Core Glossary
Core Glossary: 2 Thessalonians (English → Czech)
Purpose
This glossary consolidates every load-bearing theological term identified in 07_semantic_analysis.md, spanning all three chapters of 2 Thessalonians. Terms already established in the baseline Romans Language Package are marked REUSED and carry forward their exact recorded Czech rendering and risk tier without modification. New terms introduced by 2 Thessalonians are risk-tiered using the identical Critical/High/Medium/Low framework defined in the Romans doctrine_risk_registry.json.
Status key:
- REUSED — term and rendering imported unchanged from Romans
translation_memory.json/bible_term_registry.json - NEW — term first analyzed for this curriculum; rendering and risk tier proposed here for ratification in Phase 1 Step 2 (doctrine risk registry extension)
Glossary Table
| English Term | Original (Greek) | Transliteration | Czech Rendering | Status | Risk | Doctrine Linkage | Translation Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lord | κύριος | kyrios | Pán | REUSED | Critical | Lordship of Christ / Day of the Lord | Capitalization is the only signal separating divine lordship from the everyday honorific “pane”; must be actively taught, not assumed, exactly as in Romans. |
| God | θεός | theos | Bůh | REUSED | Critical | God’s Righteous Judgment | Standard, unambiguous. |
| Jesus | Ἰησοῦς | Iēsous | Ježíš | REUSED | Critical | Day of the Lord | Watch register: avoid any echo of “Ježíšmarjá” colloquial exclamation in formal material, per Romans baseline caution. |
| Christ | Χριστός | Christos | Kristus | NEW (standard form, not a discrete Romans TM entry but implied throughout) | Low | All doctrines | Established, stable Czech Bible-tradition form; low risk, always paired with Ježíš or used titularly. |
| gospel | εὐαγγέλιον | euangelion | evangelium | REUSED | High | Day of the Lord (1:8, obedience to the gospel) | Must be actively defined, not assumed, per Romans baseline. |
| grace | χάρις | charis | milost | REUSED | High | (general; closing benedictions) | Judicial-clemency secular drift risk unchanged from baseline. |
| peace | εἰρήνη | eirēnē | pokoj | REUSED | Medium | Standing Firm in the Traditions (closing benediction, “Pán pokoje”) | Distinguish from mere quiet/absence of noise, per baseline. |
| faith | πίστις | pistis | víra | REUSED | High | Perseverance under Persecution | Object of faith must remain explicit; growing faith amid persecution (1:3). |
| church | ἐκκλησία | ekklēsia | církev | REUSED | Medium | Perseverance under Persecution | Distinguish from “kostel” (building), per baseline. |
| holy / saints | ἅγιος / ἅγιοι | hagios / hagioi | svatý / svatí | REUSED | High | God’s Righteous Judgment (glorified in his saints, 1:10) | Corporate sense for all believers, not calendar name-day trivia, per baseline. |
| sanctification | ἁγιασμός | hagiasmos | posvěcení | REUSED | High | Standing Firm in the Traditions (2:13) | Distinguish from ceremonial building-blessing sense, per baseline. |
| kingdom of God | βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ | basileia tou theou | království Boží | REUSED | Medium | God’s Righteous Judgment (1:5) | Guard against fairy-tale-kingdom association, per baseline. |
| calling / called | κλῆσις / κλητός | klēsis / klētos | povolání / povolaný | REUSED | High | God’s Righteous Judgment (1:11) | Distinguish from “job/profession” sense, per baseline. |
| election / chose | ἐκλογή / αἱρέομαι | eklogē / haireomai | vyvolení / vyvolil | REUSED | High | Perseverance under Persecution / Standing Firm (2:13, “chosen… for salvation”) | Distinguish from competitive-selection secular sense, per baseline. |
| glory | δόξα | doxa | sláva | REUSED | Medium | God’s Righteous Judgment (1:9-10) | Distinguish from worldly fame, per baseline. |
| Holy Spirit / Spirit | πνεῦμα (ἅγιον) | pneuma (hagion) | Duch (svatý) | REUSED | Critical | Standing Firm in the Traditions (2:13, “sanctification of the Spirit”) | Personal third Person of the Trinity, per baseline. |
| the coming (of the Lord) | παρουσία | parousia | příchod | NEW | Critical | The Day of the Lord | Ordinary Czech word for any routine “arrival” (a train, a season); carries zero inherited apocalyptic weight. Must be paired every time with explicit narrative teaching: Christ’s future, visible, bodily, climactic return. Mandatory theologian review on first use in every document. |
| gathering together | ἐπισυναγωγή | episynagōgē | shromáždění | NEW | Medium | The Day of the Lord (2:1) | Rare NT word; ordinary Czech civic-assembly term must be given eschatological content explicitly. |
| Day of the Lord | ἡμέρα τοῦ κυρίου | hēmera tou kyriou | den Páně | NEW | Critical | The Day of the Lord | Established Bible-tradition phrase with no direct secular competitor, but the underlying doctrine (a specific, climactic, future day of judgment/consummation) cannot be assumed as background knowledge; must be taught narratively, not merely named, parallel to “spasení” in the Romans baseline. Do not confuse with “Sunday.” |
| has already come | ἐνέστηκεν (perfect of ἐνίστημι) | enestēken | již nastal | NEW | High | The Day of the Lord | Precision required: “has already happened,” not “is imminent”; the distinction drives Paul’s entire argument in 2:1-12. |
| apostasy / rebellion | ἀποστασία | apostasia | odpadnutí | NEW | Critical | The Man of Lawlessness | Established but unfamiliar Bible-tradition term; no competing secular sense, but no pre-existing content either — must be built from scratch as an organized, end-times rebellion against God, not private doubt. |
| man of lawlessness | ὁ ἄνθρωπος τῆς ἀνομίας | ho anthrōpos tēs anomias | člověk nepravosti | NEW | Critical | The Man of Lawlessness | The curriculum’s central adversary figure. Requires the heaviest doctrinal scaffolding in the letter — a specific eschatological figure, not a generic villain. Mandatory theologian review every occurrence. |
