
Approved rendering: zkáza
Transliteration: phthora
Doctrine: Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption
Rejected alternatives: zkáza chápaná pouze jako fyzický rozklad nebo zkažení potravin
Original: φθορά
Category: Divine Nature
New term. Must be taught as MORAL corruption/ruin specifically (1:4; 2:19), not physical decay or spoilage, the more common everyday domain of the related Czech word family.
Desire Lust
Approved rendering: žádostivost
Transliteration: epithymia
Doctrine: Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption
Rejected alternatives: žádost (běžné úřední slovo pro formální žádost/žádost o povolení, např. žádost o zaměstnání)
Original: ἐπιθυμία
Category: Divine Nature
New term. ‘Žádostivost’ deliberately avoids the collision with bureaucratic ‘žádost,’ which would flatten sinful craving (1:4; 2:10, 2:18; 3:3) into paperwork; needs a plain-language gloss on first use.
False Teachers
Approved rendering: falešní učitelé
Transliteration: pseudodidaskaloi
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Original: ψευδοδιδάσκαλοι
Category: False Teaching
New term. ‘Učitel’ in ordinary Czech overwhelmingly evokes an ordinary school teacher, a profession rather than a spiritual-authority role; the doctrinal weight — a teacher claiming Christian authority while corrupting the gospel (2:1) — must be actively taught, not assumed.
Destructive Heresies
Approved rendering: škodlivé nauky
Transliteration: haireseis apōleias
Doctrine: Destructive Heresy and Doctrinal Error
Rejected alternatives: kacířství (zamítnuto — silná národně-historická asociace s Janem Husem, národním hrdinou popraveným za ‘kacířství’)
Original: αἱρέσεις ἀπωλείας
Category: False Teaching
New term. ‘Kacířství’ risks activating sympathy for an unjustly persecuted national figure rather than Peter’s sense of destructive doctrinal error (2:1); ‘škodlivé nauky’ avoids this collision entirely.
Judgment
Approved rendering: soud
Transliteration: krisis / krima
Doctrine: Divine Judgment on the Ungodly
Original: κρίσις / κρίμα
Category: Judgment
New term. ‘Soud’ is the completely ordinary Czech word for a courtroom or legal trial; this everyday sense will be the reader’s only default association (2:3, 2:4, 2:9; cf. 3:7). The divine, eschatological, final nature of God’s judgment must be actively taught against this default legal association.
Bought Redeemed
Approved rendering: vykoupil
Transliteration: agorazō
Doctrine: Redemption through Christ’s Purchase
Original: ἀγοράζω
Category: Salvation
New term. Christ’s purchase/ownership of believers through the price of redemption, denied by the false teachers’ conduct (2:1); redemption/purchase imagery is not otherwise glossed elsewhere in this curriculum and needs independent brief explanation so it is not read as a merely commercial transaction detached from the cross.
Freedom Liberty
Approved rendering: svoboda
Transliteration: eleutheria
Doctrine: False Freedom and Slavery to Corruption
Original: ἐλευθερία
Category: False Teaching
New term. Distinctively Czech-historical risk: ‘svoboda’ is one of the most emotionally and politically resonant words in contemporary Czech, tied to the 1989 Velvet Revolution and liberation from communist rule. A secular reader’s primary, deeply positive association will be political/civic liberty, not moral license — this must be actively distinguished from Peter’s critique of a false promise of freedom FROM moral constraint that is actually enslavement to corruption (2:19).
Scoffers
Approved rendering: posměvači
Transliteration: empaiktai
Doctrine: Certainty of Christ’s Return
Original: ἐμπαῖκται
Category: Eschatology
New term. Those who deride the promise of Christ’s return (3:3); must convey scornful, settled unbelief specifically about the Parousia, not generic teasing or joking, the term’s more common everyday connotation.
Destruction Perdition
Approved rendering: zahynutí
Transliteration: apōleia
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment
Rejected alternatives: zahynutí ve smyslu pouhé biologické nebo nehodové smrti
Original: ἀπώλεια
Category: Eschatology
New term. Ordinary Czech ‘zahynutí’ primarily evokes simple physical death; the New Testament sense of FINAL, ETERNAL ruin, the direct antonym of ‘spasení’ (3:7, 3:16; cf. 2:1, 2:3), must be actively distinguished from mere biological death.
