Linguistic Gap Analysis
Linguistic Gap Analysis — Revelation (Full Book)
English destination-language gap analysis, extending the Romans baseline Language Package
This document executes PRD Phase 1 Step 8 for the Revelation curriculum. It builds directly on analysis/08_core_glossary.md and assets/bible_term_registry.json (Revelation extension) without contradicting either, and without contradicting the baseline Romans translation_memory.json risk conventions. Its purpose is narrower and more diagnostic than the glossary: to name where the destination language itself (contemporary English) lacks adequate vocabulary, where it has too much competing vocabulary crowding a single semantic space, where a term should be transliterated rather than translated, and to rank this letter’s single highest-risk ambiguities for Phase 2 routing.
Per the hard rule of full-book coverage, Section 5 below confirms every chapter (1–22) has been reviewed, explicitly marking chapters that contribute no new gap beyond what is already logged.
Section 1 — Doctrine Vocabulary Matrix
For each of the nine curriculum doctrines: the available English terms, their specific weaknesses as vehicles for the doctrine, and the recommended handling strategy for Phase 2 content generation.
1.1 The Return and Reign of Christ
| Available English terms | Weaknesses | Recommended strategy |
|---|---|---|
| ”second coming,” “return,” “coming soon/quickly” (1:3,7; 22:7,12,20), Son of Man (1:13; 14:14), King of kings and Lord of lords (19:16), the Amen (3:14), Alpha and Omega (22:13) | (a) “Second coming” is itself not Revelation’s own vocabulary and can import assumptions (e.g. a single visible cinematic event) not argued for in the text itself; (b) “soon/quickly” collides with a 2,000-year-old reasonable lay objection; (c) “Son of Man” risks collapse into either bare humanity or a synonym for “Son of God,” losing its specific Danielic royal-judicial force; (d) “King of kings and Lord of lords” risks flattening into a generic honorific through commercial/entertainment reuse of the phrase | State plainly, on first substantive use, that “soon” bears at least three defensible readings (near-term imminence; qualitative suddenness; God’s differently-scaled relationship to time) and commit to one while naming the others (per baseline ambiguity-handling rule). Keep “Son of Man” and “Son of God” terminologically distinct even though both refer to the same Christ. Restore “King of kings and Lord of lords” with the same deliberate weight-restoration the baseline requires for “Lord” alone. |
1.2 The Sovereignty of God over History
| Available English terms | Weaknesses | Recommended strategy |
|---|---|---|
| Almighty (Pantokratōr), Alpha and Omega, “who is, who was, who is to come,” throne, providence (baseline concept, not a Revelation lexeme) | “Almighty” risks vague-superlative reading (“the almighty dollar”) rather than personal, purposive sovereignty; “throne” is now heavily coded by fantasy-genre contested-succession entertainment (a violent scramble among rivals for one prize) — nearly inverted from the settled, uncontested, eternal sovereignty the text depicts | Explicitly contrast “throne” in Revelation with contested-succession fantasy tropes: God’s throne is never contested as a plot device, only opposed by doomed rebellion. Tie “Almighty” back to the baseline’s “providence” entry (personal, purposive care, not impersonal fate) every time it appears in a teaching passage. |
1.3 Perseverance and Faithful Witness under Persecution
| Available English terms | Weaknesses | Recommended strategy |
|---|---|---|