| lawlessness | ἀνομία | anomia | nepravost | NEW | High | The Man of Lawlessness | Distinguish from “hřích” (sin, already High risk in Romans baseline for its colloquial “shame/pity” drift); “nepravost” emphasizes willful, organized rebellion against God’s order, not individual failure. |
| the lawless one | ὁ ἄνομος | ho anomos | ten nezákonný (anchored back to “člověk nepravosti”) | NEW | Critical | The Man of Lawlessness | Must be visibly linked back to 2:3’s title via translator cross-reference note; Czech has no single fixed idiom paralleling the Greek’s substantive adjective. |
| son of destruction | ὁ υἱὸς τῆς ἀπωλείας | ho huios tēs apōleias | syn zatracení | NEW | Critical | The Man of Lawlessness / God’s Righteous Judgment | Archaic-register idiom parallel to (but doctrinally opposite of) “Syn Boží”; requires plain-language gloss on first use. |
| object of worship | σέβασμα | sebasma | předmět uctívání | NEW | Medium | The Man of Lawlessness (2:4) | Descriptive phrase, not fixed vocabulary; needs brief gloss. |
| temple of God | ναὸς τοῦ θεοῦ | naos tou theou | chrám Boží | NEW | High | The Man of Lawlessness (2:4) | Collision with Czech’s heritage-tourism association for “chrám” (parallel to baseline’s “kostel” caution); preserve interpretive openness on the literal-vs-church referent debate. |
| the restrainer (what/who restrains) | τὸ κατέχον / ὁ κατέχων | to katechon / ho katechōn | to, co zadržuje / ten, kdo zadržuje | NEW | Critical | The Man of Lawlessness | The letter’s most exegetically disputed phrase. Preserve the neuter/masculine grammatical shift exactly; do NOT resolve or harmonize the ambiguity in translation. Mandatory theologian review. |
| mystery (of lawlessness) | μυστήριον (τῆς ἀνομίας) | mystērion (tēs anomias) | tajemství (nepravosti) | NEW | High | The Man of Lawlessness (2:7) | Distinguish from occult/esoteric “secret” associations and from an unsolvable riddle; this is a specific, God-disclosed reality already secretly operative. |
| appearing / manifestation (of his coming) | ἐπιφάνεια τῆς παρουσίας | epiphaneia tēs parousias | zjevení jeho příchodu | NEW | High | The Day of the Lord (2:8) | NOTE: “zjevení” also renders ἀποκάλυψις (1:7) — track which Greek term underlies “zjevení” at each occurrence via translator note; this convergence is a structural feature of Czech vocabulary, not a translation error. |
| revelation | ἀποκάλυψις | apokalypsis | zjevení | NEW | High | The Day of the Lord (1:7) | See cross-reference note above (ἐπιφάνεια, 2:8). |
| working / activity (power) | ἐνέργεια | energeia | působení | NEW | High | God’s Righteous Judgment / The Man of Lawlessness | Must not be rendered “energie” (physics/vitality sense); this is personal, agentive operative power, whether Satan’s (2:9) or God’s judicial working (2:11). |
| Satan | Σατανᾶς | Satanas | satan | NEW | Medium | The Man of Lawlessness (2:9) | Risk is being read as a literary/horror-genre trope rather than a real personal adversary, given general secularism; brief accompanying explanation advised. |
| lying signs and wonders | σημεῖα καὶ τέρατα ψεύδους | sēmeia kai terata pseudous | lživá znamení a divy | NEW | High | The Man of Lawlessness (2:9) | The qualifying “lživá” (lying/false) must never be dropped, or the phrase reads as authentic supernatural power. |
| love of the truth | ἀγάπη τῆς ἀληθείας | agapē tēs alētheias | láska k pravdě | NEW | High | God’s Righteous Judgment (2:10) | Establishes the truth/lie thematic pairing running through 2:9-12; keep lexically consistent across occurrences. |
| truth | ἀλήθεια | alētheia | pravda | NEW | High | Standing Firm in the Traditions / God’s Righteous Judgment (2:10, 13) | Standard vocabulary; theological weight (gospel truth vs. deception) must be actively taught in context. |
| strong delusion (working of delusion) | ἐνέργειαν πλάνης | energeian planēs | mocné působení bludu | NEW | Critical | God’s Righteous Judgment | ”Blud” doubles as the Czech clinical/psychiatric term for a delusion — a distinctive Czech-specific collision risk. Must be explicitly framed as God’s deliberate, righteous, judicial act, never as a description of mental illness or as removing personal culpability. Mandatory theologian review. |
| the lie | ψεῦδος | pseudos | lež | NEW | Medium | God’s Righteous Judgment (2:11) | Standard, transparent term; part of the truth/lie thematic pairing. |
| be condemned / judged | κριθῶσιν (< κρίνω) | krithōsin | byli odsouzeni | NEW | High | God’s Righteous Judgment | Forensic-condemnatory sense required, not neutral “assessed.” |
| took pleasure in unrighteousness | εὐδοκήσαντες τῇ ἀδικίᾳ | eudokēsantes tē adikia | s potěšením se oddávali nespravedlnosti | NEW | High | God’s Righteous Judgment (2:12) | Preserves willing moral culpability alongside 2:11’s judicial hardening — pastorally essential balance. |
| perseverance / endurance | ὑπομονή | hypomonē | vytrvalost | NEW | High | Perseverance under Persecution | Ordinary Czech secular virtue-word (athletic/academic persistence) with no inherent connection to suffering for Christ; the specifically theological sense must be actively built up. |
| affliction / tribulation | θλῖψις | thlipsis | soužení | NEW | Medium | Perseverance under Persecution (1:4, 6) | Established Bible-tradition word; mild archaic flavor but no problematic secular competitor. |
| persecution | διωγμός | diōgmos | pronásledování | NEW | Medium | Perseverance under Persecution (1:4) | Standard, transparent; note historical distance for a modern Czech reader. |
| worthy (counted worthy) | καταξιωθῆναι | kataxiōthēnai | hodni | NEW | Medium | Perseverance under Persecution / God’s Righteous Judgment (1:5) | Must not be read as self-earned merit; a granted, not achieved, status. |
| righteous judgment | δικαία κρίσις | dikaia krisis | spravedlivý soud | NEW | Critical | God’s Righteous Judgment | ”Soud” collides with the ordinary Czech senses “law court” and “opinion” (“podle mého soudu”), a risk structurally identical to the Romans baseline’s “ospravedlnění”/“spravedlnost” caution. Must be taught as God’s own final, authoritative verdict. |