Is Patient Longsuffering
Approved rendering: trpělivost
Transliteration: makrothymei
Doctrine: Patience of God’s Timing
Rejected alternatives: trpělivost zaměněná s lidskou vytrvalostí (ὑπομονή, kap. 1)
Original: μακροθυμεῖ
Category: Eschatology
New term. God’s deliberate withholding of judgment to allow opportunity for repentance (3:9, 3:15); an entirely ordinary secular Czech word whose covenantal, salvific weight must be actively built up, not assumed. Deliberately kept lexically distinct from ch. 1’s ‘vytrvalost’ — a hard fencing rule.
Repentance
Approved rendering: pokání
Transliteration: metanoia
Doctrine: Repentance
Rejected alternatives: pokání chápané výhradně jako rituální/liturgický akt (svátost zpovědi)
Original: μετάνοια
Category: Eschatology
New term. Distinctive risk for this Language Package: ‘pokání’ carries a LIVE Roman Catholic sacramental association (the sacrament of confession, ‘zpověď’) persisting as background cultural knowledge even among the non-practicing (3:9); risks a ritual reading rather than Peter’s sense of an inward, decisive reorientation of life toward God. Mandatory gloss required at every occurrence.
Fall Away
Approved rendering: odpadnout
Transliteration: ekpiptō
Doctrine: Apostasy and Falling Away
Original: ἐκπίπτω
Category: Scripture
New term. The danger of losing one’s own firm standing through exposure to false teachers’ error (3:17); bears directly on apostasy debates and must be handled with the same care the baseline gives assurance-of-salvation language, without unilaterally resolving that debate in the translation itself.
Medium Risk Terms
Prophecy
Approved rendering: proroctví
Transliteration: prophēteia
Doctrine: Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: proroctví jako věštba nebo předpověď budoucnosti
Original: προφητεία
Category: Scripture
Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly. Central to 2 Peter 1:19-21 and to the false prophets of 2:1.
Holy
Approved rendering: svatý
Transliteration: hagios
Doctrine: Sanctification / Sainthood
Original: ἅγιος
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly. Applied to the mountain of Transfiguration (1:18) and to the human authors of Scripture (‘holy men’, 1:21); the corporate, non-canonized sense must still be taught.
Peace
Approved rendering: pokoj
Transliteration: eirēnē
Doctrine: Peace with God
Rejected alternatives: pokoj ve smyslu pouhého klidu či nepřítomnosti hluku
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly. Salutation (1:2) and closing exhortation (3:14).
Kingdom Of God
Approved rendering: království Boží
Transliteration: basileia tou theou
Doctrine: Kingdom Mission
Original: βασιλεία
Category: Kingdom
Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly. 2 Peter 1:11’s ‘eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ’; guard against the fairy-tale-kingdom association per baseline caution.
Power Of God
Approved rendering: moc Boží
Transliteration: dynamis theou / theia dynamis
Doctrine: Divine Nature
Original: δύναμις θεοῦ / θεία δύναμις
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly. Invoked of Christ’s Parousia (1:16) and divine provision for life and godliness (1:3).
Hard To Understand
Approved rendering: těžko pochopitelný
Transliteration: dysnoēta
Doctrine: Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Original: δυσνόητα
Category: Scripture
New term. Peter’s candid admission (3:16) regarding parts of Paul’s letters; must not be softened into implying Scripture is generally unreliable — difficulty of comprehension is not unreliability of content.
Knowledge
Approved rendering: poznání
Transliteration: epignōsis / gnōsis
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Rejected alternatives: poznání pouze jako běžná informace nebo dovednost v jakékoli sekulární oblasti
Original: ἐπίγνωσις / γνῶσις
Category: Virtue
New term. Both Greek terms (ἐπίγνωσις and γνῶσις) are deliberately rendered identically in Czech (1:2, 1:3, 1:5, 1:6, 1:8); the relational, transformative sense specific to knowing God must be actively built up, not assumed.
Self Control
Approved rendering: sebeovládání
Transliteration: egkrateia
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Rejected alternatives: zdrženlivost (více literární/zastaralé, méně přístupné)
Original: ἐγκράτεια
Category: Virtue
New term. Preferred for contemporary accessibility, consistent with the system’s preference for ČEP’s readable register (1:6).
Endurance
Approved rendering: vytrvalost
Transliteration: hypomonē
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Rejected alternatives: trpělivost (vyhrazeno výhradně pro Boží trpělivost, μακροθυμία, kap. 3)
Original: ὑπομονή
Category: Virtue
New term. Deliberately kept terminologically distinct from God’s ‘trpělivost’ (see is_patient_longsuffering) so the human-endurance virtue of chapter 1 and the divine-forbearance doctrine of chapter 3 are never collapsed into a single Czech word — enforced as a hard fencing rule.