| endurance/perseverance (hypomonē), witness/testimony (martyria/martys), overcome/conqueror (nikaō), repent (metanoeō), tribulation/great tribulation (thlipsis) | English has no single word combining “active resilience” with “specifically Christ-directed, faith-rooted” content; “perseverance” alone drifts toward secular self-help “grit” culture; “martyr” has narrowed almost entirely to “killed for a cause” plus a trivializing pop-psychology usage (“martyr complex”); “tribulation” is the single largest denominational fault-line term in this cluster (futurist seven-year period vs. ongoing historical suffering) | Always anchor “endurance/perseverance” and “overcome” to their stated means — “by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony” (12:11) — rather than leaving them as generic virtue words. Distinguish “witness” (the act/message) from “martyr” (one killed) explicitly, noting the book increasingly links but does not equate them. Flag “great tribulation” per the mandatory millennial-adjacent transparency rule (see Section 4). |
1.4 Judgment of the Wicked and Vindication of the Saints
| Available English terms | Weaknesses | Recommended strategy |
|---|---|---|
| Hades, second death, lake of fire, great white throne, book of life, beast, mark (of the beast), 666, Babylon, Armageddon, false prophet, the accuser, vice list terms (21:8) | This is the single most vocabulary-crowded doctrine in the book. English readers arrive with: (a) conflated Hades/Hell; (b) a fully secularized “Armageddon” (any catastrophe); (c) conspiracy-saturated “mark of the beast”; (d) an assumed-but-absent “Antichrist” vocabulary; (e) several genuine etymological false-friends within one verse (pornoi→“pornography,” pharmakoi→“pharmacy,” both semantic inversions) | Every Critical-tier term in this cluster requires the explicit clarification pattern the baseline mandates for “justification”/“election”: state the dominant wrong contemporary association first, then the text’s actual referent. Keep Hades and the lake of fire terminologically distinct throughout (the text itself distinguishes them, 20:14). Name explicitly that “Antichrist” never occurs in this book. |
1.5 The New Heaven and New Earth
| Available English terms | Weaknesses | Recommended strategy |
|---|---|---|
| new (kainos), new Jerusalem, tabernacle/dwell, covenant formula (“his people… their God”), freely/without cost (dōrean), tree of life, sea (symbolic) | English “new” cannot distinguish kainos (renewed in kind) from neos (new in sequence/time); “new Jerusalem” collides with a live, highly charged modern geopolitical proper name; “tree of life” is a widely secularized decorative/syncretistic motif (jewelry, film titles, Kabbalah, Yggdrasil) | State the kainos/neos distinction explicitly on first substantive use of “new” in ch.21; readers should be told this is renewal-in-continuity, not discard-and-replace. Disambiguate “new Jerusalem” from the modern nation-state/city on every substantive occurrence, per the same convention as baseline “Israel.” Trace “tree of life” back to Genesis 2-3 explicitly rather than assuming the connection is self-evident. |
1.6 The Church as Bride of Christ
| Available English terms | Weaknesses | Recommended strategy |
|---|---|---|
| bride (nymphē), marriage/wedding supper of the Lamb, the Spirit and the Bride say “Come” | Contemporary wedding-industry culture (heavily commercialized, individualistic “her big day” framing, romance-genre saturation) risks reducing a corporate, covenantal, OT-marriage-idiom image (Hosea, Ezekiel 16, Isaiah 62:5) to sentimental personal romance; English also has no ready single word for the corporate-yet-intimate register the image requires | Explicitly state the corporate referent (the whole redeemed people, not an individual romantic partner) every time “bride” appears in teaching material, and trace the OT marriage-covenant background rather than assuming the modern wedding frame transfers cleanly. |
1.7 Worship of the Lamb
| Available English terms | Weaknesses | Recommended strategy |
|---|---|---|