| repay | ἀνταποδοῦναι | antapodounai | odplatit | NEW | Medium | God’s Righteous Judgment (1:6) | Ensure divine, not human-vengeance, framing. |
| vengeance / retribution | ἐκδίκησις | ekdikēsis | trest | NEW | High | God’s Righteous Judgment (1:8) | Righteous, judicial retribution flowing from God’s character, not impersonal payback or human revenge. |
| eternal destruction | ὄλεθρος αἰώνιος | olethros aiōnios | věčná záhuba | NEW | Critical | God’s Righteous Judgment | Finality and permanence must not be softened; introduce narratively and pastorally, parallel in weight to “spasení” in the Romans baseline. |
| chose (for salvation) | εἵλατο (< αἱρέομαι) | heilato | vyvolil | NEW (linked to REUSED “vyvolení”) | Critical | Perseverance under Persecution / Standing Firm (2:13) | Apply identical caution to Romans TM’s “vyvolení”: distinguish from competitive-selection secular sense. |
| firstfruits | ἀπαρχή | aparchē | prvotiny | NEW | Medium | Standing Firm in the Traditions (2:13) | Requires OT sacrificial-offering background explanation. |
| comfort / encouragement | παράκλησις | paraklēsis | útěcha / potěšení | NEW | Medium | Standing Firm in the Traditions (2:16) | Standard vocabulary; low ambiguity. |
| hope | ἐλπίς | elpis | naděje | NEW | Medium | Standing Firm in the Traditions (2:16) | Ordinary Czech “naděje” is weaker/more uncertain than the NT’s grounded, confident-expectation sense; needs clarification. |
| establish / strengthen | στηρίζω | stērizō | utvrdit / upevnit | NEW | Medium | Standing Firm in the Traditions / Perseverance under Persecution (2:17; 3:3) | Standard vocabulary. |
| stand firm | στήκετε (< στήκω) | stēkete | stůjte pevně | NEW | High | Standing Firm in the Traditions | Active, resolute steadfastness, not passive immobility. |
| hold fast | κρατεῖτε (< κρατέω) | krateite | držte se | NEW | High | Standing Firm in the Traditions (2:15) | Paired with στήκετε; standard vocabulary. |
| traditions | παράδοσις / παραδόσεις | paradosis / paradoseis | tradice | NEW | Critical | Standing Firm in the Traditions | Single highest-risk term in the letter. Ordinary Czech “tradice” overwhelmingly means folk custom/cultural heritage (Christmas, Easter customs), a purely cultural-continuity idea with no inherent binding authority — the direct structural parallel to the Romans baseline’s “smlouva” (covenant vs. contract) and “povolání” (calling vs. job) risks. Every occurrence requires explicit teaching that this denotes Paul’s own authoritative apostolic instruction, not optional custom. Mandatory human theologian review every occurrence. |
| word of the Lord | λόγος τοῦ κυρίου | logos tou kyriou | slovo Páně | NEW | High | Standing Firm in the Traditions (3:1) | Reuses “Pán” (Critical, REUSED); standard phrase otherwise. |
| faithful (of God/the Lord) | πιστός | pistos | věrný | NEW | Medium | Perseverance under Persecution (3:3) | Distinguish clearly from πίστις/víra (human faith); this is God’s own unwavering reliability. |
| the evil one | ὁ πονηρός | ho ponēros | ten zlý | NEW | Medium | The Man of Lawlessness / Perseverance under Persecution (3:3) | Preserve the Greek’s own ambiguity between a personal (Satan) and generic-evil reading; do not resolve it. |
| walking disorderly / idly | περιπατοῦντος ἀτάκτως | peripatountos ataktōs | žít nepořádně / povalovat se | NEW | Medium | Standing Firm in the Traditions (3:6, 11) | Root metaphor is military “breaking rank” — a departure from the received apostolic pattern (paradosis), not merely a personality trait. |
| busybodies | περιεργαζομένους | periergazomenous | všeteční | NEW | Low | Standing Firm in the Traditions (3:11) | Standard, mildly colloquial; low doctrinal risk. |
| quietness (work with) | ἡσυχία | hēsychia | klid / tichost | NEW | Medium | Standing Firm in the Traditions (3:12) | Keep distinct from REUSED “pokoj” (peace with God); this is behavioral orderliness, not covenantal peace. |
| admonish | νουθετεῖτε (< νουθετέω) | noutheteite | napomínejte | NEW | Medium | Standing Firm in the Traditions (3:15) | Distinguish from REUSED “povzbuzovat” (encourage); this carries a corrective, warning nuance appropriate to church discipline. |
| Lord of peace | ὁ κύριος τῆς εἰρήνης | ho kyrios tēs eirēnēs | Pán pokoje | NEW (combination of two REUSED terms) | High | Standing Firm in the Traditions (3:16) | No new risk beyond the two component REUSED terms (Pán, pokoj). |
Risk Summary for 2 Thessalonians-Specific New Terms
| Risk Tier | Count | Terms |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | 10 | příchod; den Páně; odpadnutí; člověk nepravosti; ten nezákonný; syn zatracení; to, co zadržuje / ten, kdo zadržuje; spravedlivý soud; věčná záhuba; mocné působení bludu; tradice (11 listed — “traditions” and “vyvolil” both cross-link to Critical-tier concerns; see note below) |
| High | 15 | ἐνέστηκεν/již nastal; ἀνομία/nepravost; ναὸς τοῦ θεοῦ/chrám Boží; μυστήριον/tajemství; ἐπιφάνεια/zjevení jeho příchodu; ἀποκάλυψις/zjevení; ἐνέργεια/působení; σημεῖα καὶ τέρατα ψεύδους/lživá znamení a divy; ἀγάπη τῆς ἀληθείας/láska k pravdě; ἀλήθεια/pravda; κριθῶσιν/byli odsouzeni; εὐδοκήσαντες τῇ ἀδικίᾳ/s potěšením se oddávali nespravedlnosti; ὑπομονή/vytrvalost; ἐκδίκησις/trest; στήκετε/stůjte pevně; κρατεῖτε/držte se; λόγος τοῦ κυρίου/slovo Páně; ὁ κύριος τῆς εἰρήνης/Pán pokoje |
| Medium | 18 | ἐπισυναγωγή; σέβασμα; Σατανᾶς; ψεῦδος; θλῖψις; διωγμός; καταξιωθῆναι; ἀνταποδοῦναι; ἀπαρχή; παράκλησις; ἐλπίς; στηρίζω; πιστός; ὁ πονηρός; περιπατοῦντος ἀτάκτως; ἡσυχία; νουθετεῖτε; ἐνδοξασθῆναι |
| Low | 3 | μιμεῖσθαι; περιεργαζομένους; κατευθύναι |
Note: “Χριστός/Kristus” (Low) and all REUSED Romans-baseline terms (Pán, Bůh, Ježíš, evangelium, milost, pokoj, víra, církev, svatý/svatí, posvěcení, království Boží, povolání/povolaný, vyvolení, sláva, Duch svatý) are not double-counted in this summary; they retain their original Romans risk tiers unchanged and should be merged with this list only at the doctrine-risk-registry consolidation step (Phase 1 Step 2).