Servant Slave
Approved rendering: služebník
Transliteration: doulos
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue / Church
Rejected alternatives: otrok (příliš tvrdé/archaické pro formální úvodní pozdrav 1:1, ale zachováno záměrně pro 2:19 ‘otroci zkázy’)
Original: δοῦλος
Category: Church
New term. Peter’s self-identification as Christ’s owned possession (1:1); ‘služebník’ slightly under-translates the force of total ownership and should be paired with a brief note on first use. The harsher ‘otrok’ is deliberately retained elsewhere for the false teachers’ ‘slaves of corruption.‘
Equally Precious Faith
Approved rendering: stejně vzácná víra
Transliteration: isotimos pistis
Doctrine: Faith
Original: ἰσότιμος πίστις
Category: Faith
New term. All believers, regardless of background, share a faith of identical worth and standing before God (1:1) — an early instance of the ‘no distinction’ universality theme also present in Romans.
Divine Power
Approved rendering: Boží moc
Transliteration: theia dynamis
Doctrine: Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption
Original: θεία δύναμις
Category: Divine Nature
New term. Builds on the baseline ‘moc Boží’; source of ‘all things necessary for life and godliness’ (1:3).
Promises
Approved rendering: zaslíbení
Transliteration: epaggelmata
Doctrine: Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption
Rejected alternatives: slib (běžné slovo pro všední, každodenní slib)
Original: ἐπαγγέλματα
Category: Divine Nature
New term. God’s specific pledges regarding participation in the divine nature and escape from corruption (1:4); ‘zaslíbení’ preserves theological weight that ‘slib’ would flatten.
False Prophets
Approved rendering: falešní proroci
Transliteration: pseudoprophētai
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Original: ψευδοπροφῆται
Category: False Teaching
New term. The Old Testament precedent (2:1) for the false teachers arising in the church; builds on the established ‘prorok.‘
Punishment
Approved rendering: trest
Transliteration: kolasis
Doctrine: Divine Judgment on the Ungodly
Original: κόλασις
Category: Judgment
New term. The certain punishment reserved for the unrighteous until the day of judgment (2:9); the eschatological, reserved-for-judgment sense must be retained over a generic disciplinary sense.
Cast Into Abyss
Approved rendering: uvrhl do propasti temnoty
Transliteration: tartarōsas
Doctrine: Divine Judgment on the Ungodly
Rejected alternatives: Tartaros (přímý přepis — zamítnuto pro riziko fonetické kolize s ‘Tataři’, historicky zatíženým etnicko-vojenským termínem)
Original: ταρταρώσας
Category: Judgment
New term. Peter borrows a term from Greek mythology (Tartarus) to describe the confinement of the fallen angels (2:4); descriptive paraphrase avoids the unintended collision entirely.
Master Sovereign
Approved rendering: Panovník
Transliteration: despotēs
Doctrine: Redemption through Christ’s Purchase
Rejected alternatives: Pán (zamítnuto — nutno zachovat samostatnou nuanci absolutní vlády/vlastnictví δεσπότης odlišnou od κύριος)
Original: δεσπότης
Category: Christology
New term. Christ’s absolute mastery/sovereignty over believers (2:1), deliberately rendered with a distinct Czech word from ‘Pán.‘
Sensuality
Approved rendering: bezuzdnost
Transliteration: aselgeia
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Original: ἀσέλγεια
Category: False Teaching
New term. Unrestrained, shameless indulgence promoted and modeled by the false teachers (2:2, 2:7, 2:18).
Slaves Of Corruption
Approved rendering: otroci zkázy
Transliteration: douloi tēs phthoras
Doctrine: False Freedom and Slavery to Corruption
Original: δοῦλοι τῆς φθορᾶς
Category: False Teaching
New term. The false teachers’ actual condition, the opposite of the freedom they promise (2:19); deliberately uses the harsher ‘otrok’ rather than 1:1’s softened ‘služebník,’ since total, degrading bondage is precisely Peter’s point.
Sodom And Gomorrah
Approved rendering: Sodoma a Gomora
Transliteration: Sodoma kai Gomorra
Doctrine: Divine Judgment on the Ungodly
Original: Σόδομα καὶ Γόμορρα
Category: Judgment
New term. The destroyed cities of Genesis 19, offered as historical proof of certain divine judgment (2:6). Contemporary colloquial Czech uses the idiom ‘je tam sodoma gomora’ to mean simply ‘total chaos/a mess’; the specific moral-judgment content must be actively retaught against this idiomatic flattening, anchoring the phrase to the Genesis narrative every occurrence.
