Core Glossary
Core Glossary: 2 Peter (French)
Risk tiers follow the baseline doctrine_risk_registry.json definitions exactly: Critical (human theologian review, every occurrence) · High (human theologian review) · Medium (native speaker review recommended) · Low (automated review sufficient).
A. Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
| Term (Eng.) | Greek | Transliteration | French Rendering | Risk | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| myths/fables | μῦθος | mythos | fable(s) | Medium | New | ”Fable” risks La Fontaine/Aesop children’s-tale register in French; reinforce as “fables habilement conçues.” |
| eyewitnesses | ἐπόπται | epoptai | témoins oculaires | Low | New | Grounds apostolic authority in verified historical experience. |
| prophetic word | προφητικὸς λόγος | prophētikos logos | parole prophétique | Medium | New | OT literacy gap requires contextual glossing of the referent, not the term. |
| confirmed/more certain | βεβαιότερον | bebaioteron | confirmée [d’autant plus certaine] | Medium | New | Guard against implying the OT word was previously uncertain. |
| Scripture | γραφή | graphē | Écriture / les Écritures | Medium | New | Must capitalize; lowercase “écriture” = handwriting/written style, a false-friend risk. |
| own interpretation | ἰδίας ἐπιλύσεως | idias epilyseōs | [ne provient pas] d’une initiative personnelle [du prophète] | Critical | New | Direct parallel to baseline’s justification/imputed_righteousness flashpoint. KJV’s “private interpretation” has historically been read as a Trent-aligned argument against believers’ individual reading of Scripture. Must render as concerning the prophecy’s origin (the prophet’s initiative), not the reader’s later interpretive act. Mandatory theologian review every occurrence. |
| will of man | θέλημα ἀνθρώπου | thelēma anthrōpou | volonté humaine | Low | New | Negates human initiative as prophecy’s source. |
| carried along | φέρω (φερόμενοι) | pheromenoi | poussés [par l’Esprit Saint] | Medium | New | Avoid implying mechanical dictation; preserve active Spirit-direction of engaged human speakers. |
| prophecy | προφητεία | prophēteia | prophétie | Low | Reuse (baseline) | Baseline doctrine “Fulfillment of Prophecy” applies; here specifically “prophecy of Scripture.” |
| prophet | — | — | prophète | Low | Reuse (baseline) | No new risk. |
| twist/distort (Scripture) | στρεβλοῦσιν | streblousin | déforment / tordent [le sens de] | Medium | New | Companion caution to ἐπίλυσις above; misuse of Scripture from the reader’s side. |
| hard to understand | δυσνόητα | dysnoēta | difficile à comprendre | Low | New | Honest acknowledgment of interpretive difficulty. |
B. Growing in Christian Virtue
| Term (Eng.) | Greek | Transliteration | French Rendering | Risk | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| faith | πίστις | pistis | foi | Medium | Reuse (baseline) | No new risk. |
| virtue/excellence | ἀρετή | aretē | vertu | High | New | Risk of narrowing to female chastity (colloquial “perdre sa vertu”) or scholastic Catholic virtue-ethics framing; gloss as “excellence morale active / courage moral.” |
| knowledge | γνῶσις | gnōsis | connaissance | Medium | New | Never render “gnose” (invokes Gnostic heresy); distinguish from ἐπίγνωσις below. |
| full/true knowledge | ἐπίγνωσις | epignōsis | [pleine] connaissance | Medium | New | French lacks the gnōsis/epignōsis distinction; qualify as “pleine connaissance” or “connaissance véritable.” |
| self-control | ἐγκράτεια | egkrateia | maîtrise de soi | Low | New | Clear, standard. |
| perseverance/endurance | ὑπομονή | hypomonē | persévérance | Medium | New | Must be kept distinct from μακροθυμία (God’s patience, §F) — reserve “patience” for the latter only. |
| godliness | εὐσέβεια | eusebeia | piété | Medium | New | French “piété” risks a narrow, sentimental-devotional register; gloss toward comprehensive reverent living. |
| brotherly affection | φιλαδελφία | philadelphia | affection fraternelle | Low-Medium | New | Kept distinct from baseline “communion fraternelle” (κοινωνία, a different term). |
| love | ἀγάπη | agapē | amour | Medium | New | Not in baseline TM; add as new entry. Qualify at first use (“l’amour selon Dieu”) to avoid a default romantic-love reading. |
| diligence/eagerness | σπουδή | spoudē | empressement / zèle | Low | New | Standard. |
| divine excellence/glory (of God) | ἴδια δόξα καὶ ἀρετή | idia doxa kai aretē | sa propre gloire et sa vertu | Medium | New | Distinguish this occurrence (God’s own character) from ἀρετή as human virtue above. |
| calling | κλῆσις | klēsis | appel | High | Reuse (baseline) | Reused exactly with baseline’s “Divine Calling”/“Effectual Calling” cautions against “vocation.” |
| election | ἐκλογή | eklogē | élection | High | Reuse (baseline) | Reused exactly; must never be read through French political-election lens. |
C. False Teachers and Their Judgment
| Term (Eng.) | Greek | Transliteration | French Rendering | Risk | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| false teachers | ψευδοδιδάσκαλοι | pseudodidaskaloi | faux enseignants | Medium | New | Prefer over archaic-sounding “faux docteurs” (medical-doctor false-friend risk in modern French). |