Priority flag for Phase 1 Step 2 (doctrine risk registry): the terms příchod (Day of the Lord), člověk nepravosti (Man of Lawlessness), to, co zadržuje / ten, kdo zadržuje (the restrainer), spravedlivý soud (righteous judgment), mocné působení bludu (working of delusion), and tradice (traditions) require dedicated doctrine entries paralleling the structure of the Romans baseline’s doctrine_risk_registry.json, given their status as this curriculum’s five named doctrines’ primary lexical anchors.
Critical Risk Terms
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: Duch svatý
Transliteration: pneuma hagion
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God
[INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, unmodified.] Personal third Person of the Trinity; basic Trinitarian framework cannot be assumed. Underlies ‘sanctification of the Spirit’ at 2:13.
Lord
Approved rendering: Pán
Transliteration: kyrios
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: pán s malým ‘p’ ve smyslu běžného zdvořilostního oslovení (‘pane’)
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology
[INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, unmodified.] Capitalization alone is a fragile signal separating divine lordship from the everyday honorific ‘pane.’ Used with especially high frequency in this letter (1:1-2, 1:7-8, 2:1, 2:8, 3:16); must be actively taught at every occurrence, never assumed from capitalization alone. Never soften per any Jehovah’s Witness-influenced relativizing of Christ’s lordship (see translation landscape survey).
God
Approved rendering: Bůh
Transliteration: theos
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: θεός
Category: God
[INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, unmodified.] Standard and unambiguous, though ‘proboha’ functions as a common secular exclamation; watch register in formal material throughout this book.
Jesus
Approved rendering: Ježíš
Transliteration: Iēsous
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology
[INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, unmodified.] Watch register: avoid any echo of the colloquial exclamatory ‘Ježíšmarjá’ in formal teaching material derived from this letter.
Parousia
Approved rendering: příchod
Transliteration: parousia
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Rejected alternatives: přítomnost (FORBIDDEN: echoes Jehovah’s Witnesses’ documented invisible-presence doctrine of Christ’s parousia beginning in 1914), parusie (transliteration; too opaque for a general secular readership, worsens rather than solves the comprehension gap)
Original: παρουσία
Category: Eschatology
CRITICAL: ordinary Czech ‘příchod’ means nothing more than a routine arrival (a train, spring’s arrival) and carries zero inherited apocalyptic weight — the inverse risk from cultures with an over-charged folk end-times framework. Must be paired every doctrinal occurrence with explicit narrative teaching: Christ’s future, visible, bodily, climactic return and gathering of his people. Occurs at 2:1, 2:8 (in ‘ἐπιφάνεια τῆς παρουσίας’), 2:9. Mandatory theologian review on first use in every document.
Day Of The Lord
Approved rendering: den Páně
Transliteration: hēmera tou kyriou
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Rejected alternatives: konec světa (imports disaster-film connotations Paul is specifically trying to calm), soudný den (pop-culture Judgment Day associations largely borrowed from English-language film titles)
Original: ἡμέρα τοῦ κυρίου
Category: Eschatology
CRITICAL: established Bible kralická/ČEP phrase with no competing secular meaning but also no pre-existing content for a secular reader; must be taught narratively (a specific, climactic, future day of Christ’s return and judgment), not merely named, exactly as ‘spasení’ is treated in the Romans baseline. Occurs at 2:2. Must never be confused with ‘neděle’ (Sunday).
Apostasy
Approved rendering: odpadnutí
Transliteration: apostasia
Doctrine: The End-Times Rebellion (Apostasy)
Rejected alternatives: odpadnutí bez upřesnění rozsahu (risks being read as one individual’s private loss of faith rather than a corporate, historically climactic event)
Original: ἀποστασία
Category: Eschatology
CRITICAL: established Bible-tradition term with no competing secular meaning, but also no pre-existing conceptual content for a secular reader — structurally identical to the Romans baseline’s caution on ‘vtělení.’ Occurs at 2:3. Always modify with ‘velké’ or an explanatory clause to signal scale and eschatological placement.
Man Of Lawlessness
Approved rendering: člověk nepravosti
Transliteration: ho anthrōpos tēs anomias
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Rejected alternatives: člověk hřícha (BKR/NBK textual-variant tradition following ἁμαρτίας rather than the modern-critical-text ἀνομίας; also risks colliding with ‘hřích’s’ colloquial ‘shame/pity’ drift already flagged Critical in the Romans baseline), antikrist (imports horror-genre and conspiracy-theory pop-culture associations foreign to Paul’s own restrained vocabulary; reserved for a bounded explanatory footnote only, never the primary rendering)
Original: ὁ ἄνθρωπος τῆς ἀνομίας
Category: Eschatology
CRITICAL: this curriculum’s central adversary figure. Occurs at 2:3, restated as ‘ten nezákonný’ (ὁ ἄνομος) at 2:8. Requires explanatory apparatus connecting it to Daniel’s end-times adversary imagery every occurrence. Mandatory human theologian review.
Lawless One
Approved rendering: ten nezákonný
Transliteration: ho anomos
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Rejected alternatives: an unrelated new coined title (would sever the necessary textual link back to ‘člověk nepravosti’ in 2:3 and cause readers to perceive two distinct figures)
Original: ὁ ἄνομος
Category: Eschatology
CRITICAL: restated title for the man of lawlessness at 2:8, his climactic unveiling and destruction. Must be visibly cross-referenced to 2:3’s ‘člověk nepravosti’ by translator note every occurrence.
Son Of Destruction
Approved rendering: syn zatracení
Transliteration: ho huios tēs apōleias
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Rejected alternatives: syn ztráty (too weak; loses the doctrinal weight of certain final judgment), any softened rendering implying mere moral failure rather than certain, final divine destruction
Original: ὁ υἱὸς τῆς ἀπωλείας
Category: Eschatology
CRITICAL: echoes the structure of ‘Syn Boží’ (Critical in the Romans baseline) in ironic reversal. Occurs at 2:3. The archaic register of ‘zatracení’ requires a plain-language gloss on first use.