| worship (proskyneō), worthy (axios), Lamb (arnion), Hallelujah, glory | ”Worship” has drifted into loose secular hyperbole (“I worship the ground she walks on”); “worthy” is diluted by affirmation-culture marketing (“you are worthy,” self-esteem language); “Lamb” risks sentimentalizing into Easter-card cuteness, losing the conquering-sovereign paradox; “Hallelujah” is now a generic secular exclamation of relief | Leverage the text’s own corrective device — the refused-worship scenes (19:10; 22:8-9) — explicitly as a teaching tool distinguishing true worship from hyperbolic praise. Teach “Lamb” as BOTH slain sacrifice AND enthroned conqueror on every substantive occurrence, never one without the other. |
1.8 Symbolic and Apocalyptic Interpretation
| Available English terms | Weaknesses | Recommended strategy |
|---|---|---|
| revelation/apocalypse, sign/signify, mystery, do not add to/take away from | ”Apocalyptic” in contemporary English has nearly inverted its meaning (cataclysmic destruction vs. the actual sense of unveiling/disclosure); “mystery” is captured by detective-fiction/code-breaking secular framing, encouraging a puzzle-solving posture the text itself does not model; “sign/signify” (1:1) is the book’s own built-in hermeneutical instruction and is frequently lost in translation as flat “made known” | This entire doctrine functions as a meta-level gap: readers lack an accurate English frame for the genre itself before encountering any specific symbol. Teach the sign/signify instruction of 1:1 explicitly and early, establishing a reading posture (symbolic, not code-breaking or flat-literal) before any specific image (beast, dragon, numbers) is introduced. |
1.9 Assurance of God’s Final Victory over Evil
| Available English terms | Weaknesses | Recommended strategy |
|---|---|---|
| overcome/conqueror, blood of the Lamb, Satan/devil, dragon, the accuser, Armageddon | ”Overcome” risks self-help/motivational-branding drift (addiction-recovery language, “conqueror” merchandising) that relocates the victory’s source from Christ to the individual’s willpower; “dragon” is captured by fantasy-genre entertainment, in some cases with positive cultural valence (auspicious dragon symbolism in some cultural traditions), risking an inverted-value reading | State the victory’s stated means explicitly every time “overcome/conqueror” language appears in teaching material: “by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony” (12:11), never as an unaided personal-triumph narrative. |
Section 2 — Missing Vocabulary vs. Crowded Semantic Neighborhoods
2.1 Missing vocabulary (English has no distinct word; a single English word must silently do the work of two or more distinct Greek concepts)
| Gap | Greek distinction lost | Consequence if unaddressed | Recommended fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crown | stephanos (victor’s wreath, athletic/military award) vs. diadēma (royal crown/diadem, e.g. 12:3; 13:1; 19:12) | English “crown” collapses both into hereditary-monarchy imagery; readers miss that the promised crown of 2:10/3:11 is a competition reward for endurance, not a royal title | Gloss stephanos explicitly as “victor’s wreath” on its first occurrence (2:10) and note the distinction from diadēma when the latter appears on the beast/dragon (12:3;13:1) and on Christ (19:12) |
| New | kainos (new in kind/quality, renewed) vs. neos (new in time/sequence) | 21:1,5 risks being read as wholesale discard-and-replace of creation rather than qualitative renewal | Explicit kainos/neos contrast on first substantive use in ch. 21 (see 1.5 above) |
| Soon | tachy (suddenness/swiftness once it occurs) vs. a strict chronological “very little time will elapse” | Collapsing into only the chronological sense generates the “it’s been 2,000 years” objection without resolution | Present the qualitative-suddenness reading alongside near-term imminence as both defensible (see 1.1 above) |
| Antichrist (absence, not excess) | The term never occurs in Revelation at all, yet nearly every lay reader assumes it is this book’s vocabulary | Readers will search the text in vain, or worse, silently substitute their own assumed content for “the beast” | State plainly and early (first occurrence of “beast,” 13:1) that “Antichrist” is 1 John/2 John vocabulary, not this book’s |