| destructive heresies | αἱρέσεις ἀπωλείας | haireseis apōleias | hérésies [destructrices/de perdition] | High | New | ”Hérésie” is loaded with French Inquisition/guerres de religion history; steer exposition toward doctrinal content (denial of Christ), not institutional-deviance framing. |
| Master (absolute owner) | δεσπότης | despotēs | Maître [souverain] | High | New | Distinct Greek word from κύριος; the literal French cognate “despote” is unusable (purely pejorative, “tyrant/dictator” in modern French). Never confuse with baseline’s rejection of “maître” for kyrios/Seigneur — that rejection concerns a different Greek word. |
| bought/redeemed | ἀγοράζω (ἀγοράσαντα) | agorasanta | racheter | Medium-High | New | Prefer “racheter” over bare “acheter” to preserve costly, substitutionary redemption sense over ordinary commercial-purchase register. |
| destruction/perdition | ἀπώλεια | apōleia | perdition | Medium | New | Elevated, established religious-register French term; retain for doctrinal weight. |
| cast into Tartarus | ταρταρώσας | tartarōsas | précipités dans les abîmes de ténèbres | Critical | New | Never transliterate as “Tartare” — collides absurdly with the culinary term (steak tartare / sauce tartare) in modern French with zero religious association. Follow established French Bible convention of descriptive rendering. |
| flood/deluge | κατακλυσμός | kataklysmos | déluge | Low-Medium | New | Use “le Déluge” (the specific Noahic event), not generic loanword “cataclysme.” |
| error/deception | πλάνη | planē | erreur | Low-Medium | New | Culpable deviation from truth, not innocent mistake. |
| slaves of corruption | δοῦλοι τῆς φθορᾶς | douloi tēs phthoras | esclaves de la corruption | Medium | New | Same Greek word (δοῦλος) rendered honorifically “serviteur” at 1:1 — flag the deliberate contextual register shift for translators. |
| sensuality/licentiousness | ἀσέλγεια | aselgeia | débauche / dérèglement | Low-Medium | New | Standard, formal register. |
| greed/covetousness | πλεονεξία | pleonexia | cupidité / avidité | Low-Medium | New | Standard. |
| irrational animals | ἄλογα ζῷα | aloga zōa | bêtes sans raison | Low | New | Vivid image, low doctrinal risk. |
D. The Certainty of Christ’s Return
| Term (Eng.) | Greek | Transliteration | French Rendering | Risk | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| coming/parousia | παρουσία | parousia | avènement | High | New | Risk of collapse into secular “dawning of an era” usage or Catholic liturgical “l’Avent” (Christ’s first coming); must be consistently glossed as Christ’s personal, bodily, future return, matching baseline’s Romans 8:28/10:9 consistency-priority. |
| promise (of his coming) | ἐπαγγελία (τῆς παρουσίας) | epangelia | promesse [de son avènement] | High | New | Chapter 3’s thesis statement; treat with baseline-level cross-document consistency priority. |
| scoffers/mockers | ἐμπαῖκται | empaiktai | moqueurs | Low-Medium | New | Standard, clear. |
| last days | ἔσχατοι ἡμέραι | eschatoi hēmerai | derniers jours | Low | New | Standard eschatological phrase. |
E. The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment
| Term (Eng.) | Greek | Transliteration | French Rendering | Risk | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day of the Lord | ἡμέρα Κυρίου | hēmera Kyriou | jour du Seigneur | Critical | New | Major French collision: “le jour du Seigneur” is the standard French Catholic/secular term for Sunday. Mandatory clarifying gloss every occurrence to distinguish the eschatological Day of Judgment from weekly Sunday observance. Reuses baseline “Seigneur” for the noun but the full phrase is a new Critical entry in its own right. |
| judgment | κρίσις | krisis | jugement | Medium | New | Never render as “crise” (false cognate — means “crisis” in French, not “judgment”). |
| elements | στοιχεῖα | stoicheia | éléments | Medium | New | Risk of astrological/alchemical (“les quatre éléments”) or chemistry (“tableau périodique”) associations; clarify as the physical fabric of the created universe. |
| dissolve/destroyed | λύω (λυθήσεται) | lythēsetai | seront dissous | Medium | New | Risk of secular-naturalist metaphorical reading rather than a literal cosmic claim (parallel to baseline’s “résurrection” caution). |
| new heavens and new earth | καινοὶ οὐρανοὶ καὶ γῆ καινή | kainoi ouranoi kai gē kainē | de nouveaux cieux et une nouvelle terre | Low-Medium | New | Positive re-creation, not mere annihilation; teach alongside “jour du Seigneur” entry. |
| righteousness (dwells) | δικαιοσύνη | dikaiosynē | justice | High | Reuse (baseline) | Reused exactly; “righteousness dwells” describes the consummated moral order of the new creation. |
| spotless and blameless | ἄσπιλοι καὶ ἀμώμητοι | aspiloi kai amōmētoi | sans tache et sans défaut | Medium | New | Echoes OT sacrificial-purity language; brief background note recommended given low OT literacy. |
F. Patience of God’s Timing
| Term (Eng.) | Greek | Transliteration | French Rendering | Risk | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| patience/longsuffering (of God) | μακροθυμία | makrothymia | patience | High | New | Must be kept lexically distinct from ὑπομονή (§B, “persévérance,” human endurance) across the whole curriculum — two different Greek words for two different theological realities. |
| is slow/delays | βραδύνει | bradynei | tarde | Low | New | ”Le Seigneur ne tarde pas.” |