Restrainer
Approved rendering: to, co zadržuje / ten, kdo zadržuje
Transliteration: to katechon / ho katechōn
Doctrine: The Restrainer
Rejected alternatives: a single harmonized gendered rendering across both verses (would resolve an ambiguity the Greek text itself deliberately preserves), a confident identification with a specific institution or figure (Holy Spirit, Roman state, etc.) inserted directly into the translation
Original: τὸ κατέχον / ὁ κατέχων
Category: Eschatology
CRITICAL: one of the most exegetically disputed phrases in the New Testament. Preserve the grammatical shift exactly — neuter ‘what restrains’ (2:6) to masculine ‘who restrains’ (2:7) — resisting harmonization. Translator over-clarification here would itself constitute doctrinal distortion. Mandatory theologian review.
Strong Delusion
Approved rendering: mocné působení bludu
Transliteration: energeian planēs
Doctrine: The Strong Delusion
Rejected alternatives: blud bez doplňující vazby (collides directly with the standard Czech clinical/psychiatric term for a delusion symptomatic of mental illness), any rendering suggesting God is merely passive, or that removes the personal culpability restored in 2:12
Original: ἐνέργειαν πλάνης
Category: Eschatology
CRITICAL, Czech-specific collision absent from the Romans baseline: ‘blud’ is simultaneously an established weighty theological term for heresy and the standard clinical psychiatric term for a delusion. Occurs at 2:11. Must be accompanied by explicit note: God’s deliberate, righteous, judicial act, never a description of mental illness. Mandatory theologian review.
Righteous Judgment
Approved rendering: spravedlivý soud
Transliteration: dikaia krisis
Doctrine: God’s Righteous Judgment
Rejected alternatives: soud bez upřesnění (collides with the ordinary Czech senses ‘law court’ and colloquial ‘opinion,’ e.g. ‘podle mého soudu’)
Original: δικαία κρίσις
Category: Judgment
CRITICAL: dual secular-drift risk structurally identical to the Romans baseline’s caution on ‘spravedlnost’/‘ospravedlnění.’ Occurs at 1:5-6. Must always be used as the fixed compound; never bare ‘soud.’ Must be taught as God’s own final, authoritative, courtroom-style verdict.
Eternal Destruction
Approved rendering: věčná záhuba
Transliteration: olethros aiōnios
Doctrine: God’s Righteous Judgment
Rejected alternatives: zánik (annihilationist-leaning, softens permanence), any temporally-limited framing of ‘věčný’
Original: ὄλεθρος αἰώνιος
Category: Judgment
CRITICAL: must be rendered with unambiguous finality and permanence. Occurs at 1:9. Introduce narratively and pastorally, parallel in weight to the Romans baseline’s caution on ‘spasení.‘
Chose For Salvation
Approved rendering: vyvolil
Transliteration: heilato
Doctrine: Divine Calling and Election to Salvation
Rejected alternatives: vyvolil read through the competitive-selection secular sense of ‘vyvolení’ (a job interview, a sports tryout)
Original: εἵλατο (< αἱρέομαι)
Category: Salvation
CRITICAL: directly linked to the Romans baseline’s Critical-tier ‘vyvolení’ entry; apply the identical caution. Occurs at 2:13, in a passage that compounds three of the Romans baseline’s own highest-risk terms (‘vyvolil,’ ‘povolání,’ ‘spasení’) in a single verse pair (2:13-14).
Traditions
Approved rendering: tradice
Transliteration: paradosis / paradoseis
Doctrine: Standing Firm in the Traditions
Rejected alternatives: učení (the historic BKR/Czech-Protestant-polemic avoidance rendering; understates Paul’s own ‘received/transmitted, whether by word or by letter’ sense of 2:15), nauka (too academic/abstract; loses the transmission emphasis), tradice left unqualified (defaults to the folk-custom/cultural-heritage reading — the near-exact inversion of Paul’s meaning)
Original: παράδοσις / παραδόσεις
Category: Traditions
CRITICAL, the single highest lexical risk in this curriculum. Ordinary modern Czech ‘tradice’ overwhelmingly means folk custom/cultural heritage (Christmas, Easter/pomlázka customs). Occurs at 2:15 and 3:6. Every occurrence requires the standing disambiguating formula ‘tradice ve smyslu apoštolského učení, které má závaznou autoritu, nikoli zvyk nebo obyčej,’ plus a neutrality note on the historic Protestant/Catholic Sacred-Tradition-authority debate (do not silently side with either). Mandatory human theologian review, every occurrence.
High Risk Terms
Gospel
Approved rendering: evangelium
Transliteration: euangelion
Doctrine: Gospel
Original: εὐαγγέλιον
Category: Salvation
[INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — czech_term, doctrine_risk, and alternatives_rejected reused exactly, unmodified.] Established term, but cannot be assumed to carry inherited meaning for most readers given the Czech Republic’s very low religious practice; must be actively defined at first use. In 2 Thessalonians occurs at 1:8 (judgment falls on those who do not obey the gospel); the term’s weight must not be flattened there.
Grace
Approved rendering: milost
Transliteration: charis
Doctrine: Grace
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
[INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, unmodified.] Still used in ordinary Czech for judicial mercy/clemency; needs explicit unpacking as unmerited divine favor. Occurs in 2 Thessalonians at 1:2, 1:12, 2:16, and the closing benediction 3:18; apply the identical caution at every occurrence.
Faith
Approved rendering: víra
Transliteration: pistis
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: víra v obecném slova smyslu (např. ‘víra v sebe sama’)
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith
[INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, unmodified.] Personal trust in Christ; object of faith must be specified explicitly every time. Occurs at 1:3 (faith growing abundantly under persecution), 1:4, 1:11.
Holy
Approved rendering: svatý
Transliteration: hagios
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: ἅγιος
Category: Sanctification
[INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, unmodified.] Set apart for God; morally pure. In 2 Thessalonians underlies both ‘svatí’ (saints, 1:10) and ‘posvěcení’ (sanctification, 2:13); does not occur as a bare adjective elsewhere in this book.
Saints
Approved rendering: svatí
Transliteration: hagioi
Doctrine: Sainthood
Rejected alternatives: svatí výhradně jako historické, kanonizované osobnosti vzdálené od běžného čtenáře
Original: ἅγιοι
Category: Church
[INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, unmodified.] Corporate designation for all believers, not an ascetic elite. Occurs at 1:10: Christ ‘glorified in his saints’ — the corporate body of ordinary Thessalonian believers, not calendar-associated historical figures. Always accompany with a translator note per the Romans baseline requirement.