| Rapture (absence, not excess) | Not a biblical word in any book (Latin rapio via 1 Thess 4:17), yet heavily assumed as this book’s vocabulary in popular futurist teaching around the “great tribulation” | Readers may search for “rapture” language in ch. 4-7 that is not actually present | Name the term’s non-biblical, Latin-derived origin explicitly when addressing “great tribulation” (see Section 4) |
| Martyrdom vs. witness | martyria/martys covers both “testimony borne” and, by extension in this book, “one killed for that testimony,” without a single clean English equivalent that holds both together without collapsing one into the other | English “witness” undersells the cost; English “martyr” oversells inevitability of death | Teach both senses together explicitly at first occurrence (1:5) rather than picking one English word and running with it throughout |
2.2 Crowded semantic neighborhoods (too many competing English associations attach to one term; requires active “fencing” — explicit exclusion of the wrong senses)
| Neighborhood | Competing occupants crowding the space | Fencing required |
|---|---|---|
| Judgment/final-state vocabulary (Hades, second death, lake of fire, great white throne) | Popular culture flattens all four into one generic “Hell”; “hot as Hades” idiom; “fire and brimstone preaching” caricature idiom | Fence each term separately: Hades = intermediate state (distinguish from Hell); lake of fire/second death = final state (state the curriculum’s own position on ontological nature, per baseline denominational-transparency rule, while noting the range of views) |
| Cosmic-evil vocabulary (Satan, devil, dragon, beast, false prophet, the accuser) | Cartoon-devil trivialization; horror-genre sensationalism; fantasy-genre dragon glamorization; conspiracy-theory literalism about the beast/mark | Fence with the text’s own self-identifications (12:9’s explicit dragon=serpent=devil=Satan chain) rather than importing outside genre content |
| Symbolic-city/place vocabulary (Babylon, new Jerusalem, Armageddon, Gog and Magog) | “Babylon” as Rastafarian/band-name usage; “new Jerusalem” colliding with live Middle East geopolitics; “Armageddon” as any catastrophe in headlines/film titles; “Gog and Magog” fringe-speculative modern-nation identification | Fence each with an explicit statement of the debated range of scholarly referents (see baseline’s ambiguity-handling rule) rather than asserting one reading as obvious |
| Worship/value vocabulary (worship, worthy, glory, Hallelujah) | Hyperbolic secular “worship,” affirmation-culture “worthy,” nostalgic/self-seeking “glory,” generic-relief “Hallelujah” | Fence using the text’s own corrective scenes (refused worship, 19:10;22:8-9) and its literal concrete usage of glory (21:11,23) as anchors |
| Victory/achievement vocabulary (overcome, conqueror, crown) | Self-help “overcomer” branding, addiction-recovery “conqueror” merchandising, monarchy-only “crown” associations | Fence with the stated means (blood of the Lamb, 12:11) and the athletic-wreath background (stephanos) |
| 21:8 vice-list vocabulary (sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, cowardly, unbelieving) | Etymological false-friends (pornoi→pornography, pharmakoi→pharmacy — an outright positive-connotation inversion); trivialized “idolatry” (celebrity/talent-show usage); schoolyard-insult “cowardly” | Fence each individually per bible_term_registry.json entries; the pharmakoi reversal is severe enough to warrant explicit callout in every occurrence, not just a first-use gloss |
Section 3 — Transliteration vs. Paraphrase Decisions
Because English is simultaneously the source and destination language in this pipeline, “transliteration” here means retaining a loanword or proper-noun form already established in the English Bible-translation tradition rather than replacing it with a descriptive paraphrase. The decision in each case turns on whether the established English form preserves or obscures the underlying sense.