| not wanting any to perish | μὴ βουλόμενός τινας ἀπολέσθαι | mē boulomenos… | ne voulant pas qu’aucun périsse | High | New | Live Calvinist/Arminian interpretive tension, parallel to baseline’s election/effectual-calling flags in Romans 9–11; render literally, do not resolve the tension in translation. |
| repentance | μετάνοια | metanoia | repentance | Low-Medium | New | Prefer “repentance” over “conversion” for doctrinal precision at this formal register. |
| stability / unstable | στηριγμός / ἀστήρικτοι | stērigmos / astēriktoi | fermeté / mal assurés | Low-Medium | New | Connects to reliability-of-Scripture theme; low collision risk. |
G. Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption
| Term (Eng.) | Greek | Transliteration | French Rendering | Risk | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| divine power | θεία δύναμις | theia dynamis | puissance divine | Low | New | Consistent with baseline’s “puissance de Dieu” (power_of_god). |
| partakers of the divine nature | θείας κοινωνοὶ φύσεως | theias koinōnoi physeōs | participants de la nature divine | Critical | New | This curriculum’s single highest doctrinal-risk phrase: genuine Orthodox/Catholic théosis (divinization) vs. Reformed/evangelical moral-renewal readings. Must never be taught to imply believers become divine in essence. Mandatory theologian review every occurrence. |
| escape | ἀποφεύγω (ἀποφυγόντες) | apophygontes | ayant échappé à | Low | New | Decisive, completed escape from corruption. |
| corruption | φθορά | phthora | corruption | Medium | New | French “corruption” defaults to bribery/political corruption; gloss toward moral decay leading to ruin/death. |
| desire/lust | ἐπιθυμία | epithymia | convoitise | Medium | New | Prefer “convoitise” (illicit craving) over neutral “désir” when negatively qualified, as throughout 2 Peter. |
| divine excellence (God’s own) | ἴδια δόξα καὶ ἀρετή | idia doxa kai aretē | sa propre gloire et sa vertu | Medium | New | Cross-listed with §B; God’s own character as the means of the calling. |
| precious and great promises | τίμια καὶ μέγιστα ἐπαγγέλματα | timia kai megista epaggelmata | précieuses et magnifiques promesses | Low | New | Standard, clear. |
H. Christology and Deity of Christ (cross-doctrine, high-frequency)
| Term (Eng.) | Greek | Transliteration | French Rendering | Risk | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lord | κύριος | kyrios | Seigneur | Critical | Reuse (baseline) | Reused exactly; recurs constantly in the fixed formula “Seigneur et Sauveur.” |
| Savior | σωτήρ | sōtēr | Sauveur | Medium-High | New | Fixed formula with “Seigneur” throughout 2 Peter (1:1, 1:11, 2:20, 3:2, 3:18); guard against secular “hero/rescuer” flattening (e.g., sports/financial “sauveur”). Render consistently, never varied. |
| my beloved Son | υἱός μου ὁ ἀγαπητός | huios mou ho agapētos | mon Fils bien-aimé | Critical | New | Direct extension of baseline’s Critical “son_of_god”/“Fils de Dieu” doctrine; must convey eternal, unique Sonship, not parental favoritism among several children. |
| God and Savior [Jesus Christ] | τοῦ θεοῦ ἡμῶν καὶ σωτῆρος Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ | tou theou hēmōn kai sōtēros | de notre Dieu et Sauveur Jésus-Christ | Critical | New | Single-referent (Granville Sharp) construction affirming Christ’s full deity; French syntax must not split into two persons. |
| glory | δόξα | doxa | gloire | Medium | Reuse (baseline) | Reused exactly. |
| majesty | μεγαλειότης / μεγαλοπρεπής δόξα | megaleiotēs / megaloprepēs doxa | majesté / magnifique gloire | Low-Medium | New | megaloprepēs doxa is a reverential title for God the Father; note this is a circumlocution, not a separate glory-being. |
| kingdom (eternal, of Christ) | αἰώνιος βασιλεία | aiōnios basileia | royaume éternel | Medium | Reuse (baseline root) | Reuses baseline “Royaume” root and “Seigneur”; retains baseline’s caution against political/territorial readings. |
I. Proper Names
| English | Greek | Transliteration | French Rendering | Risk | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simon Peter | Σίμων Πέτρος | Simōn Petros | Simon Pierre | Low | Established French Bible form. |
| Paul | Παῦλος | Paulos | Paul | Low | Reuse (baseline) |
| Noah | Νῶε | Nōe | Noé | Low | Established form. |
| Sodom and Gomorrah | Σόδομα καὶ Γόμορρα | Sodoma kai Gomorra | Sodome et Gomorrhe | Low | Established form. |
| Lot | Λώτ | Lōt | Lot | Low | Established form. |
| Balaam | Βαλαάμ | Balaam | Balaam | Low | Established form. |
| Balak | Βαλάκ | Balak | Balak | Low | Established form. |
| Jesus (Christ) | Ἰησοῦς (Χριστός) | Iēsous (Christos) | Jésus(-Christ) | Low/Critical (per baseline) | Reuse (baseline) exactly. |
| God | θεός | theos | Dieu | Medium (per baseline) | Reuse (baseline) exactly. |
| Holy Spirit | Πνεῦμα Ἅγιον | Pneuma Hagion | Esprit Saint | Medium (per baseline) | Reuse (baseline) exactly. |
Cross-Reference Note for Phase 2
All terms marked Reuse (baseline) must be loaded from the existing translation_memory.json without modification. All terms marked New in this glossary are candidates for addition to translation_memory.json and bible_term_registry.json under the version-increment procedure specified in 12_ai_translation_requirements.md (“Translation Memory Load and Enforcement Instructions”), with Critical/High entries flagged for human theologian sign-off before Phase 2 segment translation begins on 2 Peter content.