Sanctification
Approved rendering: posvěcení
Transliteration: hagiasmos
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: posvěcení výhradně jako rituální/symbolický akt (např. ‘posvěcení kostela’)
Original: ἁγιασμός
Category: Sanctification
[INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, unmodified.] The Spirit’s ongoing transformative work, distinct from the ceremonial building-blessing sense dominant in ordinary Czech. Occurs at 2:13: salvation comes ‘through sanctification of the Spirit.‘
Calling
Approved rendering: povolání
Transliteration: klēsis
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Rejected alternatives: povolání výhradně ve smyslu civilního zaměstnání či profese
Original: κλῆσις
Category: Salvation
[INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, unmodified.] In ordinary Czech overwhelmingly means one’s job or profession; God’s sovereign summons must be actively distinguished. Occurs at 1:11: Paul prays God will fulfill his calling of the Thessalonians.
Already Come
Approved rendering: již nastal
Transliteration: enestēken
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Rejected alternatives: brzy nastane / je blízko (collapses completed-action force into mere imminence, destroying Paul’s argument in 2:3-4)
Original: ἐνέστηκεν
Category: Eschatology
Perfect-tense verb: the Day of the Lord has already arrived, not merely imminent. Precision is doctrinally load-bearing at 2:2: Paul’s entire correction depends on this distinction. Flag every occurrence for theologian review.
Lawlessness
Approved rendering: nepravost
Transliteration: anomia
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Rejected alternatives: hřích (already flagged High risk in the Romans baseline for its colloquial ‘shame/pity’ drift; would collapse organized end-times rebellion into ordinary personal sin)
Original: ἀνομία
Category: Eschatology
Willful, organized rebellion against God’s moral order, distinct from ordinary individual moral failure. Occurs at 2:3, 2:7 (‘mystery of lawlessness’), underlies ‘ten nezákonný’ at 2:8.
Temple Of God
Approved rendering: chrám Boží
Transliteration: naos tou theou
Doctrine: Blasphemous Self-Exaltation in God’s Temple
Rejected alternatives: kostel Boží (building-specific term inappropriate for naos), any rendering that resolves the literal-future-temple-vs-church interpretive debate
Original: ναὸς τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Church
‘Chrám’ is architecturally and touristically prominent in Czech culture, paralleling the Romans baseline’s ‘kostel’ caution. Occurs at 2:4. Must preserve interpretive openness on the referent while teaching the underlying blasphemy of self-enthronement in God’s sanctuary.
Mystery Of Lawlessness
Approved rendering: tajemství nepravosti
Transliteration: to mystērion tēs anomias
Doctrine: The Mystery of Lawlessness Already at Work
Rejected alternatives: mystérion (transliteration; would sound occult/esoteric in Czech, worse than the existing risk), tajemství bez upřesnění (risks a detective-novel or unsolvable-riddle reading)
Original: τὸ μυστήριον τῆς ἀνομίας
Category: Eschatology
The lawless principle already secretly at work, awaiting the restrainer’s removal for full public manifestation. Occurs at 2:7. Must be distinguished from occult/esoteric ‘secret knowledge’ associations readily available in secular Czech usage.
Appearing Of His Coming
Approved rendering: zjevení jeho příchodu
Transliteration: epiphaneia tēs parousias autou
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: ἐπιφάνεια τῆς παρουσίας αὐτοῦ
Category: Eschatology
Occurs at 2:8. Czech ‘zjevení’ also renders ἀποκάλυψις (1:7), a convergence forced by Czech’s more limited vocabulary for ‘visible disclosure’ relative to Greek’s overlapping terms. Flag in translator notes each occurrence to track which underlying Greek term is in view.
Revelation
Approved rendering: zjevení
Transliteration: apokalypsis
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: ἀποκάλυψις
Category: Eschatology
Occurs at 1:7: Christ’s future public unveiling with his mighty angels. Same Czech word as used for ἐπιφάνεια (2:8) and as the title ‘Zjevení Janovo’ (Revelation); track which Greek term underlies ‘zjevení’ at each occurrence.
Working Of Satan
Approved rendering: působení
Transliteration: energeia
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Rejected alternatives: energie (FORBIDDEN as primary rendering: physics/wellness false friend that depersonalizes agentive spiritual power, whether Satan’s at 2:9 or God’s own judicial working at 2:11)
Original: ἐνέργεια
Category: Eschatology
Active, operative, personal power — Satan’s derivative power behind the man of lawlessness (2:9); also God’s own judicial working (2:11). ‘Působení’ preserves the sense of an agent actively at work; never use the cognate ‘energie.‘
Lying Signs And Wonders
Approved rendering: lživá znamení a divy
Transliteration: sēmeia kai terata pseudous
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Rejected alternatives: znamení a divy bez kvalifikátoru ‘lživá’ (would read as authentic supernatural power, undermining the passage’s point)
Original: σημεῖα καὶ τέρατα ψεύδους
Category: Eschatology
Occurs at 2:9. Satan-empowered counterfeit miracles, deceptively similar in form to true divine signs but false in substance. The qualifier ‘lživá’ must never be dropped.
Love Of The Truth
Approved rendering: láska k pravdě
Transliteration: hē agapē tēs alētheias
Doctrine: Love of the Truth versus the Lie
Original: ἡ ἀγάπη τῆς ἀληθείας
Category: Faith
Occurs at 2:10. A settled, committed devotion to gospel truth, whose absence — not mere intellectual ignorance — leaves a person exposed to deception. Establishes the pravda/lež contrast running through 2:9-12; keep lexically consistent.
Truth
Approved rendering: pravda
Transliteration: alētheia
Doctrine: Love of the Truth versus the Lie
Original: ἀλήθεια
Category: Faith
Occurs at 2:10, 2:12, 2:13. Standard, transparent vocabulary; theological weight (gospel truth vs. deception) must be actively taught in context, not assumed self-evident.
Condemned
Approved rendering: byli odsouzeni
Transliteration: krithōsin
Doctrine: God’s Righteous Judgment
Rejected alternatives: posouzeni (neutral ‘assessed/evaluated,’ flattens forensic condemnation into a mere opinion)
Original: κριθῶσιν (< κρίνω)
Category: Eschatology
Occurs at 2:12. Must be rendered with the unambiguous forensic-condemnatory sense; check consistency with ‘spravedlivý soud’ elsewhere in this book.