| Term | Decision | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Hallelujah | Retain transliteration | Established, recognizable liturgical loanword; paraphrasing as “praise the Lord” loses the Hebrew-rooted, cross-canon resonance (and the Handel “Hallelujah Chorus” cultural asset); pair with explicit note that secular usage has drained it of direct address to God |
| Armageddon | Retain transliteration, with mandatory correction | The transliterated form is already the culturally dominant English word; the fix needed is not a different rendering but an explicit statement correcting the secularized “any catastrophe” sense back to the text’s debated, specific symbolic referent |
| Amen (as Christological title, 3:14) | Retain transliteration, with explicit re-flagging as a title | ”Amen” is already fully naturalized in English; the risk is not the word itself but readers’ failure to recognize it functioning here as a personal title for Christ rather than a closing liturgical formula — flag, do not paraphrase |
| Alpha and Omega | Retain transliteration (Greek letter names), not paraphrase as “A and Z” or “Beginning and End” alone | The Greek letter-names carry more weight in the English Bible tradition than a paraphrase would; pair with (not replace by) “the Beginning and the End” as an explanatory gloss rather than a substitute |
| Abba | Retain transliteration (baseline reuse) | Already governed by baseline; Revelation does not use this term directly but the “Father” title inherits the same pastoral handling |
| Hades | Retain transliteration, not paraphrase as “Hell” | Paraphrasing as “Hell” would erase the text’s own careful distinction between the intermediate state and the lake of fire (20:14); retaining “Hades” and explicitly defining it preserves the distinction a paraphrase would destroy |
| Messiah / Christ | Retain established dual forms (baseline reuse) | Already governed by baseline |
| Gog and Magog | Retain transliteration | No viable paraphrase exists for these proper names; the gap is background knowledge (Ezekiel 38-39), not translation choice — supply the background, do not attempt to rename the terms |
| 666 | Retain the number as-is; do not paraphrase into words | The gematria argument depends on the numeral itself; paraphrasing would destroy the very feature under discussion |
| Beast (thērion) | Paraphrase/gloss, not transliterate | No stable English transliteration tradition exists for this common noun; render as “beast” (already the established English Bible-translation choice) with mandatory explicit correction against the absent “Antichrist” assumption |
| Apokalypsis (title) | Paraphrase as “revelation,” not transliterate as “apocalypse” | This is the single most important paraphrase-over-transliteration decision in the whole book: the transliterated English derivative “apocalypse” has drifted so far toward cataclysmic destruction that using it as the primary rendering would actively mislead; “revelation” (an unveiling/disclosure), the established English Bible-translation choice, must be retained as primary, with “apocalypse/apocalyptic” used only in explicitly flagged genre-discussion contexts |
| Mark of the beast (charagma) | Paraphrase (“mark”), not transliterate | No transliteration tradition exists; the risk is not the English word chosen but the conspiracy-driven anachronistic content readers supply — address via explicit historical grounding, not via word choice |
| Synagogue of Satan | Paraphrase (literal, exact rendering), with mandatory historic-misuse disclaimer attached every time | No transliteration question here; the risk is reception-historical weaponization, addressed by required explanatory framing rather than by word substitution |
| Tabernacle/dwell (skēnē/skēnoō) | Paraphrase (“dwell”/“tabernacle”), not transliterate | English already has serviceable, canon-connecting vocabulary (echoing Exodus and John 1:14); no transliteration needed, only active glossing given its obsolescence in ordinary speech |
Section 4 — Ranked List of This Book’s Highest-Risk Ambiguities
Ranked by combined severity of (a) likelihood of confident misreading, (b) doctrinal weight, and (c) breadth of denominational or cultural contest. All items at rank 1–7 require mandatory human theologian review per the glossary’s maintenance notes; items below that line require at minimum native-speaker review.
- A thousand years / the millennium (20:2-7) — the single largest denominational fault-line the whole curriculum introduces (premillennial/amillennial/postmillennial); every other ranked item below is more contained in scope than this one. Mandatory transparent statement of the curriculum’s own position, with respectful naming of the other major traditions.
- The great tribulation (1:9; 2:9-10,22; 7:14) — compounds the millennium debate with a further live futurist/idealist split, and with the added complication of “rapture” being popularly assumed as this book’s own vocabulary when it is not biblical vocabulary at all.
- The beast (ch.13 and throughout) and the absent “Antichrist” — conspiracy-theory and pop-culture saturation is severe and current; the mismatch between assumed vocabulary (“Antichrist”) and actual vocabulary (“the beast”) must be named explicitly or readers will import the wrong search term into their own study.
- Mark of the beast / 666 (13:16-18) — live, currently circulating conspiracy-theory content (microchips, vaccines) actively competes with, and is frequently contrary to, the historically grounded first-century economic-exclusion referent; among the most urgent corrections in the entire book because the wrong reading is not merely outdated but actively viral in contemporary media.