Critical Risk Terms
Lord
Approved rendering: Seigneur
Transliteration: Seigneur
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: maître, patron
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. No change. Recurs constantly throughout 2 Peter in the fixed formula ‘Seigneur et Sauveur’ (1:2,1:8,1:11,1:14,1:16,2:20,3:2,3:18); the baseline’s feudal-resonance caution is amplified by this formula’s repetition and must never be confused with the distinct new term ‘Maître souverain’ (δεσπότης, 2:1).
Son Of God
Approved rendering: Fils de Dieu
Transliteration: Fils de Dieu
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: envoyé de Dieu, homme divin
Inherited from Romans package. No change. Doctrinal parent-entry for this curriculum’s new phrase ‘mon Fils bien-aimé’ (2 Pierre 1:17); the eternal, unique Sonship affirmed here is identical in kind to the baseline doctrine.
Own Interpretation
Approved rendering: [ne provient pas] d’une initiative personnelle [du prophète]
Transliteration: idias epilyseōs
Doctrine: Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: n’est pas laissée à une interprétation personnelle [du lecteur] (imports the disputed private-interpretation reading)
Original: ἰδίας ἐπιλύσεως
Category: Scripture
2 Pierre 1:20. This letter’s own Trent-vs-Reformation flashpoint, directly parallel to the baseline’s ‘justification’ entry. Concerns the prophecy’s ORIGIN (the prophet’s initiative), never the reader’s later interpretive act. Mandatory human theologian review every occurrence.
God And Savior
Approved rendering: notre Dieu et Sauveur Jésus-Christ
Transliteration: tou theou hēmōn kai sōtēros Iēsou Christou
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: de notre Dieu et du Sauveur Jésus-Christ (wrongly splits into two persons)
Original: τοῦ θεοῦ ἡμῶν καὶ σωτῆρος Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ
Category: Christology
2 Pierre 1:1. Granville Sharp single-referent construction. French syntax must preserve the single-referent reading; never insert ‘du’ before ‘Sauveur’. Mandatory theologian review; cross-reference baseline ‘son_of_god’ and ‘lord’.
Beloved Son
Approved rendering: mon Fils bien-aimé
Transliteration: huios mou ho agapētos
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: mon fils préféré (reduces to ordinary parental favoritism)
Original: υἱός μου ὁ ἀγαπητός
Category: Christology
2 Pierre 1:17. Direct extension of baseline’s Critical ‘son_of_god’/‘Fils de Dieu’ doctrine; must convey eternal, unique Sonship, never adoptive or metaphorical sonship.
Partakers Of Divine Nature
Approved rendering: participer à la nature divine
Transliteration: theias koinōnoi physeōs
Doctrine: Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption
Rejected alternatives: devenir divin, fusion avec Dieu
Original: θείας κοινωνοὶ φύσεως
Category: Salvation
2 Pierre 1:4. This curriculum’s single highest-risk phrase: Orthodox/Catholic mystical théosis (ontological divinization) vs. Reformed/evangelical moral-renewal readings diverge on identical French wording. Must never be taught to imply believers become divine in essence; the Creator/creature distinction must remain intact. Mandatory theologian review every occurrence.
Cast Into Abyss Of Darkness
Approved rendering: précipités dans les abîmes de ténèbres
Transliteration: tartarōsas
Doctrine: Historical Examples of Divine Judgment
Rejected alternatives: Tartare (collides catastrophically with the culinary term steak tartare / sauce tartare — zero religious association in modern French)
Original: ταρταρώσας
Category: Judgment
2 Pierre 2:4. NEVER transliterate. Follow established French Bible convention: render descriptively. Mandatory theologian/native-speaker review to ensure no transliteration slips through at the QA layer.
Day Of The Lord
Approved rendering: le jour du Seigneur
Transliteration: hēmera Kyriou
Doctrine: Day of the Lord and Final Judgment
Original: ἡμέρα Κυρίου
Category: Eschatology
2 Pierre 3:10 (also 3:7,3:12 ‘jour de Dieu’). MAJOR FRENCH COLLISION: this exact phrase is the standard French Catholic and secular designation for SUNDAY (‘le dimanche, jour du Seigneur’). Mandatory clarifying gloss at every occurrence in teaching content, distinguishing the eschatological Day of Judgment from weekly worship. Reuses baseline ‘Seigneur’ for the noun but the full phrase is a new Critical entry in its own right.
Righteousness Dwells
Approved rendering: la justice habite
Transliteration: dikaiosynē katoikei
Doctrine: Cosmic Dissolution and New Creation
Original: δικαιοσύνη κατοικεῖ
Category: Eschatology
2 Pierre 3:13. Reuses baseline Critical ‘justice’ entry exactly; describes the consummated moral order of the new creation.
High Risk Terms
Grace
Approved rendering: grâce
Transliteration: grâce
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: faveur, mérite
Inherited from Romans package. No change. Used in 2 Peter’s epistolary greeting (1:2, ‘grâce et paix’) and throughout the letter’s grace-and-knowledge framing; must always reinforce grace as unmerited, never sacramentally mediated merit.