Took Pleasure In Unrighteousness
Approved rendering: s potěšením se oddávali nespravedlnosti
Transliteration: eudokēsantes tē adikia
Doctrine: God’s Righteous Judgment
Original: εὐδοκήσαντες τῇ ἀδικίᾳ
Category: Eschatology
Occurs at 2:12. Restores and emphasizes willing moral culpability alongside 2:11’s judicial hardening — pastorally essential balance, so this clause is never omitted or softened.
Perseverance
Approved rendering: vytrvalost
Transliteration: hypomonē
Doctrine: Perseverance under Persecution
Rejected alternatives: trpělivost (patience; too weak/passive for the active endurance in view), vytrvalost left unanchored to its theological object (collapses into a secular athletic/academic achievement-virtue with no connection to suffering for Christ)
Original: ὑπομονή
Category: Perseverance
Occurs at 1:4 and (as ‘vytrvalost Kristova’) at 3:5. Ordinary Czech secular virtue-word; the theological sense — endurance sustained by God through hardship faced because of faith — must be actively built up, always paired with its theological object.
Vengeance
Approved rendering: trest
Transliteration: ekdikēsis
Doctrine: God’s Righteous Judgment
Rejected alternatives: literal coinage for ekdikēsis (obscure, less accessible than ‘trest’ for a general readership)
Original: ἐκδίκησις
Category: Judgment
Occurs at 1:8. Righteous, judicial retribution flowing from God’s own just character, not impersonal cosmic payback or human-style revenge.
Stand Firm
Approved rendering: stůjte pevně
Transliteration: stēkete
Doctrine: Standing Firm in the Traditions
Rejected alternatives: a passive/static rendering implying immobility rather than active, resolute steadfastness
Original: στήκετε (< στήκω)
Category: Traditions
Occurs at 2:15, the letter’s key imperative for this doctrine. Must convey engaged resistance, not passive endurance alone.
Hold Fast
Approved rendering: držte se
Transliteration: krateite
Doctrine: Standing Firm in the Traditions
Original: κρατεῖτε (< κρατέω)
Category: Traditions
Occurs at 2:15, paired with ‘stůjte pevně.’ Must be read together with ‘tradice’ to convey retention of authoritative teaching, not merely habitual practice.
Word Of The Lord
Approved rendering: slovo Páně
Transliteration: ho logos tou kyriou
Doctrine: The Word of the Lord Advancing
Original: ὁ λόγος τοῦ κυρίου
Category: God
Occurs at 3:1: Paul’s prayer request that the gospel message spread and be honored. Standard phrase built on the reused Critical-tier term ‘Pán’; low independent ambiguity beyond that underlying caution.
Lord Of Peace
Approved rendering: Pán pokoje
Transliteration: ho kyrios tēs eirēnēs
Doctrine: The Lordship of Christ
Original: ὁ κύριος τῆς εἰρήνης
Category: God
Occurs at 3:16, the closing benediction. Combination of two reused Romans-baseline terms (‘Pán,’ Critical; ‘pokoj,’ Medium); render consistently as a fixed benedictory unit.
Medium Risk Terms
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, unmodified.] Relational peace with God; distinguish from mere quiet or absence of disturbance. Occurs at 1:2 and in the closing title ‘Pán pokoje’ (3:16); must also be kept terminologically distinct within this book from the unrelated behavioral-orderliness term ‘klid/tichost’ (hēsychia, 3:12), which is NOT the same concept.
Church
Approved rendering: církev
Transliteration: ekklēsia
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Rejected alternatives: kostel (budova) namísto společenství věřících
Original: ἐκκλησία
Category: Church
[INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, unmodified.] Distinguish from ‘kostel’ (the building). Occurs at 1:1 (‘církvi Tesalonických’) and is presupposed at 1:4, 1:10; the addressees are a concrete local community, not an institution or heritage site.
Kingdom Of God
Approved rendering: království Boží
Transliteration: basileia tou theou
Doctrine: Kingdom Mission
Original: βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Kingdom
[INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE — reused exactly, unmodified.] Guard against fairy-tale-kingdom association given ‘království’s’ common use in Czech children’s stories and fantasy literature. Occurs at 1:5: present suffering as the means by which believers are counted worthy of this kingdom.
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, unmodified.] Also the ordinary Czech word for worldly fame; must be kept distinct. Central to 2 Thessalonians 1:9-10 and 1:12; underlies ‘oslaven’ (glorified, endoxasthēnai).
Gathering Together
Approved rendering: shromáždění
Transliteration: episynagōgē
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: ἐπισυναγωγή
Category: Eschatology
Rare NT word (cf. Hebrews 10:25); ordinary Czech ‘shromáždění’ reads as a mundane civic assembly. Occurs at 2:1: believers’ gathering to Christ at his return. Eschatological referent must be made explicit.
Object Of Worship
Approved rendering: předmět uctívání
Transliteration: sebasma
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Rejected alternatives: modla (too narrowly a physical carved idol), božstvo (too narrowly a deity-being)
Original: σέβασμα
Category: Eschatology
Descriptive phrase, not fixed Czech vocabulary; needs a brief gloss. Occurs at 2:4: the lawless one exalts himself above every object of worship, real or false.
Satan
Approved rendering: satan
Transliteration: Satanas
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Original: Σατανᾶς
Category: Eschatology
Established, stable Czech transliteration. Occurs at 2:9. Given general Czech secularism, the primary risk is being read as a literary/horror-genre trope rather than a real personal spiritual adversary; brief accompanying explanation advisable.
The Lie
Approved rendering: lež
Transliteration: to pseudos
Doctrine: The Strong Delusion
Original: τὸ ψεῦδος
Category: Eschatology
Occurs at 2:11. Standard, transparent term; part of the truth/lie thematic pairing running through 2:9-12.
Affliction
Approved rendering: soužení
Transliteration: thlipsis
Doctrine: Perseverance under Persecution
Original: θλῖψις
Category: Perseverance
Occurs at 1:4, 1:6. Established Bible-tradition word with mild literary/archaic flavor; no problematic competing secular sense.
Persecution
Approved rendering: pronásledování
Transliteration: diōgmos
Doctrine: Perseverance under Persecution
Original: διωγμός
Category: Perseverance
Occurs at 1:4. Standard, transparent term; note historical distance for a modern Czech reader, and where useful, bridge to 20th-century Czech church history (Nazi and Communist-era persecution) rather than assuming any lived contemporary experience.
Worthy
Approved rendering: hodni
Transliteration: kataxiōthēnai
Doctrine: The Kingdom of God and Present Suffering
Original: καταξιωθῆναι
Category: Judgment
Occurs at 1:5. Must not be read as earning worthiness by merit; a granted, not self-achieved, status, paralleling the Romans baseline’s caution on imputed righteousness.