- Second death / lake of fire (2:11; 20:6,10,14-15; 21:8) — highest doctrinal stakes of any term in the registry (eternal destiny), with genuine, serious denominational disagreement (eternal conscious torment / conditional immortality / minority universalist-leaning readings) that must be handled with the same transparency the baseline requires for assurance of salvation.
- King of kings and Lord of lords (19:16) — direct escalation of the baseline’s own single highest-ranked term (“Lord”); if “Lord” alone already risks landing with almost no force in contemporary English, the doubled superlative title risks landing with none at all without deliberate, sustained restoration.
- Synagogue of Satan (2:9; 3:9) — uniquely dangerous not because of comprehension difficulty but because of a documented history of real-world harm (anti-Jewish weaponization); risk category is reception-historical, not lexical, and therefore cannot be resolved by better word choice alone — only by mandatory, repeated, explicit contextual framing.
- Babylon the great (14:8; 16:19; 17:1-18:24) — significant live interpretive range (first-century Rome / any anti-God empire trans-historically / a specific future revived empire) compounded by competing secular pop-culture usage of the same word.
- Armageddon (16:16) — near-total secular capture of the loanword itself as a generic “catastrophic conflict” idiom, requiring correction back to a debated, far more restrained symbolic referent within a single verse.
- Lamb (arnion, throughout) — not ambiguous in the sense of unclear meaning, but at severe risk of one-sided sentimentalized misreading (cute/gentle only) that erases exactly half of the term’s built-in paradox (conquering sovereign); ranked below the above because the corrective is more straightforward to apply consistently once flagged.
- The great prostitute (17:1,5,15-16; 19:2) — OT covenant-unfaithfulness idiom now vulnerable to being heard as demeaning to women as a class rather than to the system it symbolizes; requires explicit OT background framing (Hosea, Ezekiel 16) on every occurrence.
- Morning star (2:28; 22:16) — a genuine internal-canon collision risk (positive Christological use here vs. popular KJV-derived “Lucifer” association elsewhere) that could cause serious confusion if left unaddressed, though lower doctrinal stakes than items above.
- The vice list of 21:8, especially “sorcerers” (pharmakoi) and “sexually immoral” (pornoi) — etymological false-friends producing an outright connotation inversion (pharmakoi → the positive-associated “pharmacy”); high surprise value but contained to a single verse’s exposition.
- Gog and Magog (20:8) — lower doctrinal stakes than items above, but a live, fringe, currently-circulating tendency to identify these names with specific present-day nations should be actively and explicitly discouraged rather than left unaddressed.
- “Soon/quickly” and the delay of the parousia (1:3; 22:7,10,12,20) — a serious, reasonable, frequently-raised lay objection rather than a false-friend risk in the technical sense; ranked lower because it is a well-known apologetic question with well-rehearsed answers rather than an emerging or novel confusion.
Section 5 — Full-Book Chapter Coverage Confirmation
Every chapter of Revelation has been reviewed for linguistic gap content. Chapters not separately itemized above introduced no additional gap beyond what is already logged in Sections 1–4 or in the prior 08_core_glossary.md; each is confirmed reviewed below rather than silently omitted.