Waterless Springs
Approved rendering: vyschlé prameny
Transliteration: pēgai anydroi
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Original: πηγαὶ ἄνυδροι
Category: False Teaching
New term. An image of the false teachers’ empty promises (2:17); metaphor needs brief unpacking for full force.
Darkness Gloom
Approved rendering: temnota
Transliteration: zophos
Doctrine: Divine Judgment on the Ungodly
Original: ζόφος
Category: Judgment
New term. The darkness of final judgment reserved for false teachers (2:4, 2:17).
Empty Words
Approved rendering: nadutá, prázdná slova
Transliteration: huperogka mataiotētos
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Original: ὑπέρογκα ματαιότητος
Category: False Teaching
New term. The false teachers’ impressive-sounding but ultimately empty rhetoric (2:18); ‘marnost’ has faint residual cultural recognition via the Bible-tradition phrase ‘marnost nad marnost’ (Ecclesiastes).
Myths Fables
Approved rendering: báje
Transliteration: mythos
Doctrine: Apostolic Eyewitness Testimony
Rejected alternatives: mýtus (běžné přejaté slovo, riziko popkulturního rejstříku ‘to je jen mýtus’)
Original: μῦθος
Category: Christology
New term. Explicitly denied by Peter as the source of the apostolic testimony to Christ’s glory (1:16); ‘báje’ preserves the register of an invented ancient legendary narrative, avoiding the fact-checking register of ‘mýtus.‘
Eyewitnesses
Approved rendering: očití svědkové
Transliteration: epoptai
Doctrine: Apostolic Eyewitness Testimony
Original: ἐπόπται
Category: Christology
New term. Peter grounds apostolic authority in direct, personal, verifiable sight of the Transfiguration (1:16); legal/testimonial Czech vocabulary (‘svědek’) actually supports rather than undermines the theological point here.
Majesty
Approved rendering: velebnost
Transliteration: megaleiotēs
Doctrine: Apostolic Eyewitness Testimony
Original: μεγαλειότης
Category: Christology
New term. The visible splendor of Christ’s divine glory at the Transfiguration (1:16); needs pairing with concrete narrative content, not left as an abstract noun.
Voice Borne
Approved rendering: hlas se ozval
Transliteration: phōnēn ēnechthē
Doctrine: Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Original: φωνὴν ἠνέχθη
Category: Christology
New term. The Father’s voice at the Transfiguration (1:18), described with the same ‘carrying’ verb Peter deliberately reuses of Scripture’s origin in 1:21; render with the same verb family where possible to preserve Peter’s intentional rhetorical bridge.
Well Pleased
Approved rendering: v němž se mi zalíbilo
Transliteration: eudokēsa
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: líbit se (běžné, konzumní/preferenční užití, např. o filmu nebo nákupu)
Original: εὐδόκησα
Category: Christology
New term. Divine approval and delight in the Son (1:17), echoing Matthew 3:17; must not collapse into casual consumer-preference register.
Creation
Approved rendering: stvoření
Transliteration: ktisis
Doctrine: Certainty of Christ’s Return
Original: κτίσις
Category: Eschatology
New term. Invoked by the scoffers’ argument that nothing has changed since creation began (3:4).
Day As Thousand Years
Approved rendering: jeden den je u Pána jako tisíc let
Transliteration: mia hēmera para Kyriō hōs chilia etē
Doctrine: Patience of God’s Timing
Original: μία ἡμέρα παρὰ Κυρίῳ ὡς χίλια ἔτη
Category: Eschatology
New term (full phrase, not a single-word entry). God’s transcendence over human time-perception (3:8); requires a doctrinal note distinguishing this from a merely poetic saying, connecting it directly to God’s patience and the denial that he is ‘slow.‘
Is Slow Delays
Approved rendering: neotálí
Transliteration: bradynei
Doctrine: Patience of God’s Timing
Original: βραδύνει
Category: Eschatology
New term (from ‘otálet,’ to delay/procrastinate). The Lord is explicitly said NOT to be slow concerning his promise (3:9); must not imply God is bound by ordinary human standards of promptness.
Elements
Approved rendering: živly
Transliteration: stoicheia
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment
Original: στοιχεῖα
Category: Eschatology
New term. The fundamental constituents of the physical universe, dissolved at the Day of the Lord (3:10, 3:12); standard, largely non-technical word (also used of ‘raging elements’ in storms).