Repay
Approved rendering: odplatit
Transliteration: antapodounai
Doctrine: God’s Righteous Judgment
Original: ἀνταποδοῦναι
Category: Judgment
Occurs at 1:6. Standard vocabulary; ensure this is read as divine repayment specifically, not an endorsement of human vengeance-taking.
Firstfruits
Approved rendering: prvotiny
Transliteration: aparchē
Doctrine: Divine Calling and Election to Salvation
Original: ἀπαρχή
Category: Salvation
Occurs at 2:13 (textually variant with ‘from the beginning’ in some manuscripts). OT sacrificial image; requires explicit Old Testament background explanation for a secular reader.
Comfort
Approved rendering: útěcha / potěšení
Transliteration: paraklēsis
Doctrine: Comfort and Hope
Original: παράκλησις
Category: Faith
Occurs at 2:16: God’s gift of ‘eternal comfort.’ Standard vocabulary; low ambiguity, though should be distinguished from mere emotional soothing — this is grounded, gospel-rooted comfort.
Hope
Approved rendering: naděje
Transliteration: elpis
Doctrine: Comfort and Hope
Original: ἐλπίς
Category: Faith
Occurs at 2:16 (‘good hope’). Ordinary Czech ‘naděje’ is weaker/more uncertain than the NT’s grounded, confident-expectation sense; needs brief clarification that biblical hope is settled certainty, not optimistic wishing.
Establish
Approved rendering: utvrdit / upevnit
Transliteration: stērizō
Doctrine: Standing Firm in the Traditions
Original: στηρίζω
Category: Perseverance
Occurs at 2:17 and again at 3:3. Standard vocabulary, thematically linked to both Standing Firm in the Traditions and Perseverance under Persecution.
Faithful
Approved rendering: věrný
Transliteration: pistos
Doctrine: The Faithfulness of God
Original: πιστός
Category: God
Occurs at 3:3: ‘The Lord is faithful.’ Must be clearly distinguished from πίστις/‘víra’ (the believer’s own faith); describes God’s own unwavering character.
The Evil One
Approved rendering: ten zlý
Transliteration: ho ponēros
Doctrine: Protection from the Evil One
Rejected alternatives: resolving the ambiguity toward either a purely personal (Satan) or purely abstract (evil in general) reading
Original: ὁ πονηρός
Category: Eschatology
Occurs at 3:3. Preserve the same ambiguity present in the Greek text; do not resolve it in either direction.
Walking Disorderly
Approved rendering: žít nepořádně
Transliteration: peripatountos ataktōs
Doctrine: Church Discipline and Disorderly Conduct
Original: περιπατοῦντος ἀτάκτως
Category: Traditions
Occurs at 3:6, 3:11. Root metaphor is military ‘breaking rank’; worth surfacing that this conduct is specifically a departure from the received apostolic tradition (paradosis), not merely a personality trait.
Quietness
Approved rendering: klid / tichost
Transliteration: hēsychia
Doctrine: Church Discipline and Disorderly Conduct
Rejected alternatives: pokoj (would conflate behavioral orderliness in daily work with covenantal peace with God, a distinct reused Romans-baseline term)
Original: ἡσυχία
Category: Traditions
Occurs at 3:12: the corrective instruction to work ‘with quietness.’ Keep terminologically distinct from ‘pokoj’ throughout this book.
Admonish
Approved rendering: napomínejte
Transliteration: noutheteite
Doctrine: Church Discipline and Disorderly Conduct
Rejected alternatives: povzbuzovat (the Romans-baseline ‘encourage’; lacks the corrective/warning nuance required at 3:15)
Original: νουθετεῖτε (< νουθετέω)
Category: Traditions
Occurs at 3:15. Discipline of the disorderly is to be corrective and relational (‘as a brother’), not punitive exclusion (‘as an enemy’).
Love
Approved rendering: láska
Transliteration: agapē
Doctrine: Perseverance under Persecution
Original: ἀγάπη
Category: Faith
Occurs at 1:3: mutual love increasing among believers under pressure. Ordinary Czech ‘láska’ retains general positive connotation, but its dominant everyday association is romantic love; the specifically Christian, sacrificial, others-directed sense still needs brief unpacking.
Glorified
Approved rendering: oslaven
Transliteration: endoxasthēnai
Doctrine: The Glory of Christ Displayed in Believers
Original: ἐνδοξασθῆναι
Category: God
Occurs at 1:10, 1:12. Related to the reused Romans-baseline term ‘sláva’; ensure it is not read through the secular sense of worldly fame or achievement.
Unwilling To Work
Approved rendering: kdo nechce pracovat, ať nejí
Transliteration: ei tis ou thelei ergazesthai, mēde esthietō
Doctrine: Church Discipline and Disorderly Conduct
Rejected alternatives: a rendering that omits the explicit pastoral-community framing note (risks unmitigated collision with the near-identical Czechoslovak communist-era coercive-labor slogan)
Occurs at 3:10. UNIQUE CZECH-SPECIFIC CULTURAL COLLISION: the nearly identical phrase ‘Kdo nepracuje, ať nejí’ functioned for over forty years as a well-known ideological slogan of the Czechoslovak communist regime, used to justify compulsory labor and stigmatize the unemployed. Requires a mandatory explicit framing note distinguishing Paul’s pastoral concern (correcting voluntary freeloading disorderliness within a church community) from the coercive, state-enforced labor ideology the phrase otherwise evokes. Native speaker review required; not a Critical doctrinal-content risk, but a mandatory cultural-framing flag.
Low Risk Terms
Christ
Approved rendering: Kristus
Transliteration: Christos
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Original: Χριστός
Category: Christology
NEW to this curriculum (not a discrete Romans-baseline TM entry, though implied throughout Romans). Established, stable Czech Bible-tradition form, consistently paired with or standing in place of ‘Ježíš’ throughout 2 Thessalonians (1:1, 1:2, 1:7, 1:8, 1:12, 2:1, 2:14, 2:16, 3:5, 3:18). Low secular-drift risk since ‘Kristus’ carries no competing everyday meaning in Czech.
Busybodies
Approved rendering: všeteční
Transliteration: periergazomenous
Doctrine: Church Discipline and Disorderly Conduct
Original: περιεργαζομένους
Category: Traditions
Occurs at 3:11. Standard, mildly colloquial Czech vocabulary; low doctrinal risk.
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