Righteousness
Approved rendering: justice
Transliteration: justice
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: vertu, droiture
Inherited from Romans package. No change. Reused in 2 Peter for ‘notre Dieu et Sauveur… la justice’ (1:1), Noah as ‘prédicateur de justice’ (2:5), and ‘la justice habite’ in the new heavens and earth (3:13); must retain forensic/right-standing sense, never mere moral achievement.
Calling
Approved rendering: appel
Transliteration: appel
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Rejected alternatives: vocation (clergy-narrowing risk)
Original: κλῆσις
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package. No change. 2 Pierre 1:10 pairs ‘appel’ with ‘élection’ as a matched exhortation; never render as ‘vocation’ (Catholic clergy/religious-life narrowing risk).
Election
Approved rendering: élection
Transliteration: élection
Doctrine: Effectual Calling
Rejected alternatives: chance, destin
Original: ἐκλογή
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package. No change. Paired with ‘appel’ in 2 Pierre 1:10; must never be read through the lens of French political/democratic elections — a direct load-bearing reuse point from the Romans baseline, intensified here by the doubled exposure of both terms in a single verse.
Savior
Approved rendering: Sauveur
Transliteration: sōtēr
Doctrine: Christ as Savior
Rejected alternatives: libérateur, rédempteur
Original: σωτήρ
Category: Christology
Fixed formula with ‘Seigneur’ throughout 2 Peter (1:1,1:11,2:20,3:2,3:18). Secular/pop-cultural French ‘le sauveur’ (sports, financial rescue) flattens exclusive cosmic saving Lordship into a situational hero-rescuer; render identically at every occurrence, never varied.
Master Sovereign Owner
Approved rendering: Maître [souverain]
Transliteration: despotēs
Doctrine: Extent of Christ’s Redemption
Rejected alternatives: despote (purely pejorative — tyrant/dictator — in modern French)
Original: δεσπότης
Category: Christology
2 Pierre 2:1. A distinct, stronger Greek word than κύριος; must never be confused with the baseline’s separate rejection of ‘maître’ as a substitute for kyrios/Seigneur — that rejection concerns a different Greek word entirely.
Bought Redeemed
Approved rendering: racheter
Transliteration: agorasanta
Doctrine: Extent of Christ’s Redemption
Rejected alternatives: acheter (trivializes into ordinary retail purchase)
Original: ἀγοράζω (ἀγοράσαντα)
Category: Salvation
2 Pierre 2:1. Preserves the costly, substitutionary nature of Christ’s redemptive act, even applied to false teachers who deny him — bears on the extent of the atonement.
Virtue Excellence
Approved rendering: vertu
Transliteration: aretē
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Original: ἀρετή
Category: Sanctification
2 Pierre 1:5. Second link in the virtue chain. Two live French risks: (1) Catholic scholastic ‘vertus cardinales et théologales’ framing pulls toward a static ethics system foreign to Peter’s dynamic, courage-inflected sense; (2) colloquial ‘perdre sa vertu’ narrows the word to female chastity. Gloss as ‘vertu (excellence morale active, courage moral)’ at first occurrence.
Destructive Heresies
Approved rendering: hérésies [destructrices/de perdition]
Transliteration: haireseis apōleias
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Original: αἱρέσεις ἀπωλείας
Category: Judgment
2 Pierre 2:1. ‘Hérésie’ is heavily freighted by French ecclesiastical history (Inquisition, guerres de religion, historic labeling of French Protestants as ‘hérétiques’); steer exposition toward the false teaching’s doctrinal content (denial of Christ), not institutional-deviance framing.
Coming Of Christ
Approved rendering: avènement
Transliteration: parousia
Doctrine: Certainty of Christ’s Return
Rejected alternatives: venue (weaker, loses technical royal-arrival force)
Original: παρουσία
Category: Eschatology
2 Pierre 1:16, 3:4. Risk of collapse into secular ‘dawning of an era’ usage (l’avènement de l’ère numérique) or the liturgical ‘l’Avent’ (Christ’s FIRST coming). Must be consistently glossed as Christ’s personal, bodily, future return at every occurrence, matching baseline’s Romans 8:28/10:9 cross-document consistency priority.
Promise Of His Coming
Approved rendering: la promesse de son avènement
Transliteration: epangelia tēs parousias autou
Doctrine: Certainty of Christ’s Return
Original: ἐπαγγελία τῆς παρουσίας αὐτοῦ
Category: Eschatology
2 Pierre 3:4. Chapter 3’s thesis question (the scoffers’ challenge); inherits parousia’s full risk profile and cross-document consistency priority.
Patience Of God
Approved rendering: patience
Transliteration: makrothymia
Doctrine: Patience of God’s Timing
Rejected alternatives: persévérance (reserved exclusively for hypomonē, human endurance)
Original: μακροθυμία
Category: God
2 Pierre 3:9, 3:15. Must be kept lexically distinct from ch. 1’s ‘persévérance’ across the whole curriculum — two different Greek words for two different theological realities (God’s forbearance vs. believer’s endurance).
Not Wanting Any To Perish
Approved rendering: ne voulant pas qu’aucun périsse, mais voulant que tous parviennent à la repentance
Transliteration: mē boulomenos tinas apolesthai alla pantas eis metanoian chōrēsai
Doctrine: God’s Desire for Universal Repentance
Rejected alternatives: ne voulant pas qu’aucun des élus périsse (wrongly resolves the tension in a particular-redemption direction), voulant que tous les êtres humains sans exception soient sauvés (wrongly resolves the tension toward universalism)
Original: μὴ βουλόμενός τινας ἀπολέσθαι ἀλλὰ πάντας εἰς μετάνοιαν χωρῆσαι
Category: God
2 Pierre 3:9. Render literally, without resolving the Calvinist/Arminian tension over the extent of God’s saving will, parallel to baseline’s election/effectual-calling flags in Romans 9-11.
