Passage
Romans 9
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Glossary Term
Abba
Aramaic term of intimacy preserved as 'Abba, Vader' in the Statenvertaling and all modern Dutch translations (Romans 8:15).
ROM.9.4
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Glossary Term
Adoption
Statenvertaling's classic phrase, more formal than modern 'adoptie' which now defaults to the legal child-adoption process.
ROM.9.4
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Doctrine
Adoption into God's Family
Full son-status with complete inheritance rights; the Statenvertaling phrase preserves this better than modern bare 'adoptie'.
ROM.9.4
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Glossary Term
Called
Context-sensitive: in 1:1 = called to apostleship; in 1:7 = called to be saints; in 8:28-30 = effectual calling to salvation.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Calling
'Roeping' is also the ordinary Dutch word for career/life calling ('onderwijzer is mijn roeping'), a homonym-flattening risk similar to German 'Berufung'.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Covenant
Dutch Reformed dogmatics has an unusually developed and technical covenant theology ('verbondsleer' — covenant of works, covenant of grace), more systematized here than in most other national traditions, making this term more doctrinally load-bearing than a simple relational-vs-contract note would suggest.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
David
Standard proper name form across all Dutch traditions.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Davidic Covenant
Dutch Reformed federal theology ('verbondsleer') is unusually developed and systematized compared to most national traditions, making covenant vocabulary here more doctrinally load-bearing than a simple relational-vs-contract note would suggest.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Deity of Christ
CRITICAL: co-equal divine nature must not be softened into a merely divinely inspired human figure.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Divine Calling
'Roeping' collides with the ordinary secular career-vocation sense, requiring context to keep the divine-initiative meaning clear.
ROM.9.11-12
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Doctrine
Effectual Calling
CRITICAL, the single most Dutch-specific doctrinal flashpoint in this registry: the Canons of Dort (1618-19) formulated the definitive Reformed position on unconditional election directly against the Dutch Remonstrants, making this doctrine unusually foundational to Dutch Reformed identity.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Election
CRITICAL, the most Dutch-specific doctrinal flashpoint in this glossary: the Canons of Dort (Dordtse Leerregels, Synod of Dordrecht 1618-19) formulated the definitive Reformed position on unconditional election directly against the Dutch Remonstrants (followers of the Dutch theologian Jacobus Arminius).
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Father
God as personal Father.
ROM.9.4
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Glossary Term
Glory
God's radiant presence and honor.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
God
The Netherlands is among the most secularized nations in Europe, with the religiously unaffiliated now the largest single group; 'God' is increasingly encountered as cultural-historical vocabulary rather than a live personal claim for many readers.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
Messiah
The Anointed One fulfilling OT promise.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Messianic Promise
The specific Jewish OT concept fulfilled exclusively in Jesus must not be flattened into a generic moral teacher, a real drift risk given widespread biblical illiteracy.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
Seed Of David
Statenvertaling's literal 'uit het zaad Davids' is now archaic; modern 'zaad' primarily denotes literal or clinical seed.
ROM.9.5