| Ch. | Load-bearing gap content | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Revelation/apocalypse title gap; sign/signify instruction (1:1); who is/who was/who is to come; Alpha and Omega; Son of Man; Hades; witness/testimony | Reviewed — primary source of Section 1.8/1.9 gap content |
| 2 | Synagogue of Satan (Smyrna); crown (stephanos); second death; morning star; lukewarm anticipates ch.3; repent | Reviewed — primary source of ranked items 6, 12 |
| 3 | Synagogue of Satan (Philadelphia); the Amen title; lukewarm (3:16); new Jerusalem anticipated (3:12); book of life | Reviewed — primary source of Section 3 Amen/synagogue entries |
| 4 | Throne (dominant image begins); Almighty; Trisagion (“Holy, holy, holy”); worthy anticipated | Reviewed — primary source of Section 1.2/1.7 |
| 5 | Lamb (central introduction); worthy; David/Root of David; new song | Reviewed — primary source of Section 1.7/4 rank 10 |
| 6 | Overcome/conqueror (6:2); crowns; sea/cosmic imagery; wrath of the Lamb anticipated | Reviewed — reinforces Section 2.2 victory-vocabulary neighborhood |
| 7 | Salvation (doxological usage); nations/Gentiles; twelve tribes/Israel; great tribulation (7:14) | Reviewed — primary source of ranked item 2 |
| 8 | Saints’ prayers/incense (8:3-4); trumpet judgments begin | Reviewed — reinforces “saints” corporate sense; no new gap category |
| 9 | Abyss; sorcery/pharmakeia background anticipated; repent (9:20-21) | Reviewed — reinforces Section 2.1/2.2 |
| 10 | Mystery of God; prophecy self-designation reinforced | Reviewed — reinforces Section 1.8 |
| 11 | Two witnesses; temple of God (debated referent); ark of the covenant; kingdom of God climactic (11:15); his Christ | Reviewed — primary source of Section 1.1/1.2 kingdom material |
| 12 | Dragon (central introduction, explicit identification 12:9); woman/child imagery; the accuser; blood of the Lamb (12:11); overcome | Reviewed — primary source of Section 1.9 and ranked item 10 background |
| 13 | Beast (central introduction); mark of the beast; 666; false prophet anticipated | Reviewed — primary source of ranked items 3, 4 |
| 14 | Eternal gospel (universal proclamation); Babylon (first occurrence); tree/harvest imagery; Lamb (144,000) | Reviewed — reinforces Section 1.7/ranked item 8 |
| 15 | Song of Moses and the Lamb; tabernacle of testimony (minor extensions of established terms only) | Reviewed — confirmed no additional new gap beyond existing Lamb/tabernacle entries |
| 16 | Armageddon (sole occurrence, 16:16); Babylon reinforced; bowl judgments; repent reinforced | Reviewed — primary source of ranked item 9 |
| 17 | Babylon developed at length; great prostitute; beast elaborated; mystery | Reviewed — primary source of ranked item 11 |
| 18 | Babylon’s fall elaborated (extension of ch.14/17 vocabulary only) | Reviewed — confirmed no additional new load-bearing vocabulary |
| 19 | Marriage supper of the Lamb; Word of God title; King of kings and Lord of lords; Hallelujah; great prostitute judged; worship refused (19:10) | Reviewed — primary source of ranked item 6 and Section 1.6/1.7 |
| 20 | Millennium/thousand years; first resurrection; Gog and Magog; great white throne; lake of fire; second death | Reviewed — primary source of ranked items 1, 5, 14 |
| 21 | New heaven/new earth (kainos); new Jerusalem; covenant formula; freely/without cost; sea no more; vice list (21:8); bride | Reviewed — primary source of Section 1.5, ranked item 13, core passage anchor |
| 22 | Tree of life; do not add/take away; the Spirit and the Bride say “Come”; soon/quickly (closing); Alpha and Omega (22:13); morning star (22:16) | Reviewed — primary source of Section 1.5/1.6 closing material and ranked item 15 |
Coverage confirmation: all 22 chapters reviewed; no chapter silently omitted; Chapters 15 and 18 explicitly confirmed as containing no additional new gap-analysis content beyond extensions of already-logged terms, consistent with the prior glossary’s own maintenance note.
This document extends, and does not contradict, analysis/08_core_glossary.md, assets/bible_term_registry.json, and the baseline Romans translation_memory.json/bible_term_registry.json/12_ai_translation_requirements.md. All risk-tier conventions, citation format, and register requirements follow the baseline exactly.