Medium Risk Terms
Faith
Approved rendering: foi
Transliteration: foi
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: croyance, religion
Original: πίστις
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package. No change. Foundation term of the 2 Peter 1:5-7 virtue chain (πίστις) and of the ‘faith of equal standing’ (1:1); must specify personal trust in Christ, not generic religiosity.
Holy
Approved rendering: saint
Transliteration: saint
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: pur
Inherited from Romans package. No change. Used for ‘sainte montagne’ (2 Pierre 1:18, the Mount of Transfiguration); holiness derives from the theophany event, not the geography — minor pilgrimage-shrine reading risk in French Catholic devotional culture.
Kingdom Of God
Approved rendering: Royaume de Dieu
Transliteration: Royaume de Dieu
Doctrine: Kingdom Mission
Inherited from Romans package. No change. Root term for this curriculum’s new phrase ‘royaume éternel [de notre Seigneur et Sauveur Jésus-Christ]’ (2 Pierre 1:11); retain the baseline’s caution against political/territorial readings.
Sin
Approved rendering: péché
Transliteration: péché
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Inherited from Romans package. No change. Used for ‘les anges qui ont péché’ (2 Pierre 2:4) and ‘ses péchés d’autrefois’ (1:9, paired with the new term ‘cleansing_of_former_sins’).
Glory
Approved rendering: gloire
Transliteration: gloire
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: δόξα
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. No change. Recurs at the Transfiguration (1:17, paired with ‘honneur’) and in ‘la magnifique gloire’ (μεγαλοπρεπὴς δόξα, a reverential title for God the Father, not a separate glory-being).
Power Of God
Approved rendering: puissance de Dieu
Transliteration: puissance de Dieu
Doctrine: Power of God for Salvation
Rejected alternatives: force
Inherited from Romans package. No change. Root term for this curriculum’s new phrase ‘puissance divine’ (θεία δύναμις, 2 Pierre 1:3), the source of ‘everything necessary for life and godliness.‘
God
Approved rendering: Dieu
Transliteration: Dieu
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: θεός
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. No change. Component of the Critical new phrase ‘notre Dieu et Sauveur Jésus-Christ’ (2 Pierre 1:1) and of ‘le jour du Seigneur… jour de Dieu’ (3:12).
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: Esprit Saint
Transliteration: Esprit Saint
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: Πνεῦμα Ἅγιον
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. No change. The active agent of prophetic inspiration in 2 Pierre 1:21 (‘poussés par l’Esprit Saint’); retain the ecumenical/modern word order, not Segond’s ‘Saint-Esprit’.
Myths
Approved rendering: fable(s)
Transliteration: mythos
Doctrine: Apostolic Eyewitness Testimony
Rejected alternatives: mythe (secular/academic flattening risk)
Original: μῦθος
Category: Scripture
2 Pierre 1:16. French ‘fable’ risks the La Fontaine/Aesop children’s-tale register, softening Peter’s polemical ‘dangerous fabrication’ charge. Always pair with the qualifying participle: ‘fables habilement conçues.‘
Majestic Glory
Approved rendering: la magnifique gloire
Transliteration: megaloprepēs doxa
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Original: μεγαλοπρεπὴς δόξα
Category: God
2 Pierre 1:17. A reverential circumlocution/title for God the Father at the theophany, not a separate glory-being; French readers may read it as poetic ornament rather than a divine title without a clarifying note.
Prophetic Word
Approved rendering: parole prophétique
Transliteration: prophētikos logos
Doctrine: Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Original: προφητικὸς λόγος
Category: Scripture
2 Pierre 1:19. The term is straightforward; the referent (the OT prophetic corpus) needs contextual glossing given low OT literacy in the target French readership.
More Fully Confirmed
Approved rendering: confirmée [d’autant plus certaine]
Transliteration: bebaioteron
Doctrine: Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Original: βεβαιότερον
Category: Scripture
2 Pierre 1:19. Must not imply the OT prophetic word was previously uncertain; eyewitness testimony and OT prophecy mutually reinforce each other, not a hierarchy of certainty.
Morning Star
Approved rendering: étoile du matin
Transliteration: phōsphoros
Doctrine: Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: phosphore (collides with the chemical element)
Original: φωσφόρος
Category: Scripture
2 Pierre 1:19. Standard rendering but associated in French popular culture with astrology/horoscope contexts; flag for a clarifying note distinguishing the natural/astronomical image from occult association.
Scripture
Approved rendering: Écriture / les Écritures
Transliteration: graphē
Doctrine: Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: écriture (lowercase — handwriting/style false friend)
Original: γραφή
Category: Scripture
2 Pierre 1:20, 3:16. Must always capitalize; lowercase ‘écriture’ means handwriting or a writing style, a false-friend risk flattening the sacred, canonical sense.
Carried Along
Approved rendering: poussés [par l’Esprit Saint]
Transliteration: pheromenoi
Doctrine: Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Original: φερόμενοι (φέρω)
Category: Scripture
2 Pierre 1:21. Must not imply mechanical dictation overriding the human author’s personality; the prophets remained engaged speakers (‘men spoke’) actively directed by the Spirit.