New Heavens And New Earth
Approved rendering: nové nebe a nová země
Transliteration: kainous ouranous kai gēn kainēn
Doctrine: New Heavens and New Earth Hope
Original: καινοὺς οὐρανοὺς καὶ γῆν καινήν
Category: Eschatology
New term. The promised, renewed, sin-free created order (3:13); per the baseline’s fairy-tale-kingdom caution, must be anchored concretely in ‘righteousness dwelling there’ (3:13b), not left as a vague fantastical image.
Be Diligent
Approved rendering: usilujte
Transliteration: spoudasate
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Original: σπουδάσατε
Category: Virtue
New term. The practical exhortation to holy living in light of certain future judgment (3:14).
Without Spot Blameless
Approved rendering: neposkvrněný a bez úhony
Transliteration: aspilos / amōmētos
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Original: ἄσπιλος / ἀμώμητος
Category: Virtue
New term. Sacrificial-purity imagery (3:14); needs brief unpacking for a reader unfamiliar with Old Testament sacrificial background.
Firmness Unstable
Approved rendering: stálost / nestálý
Transliteration: stērigmos / astēriktos
Doctrine: Scripture Misinterpretation and False Teaching
Original: στηριγμός / ἀστήρικτος
Category: Scripture
New term. Steadfastness versus a lack of stability that makes one vulnerable to the false teachers’ error (3:16-17).
Error Deception
Approved rendering: blud
Transliteration: planē
Doctrine: Destructive Heresy and Doctrinal Error
Original: πλάνη
Category: False Teaching
New term. The doctrinal error of the false teachers, contrasted with the firm truth of apostolic teaching (3:17); established, doctrinally precise but somewhat formal/literary register requiring brief context.
Tent Body
Approved rendering: tělesný stánek
Transliteration: skēnōma
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Rejected alternatives: stánek samotné (běžné slovo pro tržní stánek nebo novinový stánek)
Original: σκήνωμα
Category: Virtue
New term. Peter’s body described as a temporary ‘tent’ soon laid aside (1:13); the qualifier ‘tělesný’ is necessary to prevent an incongruous commercial association.
Departure Exodus
Approved rendering: odchod
Transliteration: exodos
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment
Original: ἔξοδος
Category: Eschatology
New term. Peter’s coming death (1:15), described with a term deliberately echoing the Exodus narrative; the allusion is likely lost on a secular reader without an accompanying note.
Low Risk Terms
Christ
Approved rendering: Kristus
Transliteration: Christos
Doctrine: Christology
Original: Χριστός
Category: Christology
New entry for this curriculum (not separately tracked in the Romans baseline TM, which used ‘Mesiáš’ for Χριστός). Standard, stable proper-name/title form used throughout 2 Peter as part of the full title ‘our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.’ Always appears alongside higher-risk terms (Pán, Spasitel) that carry the doctrinal weight.
Prophet
Approved rendering: prorok
Transliteration: prophētēs
Doctrine: Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: prorok ve smyslu věštce nebo jasnovidce
Original: προφήτης
Category: Scripture
Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly.
Apostle
Approved rendering: apoštol
Transliteration: apostolos
Doctrine: Apostleship
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package; reused exactly. Peter’s self-designation (1:1) and the collective apostolic witness (3:2).
Brotherly Love
Approved rendering: bratrská láska
Transliteration: philadelphia
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Original: φιλαδελφία
Category: Virtue
New term. Familial affection and loyalty among believers (1:7), distinct from and preparatory to ἀγάπη.
Flood
Approved rendering: potopa
Transliteration: kataklysmos
Doctrine: Historical Types of Judgment and Deliverance
Original: κατακλυσμός
Category: Judgment
New term. God’s historical judgment on the ancient world (2:5); the Noah narrative retains unusually wide general cultural recognition even among secular Czechs.
Balaam
Approved rendering: Balaám
Transliteration: Balaam
Doctrine: Historical Types of Judgment and Deliverance
Original: Βαλαάμ
Category: Judgment
New term (proper name). The Old Testament prophet-for-hire of Numbers 22-24 (2:15); requires brief Old Testament background explanation, as it is unlikely to be culturally familiar.
Honor
Approved rendering: čest
Transliteration: timē
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: τιμή
Category: Christology
New term. Honor conferred on Christ by the Father at the Transfiguration (1:17).
Fire
Approved rendering: oheň
Transliteration: pyr
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment
Original: πῦρ
Category: Eschatology
New term. The means of final judgment and dissolution of the present created order (3:7, 3:10, 3:12).
Thief
Approved rendering: zloděj
Transliteration: kleptēs
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment
Original: κλέπτης
Category: Eschatology
New term. The Day of the Lord’s suddenness, likened to a thief’s unannounced arrival (3:10).
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