Twist Distort
Approved rendering: déforment / tordent le sens de
Transliteration: streblousin
Doctrine: Proper Handling of Scripture
Original: στρεβλοῦσιν
Category: Scripture
2 Pierre 3:16. The reader-side companion caution to ‘own_interpretation’ (1:20’s origination warning); keep these two distinct in exposition — origin of prophecy vs. later misuse by readers.
Well Pleased
Approved rendering: en qui j’ai mis toute mon affection
Transliteration: eudokēsa
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: qui a toute ma faveur, en qui j’ai pris plaisir
Original: εὐδοκέω (εὐδόκησα)
Category: Christology
2 Pierre 1:17. Segond-aligned rendering; risks sounding emotionally casual — clarify this expresses fixed divine approval, not changeable sentiment.
Eternal Kingdom
Approved rendering: royaume éternel
Transliteration: aiōnios basileia
Doctrine: Christ as Savior
Original: αἰώνιος βασιλεία τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν καὶ σωτῆρος
Category: Christology
2 Pierre 1:11. ‘Royaume éternel de notre Seigneur et Sauveur Jésus-Christ’ — reuses baseline ‘Royaume’ root and ‘Seigneur’, combined with the new term ‘Sauveur’; retain the baseline’s caution against political/territorial readings.
Corruption
Approved rendering: corruption
Transliteration: phthora
Doctrine: Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption
Original: φθορά
Category: Salvation
2 Pierre 1:4, 2:12, 2:19. French ‘corruption’ defaults to bribery/political corruption; gloss toward moral decay leading to ruin/death at first occurrence.
Desire Lust
Approved rendering: convoitise
Transliteration: epithymia
Doctrine: Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption
Rejected alternatives: désir (too neutral)
Original: ἐπιθυμία
Category: Salvation
2 Pierre 1:4, 2:10, 2:18. Prefer ‘convoitise’ (illicit craving) over neutral ‘désir’ wherever negatively qualified, as throughout 2 Peter.
Divine Excellence
Approved rendering: sa propre gloire et sa vertu
Transliteration: idia doxa kai aretē
Doctrine: Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption
Original: ἴδια δόξα καὶ ἀρετή
Category: God
2 Pierre 1:3. God’s own glory and moral excellence — distinct from the human virtue commanded at 1:5 using the same Greek word aretē; flag both occurrences so translators do not conflate God’s character with the human virtue believers are to add.
Cleansing Of Former Sins
Approved rendering: purification de ses péchés d’autrefois
Transliteration: katharismos tōn palai hamartēmatōn
Doctrine: Sanctified Living and Cleansing from Past Sin
Original: καθαρισμὸς τῶν πάλαι ἁμαρτημάτων
Category: Salvation
2 Pierre 1:9. Risks a ritual/sacramental reading (confession, absolution) given the ceremonial background and French Catholic penitential vocabulary; clarify this refers to once-for-all forgiveness at conversion, not an ongoing ritual act.
Knowledge
Approved rendering: connaissance
Transliteration: gnōsis
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Rejected alternatives: gnose (invokes the ancient Gnostic heresy the NT itself combats)
Original: γνῶσις
Category: Sanctification
2 Pierre 1:5. Practical, applied knowledge of godly living; must never be rendered ‘gnose’. Distinct from the intensified epignōsis (see ‘full_knowledge’).
Full Knowledge
Approved rendering: pleine connaissance
Transliteration: epignōsis
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Rejected alternatives: connaissance (bare — loses the intensifying prefix)
Original: ἐπίγνωσις
Category: Sanctification
2 Pierre 1:2, 1:3, 1:8, 2:20. French lacks a lexical pair matching the Greek gnōsis/epignōsis distinction; qualify consistently as ‘pleine connaissance’ or ‘connaissance véritable’ at every occurrence.
Perseverance
Approved rendering: persévérance
Transliteration: hypomonē
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Rejected alternatives: patience (reserved exclusively for makrothymia, God’s forbearance)
Original: ὑπομονή
Category: Sanctification
2 Pierre 1:6. Active, persevering human endurance under trial. MUST be kept lexically distinct from ch. 3’s ‘patience’ (μακροθυμία, God’s forbearance) across the whole curriculum — two different Greek words for two different theological realities.
Godliness
Approved rendering: piété
Transliteration: eusebeia
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Original: εὐσέβεια
Category: Sanctification
2 Pierre 1:3, 1:6-7, 3:11. Risks a narrow, sentimental-devotional connotation in French (‘un geste pieux’); qualify toward comprehensive, reverent living where teaching content allows.
Brotherly Affection
Approved rendering: affection fraternelle
Transliteration: philadelphia
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Original: φιλαδελφία
Category: Sanctification
2 Pierre 1:7. Kept distinct from baseline’s ‘communion fraternelle’ (koinōnia, a different Greek term/concept).
Love
Approved rendering: amour
Transliteration: agapē
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Original: ἀγάπη
Category: Sanctification
2 Pierre 1:7. New entry — not in baseline Romans translation memory. Ordinary French ‘amour’ defaults to romantic love; qualify at first occurrence (‘l’amour selon Dieu’, ‘l’amour désintéressé’) to steer readers from a romantic-love default reading. The crowning virtue of the chain.
Body As Tent
Approved rendering: cette tente [mon corps]
Transliteration: skēnōma
Doctrine: Remembrance and Exhortation
Rejected alternatives: tente (bare — banal camping-equipment image in modern French)
Original: σκήνωμα
Category: Sanctification
2 Pierre 1:13-14. A bare literal ‘tente’ risks trivializing the solemn OT-tabernacle-echoing metaphor; the bracketed clarification preserves both metaphorical dignity and legibility.
Departure
Approved rendering: mon départ
Transliteration: exodos
Doctrine: Remembrance and Exhortation
Rejected alternatives: mon exode (collides with ‘l’Exode’ of 1940, WWII civilian flight, in French cultural memory)
Original: ἔξοδος
Category: Sanctification
2 Pierre 1:15. A dignified euphemism for death, deliberately echoing Israel’s Exodus deliverance; recommend ‘mon départ’ with a bracketed scholarly note restoring the OT echo in teaching contexts: ‘mon départ (l’Écriture emploie ici le mot « exode »)’.
Servant Of Christ
Approved rendering: serviteur
Transliteration: doulos
Doctrine: Apostleship
Rejected alternatives: esclave (literal, but a register the French Bible tradition consistently avoids here)
Original: δοῦλος
Category: Sanctification
2 Pierre 1:1. Total, willing devotion to Christ as absolute owner, honorific. Established ‘serviteur’ softens the literal ‘esclave’ sense (total ownership, not employment) consistently with French Bible tradition. Contrast with the pejorative use of the same Greek word at 2:19 (‘slaves_of_corruption’) — the same noun receives opposite French registers by context, and this must be preserved, not flattened.
False Teachers
Approved rendering: faux enseignants
Transliteration: pseudodidaskaloi
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Rejected alternatives: faux docteurs (archaic Segond form; modern false-friend risk — medical/academic doctorate)
Original: ψευδοδιδάσκαλοι
Category: Judgment
2 Pierre 2:1. Prefer ‘faux enseignants’ over archaic ‘faux docteurs’ for this curriculum’s contemporary register target.
Perdition
Approved rendering: perdition
Transliteration: apōleia
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Rejected alternatives: destruction, ruine
Original: ἀπώλεια
Category: Judgment
2 Pierre 2:1, 2:3. Elevated, established religious-register French term; retained for doctrinal weight, flagged only for formal register.
Flood
Approved rendering: déluge
Transliteration: kataklysmos
Doctrine: Historical Examples of Divine Judgment
Rejected alternatives: cataclysme (generic modern loanword — loses the specific Noahic referent)
Original: κατακλυσμός
Category: Judgment
2 Pierre 2:5, 3:6. Always capitalized proper-noun ‘le Déluge’ for the specific historical event, a type of the coming judgment by fire.
Error
Approved rendering: erreur
Transliteration: planē
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Original: πλάνη
Category: Judgment
Must not be softened to an innocent mistake; culpable, active deviation from truth that entraps others.
Slaves Of Corruption
Approved rendering: esclaves de la corruption
Transliteration: douloi tēs phthoras
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Rejected alternatives: serviteurs de la corruption (would wrongly import 1:1’s honorific register)
Original: δοῦλοι τῆς φθορᾶς
Category: Judgment
2 Pierre 2:19. Same Greek noun (δοῦλος) rendered honorifically ‘serviteur’ at 1:1 — deliberate register shift must be preserved, not flattened to a single fixed gloss.
Sensuality
Approved rendering: débauche
Transliteration: aselgeia
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Rejected alternatives: dérèglement
Original: ἀσέλγεια
Category: Judgment
Unrestrained self-indulgence, especially sexual; formal register.
Greed
Approved rendering: cupidité
Transliteration: pleonexia
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Rejected alternatives: avidité
Original: πλεονεξία
Category: Judgment
Insatiable desire for gain, the financial vice of the false teachers.
Scoffers
Approved rendering: moqueurs
Transliteration: empaiktai
Doctrine: Mockery and the Last Days
Original: ἐμπαῖκται
Category: Eschatology
2 Pierre 3:3. Standard, clear rendering.
Judgment
Approved rendering: jugement
Transliteration: krisis
Doctrine: Day of the Lord and Final Judgment
Rejected alternatives: crise (false cognate — means ‘crisis’ in French, not ‘judgment’)
Original: κρίσις
Category: Eschatology
2 Pierre 2:4, 2:9, 3:7. Never render ‘crise’; enforce ‘jugement’ only.
Elements
Approved rendering: éléments
Transliteration: stoicheia
Doctrine: Cosmic Dissolution and New Creation
Original: στοιχεῖα
Category: Eschatology
2 Pierre 3:10, 3:12. Risk of astrological/alchemical (‘les quatre éléments’) or chemistry (‘tableau périodique’) associations; clarify as the physical fabric of the created universe.
Dissolved
Approved rendering: seront dissous
Transliteration: lythēsetai
Doctrine: Cosmic Dissolution and New Creation
Original: λυθήσεται (λύω)
Category: Eschatology
2 Pierre 3:10-12. Risk of secular-naturalist metaphorical reading (‘things will change dramatically’) rather than Peter’s literal claim about the physical cosmos, parallel to baseline’s ‘résurrection’ caution.
New Heavens And New Earth
Approved rendering: de nouveaux cieux et une nouvelle terre
Transliteration: kainoi ouranoi kai gē kainē
Doctrine: Cosmic Dissolution and New Creation
Original: καινοὶ οὐρανοὶ καὶ γῆ καινή
Category: Eschatology
2 Pierre 3:13. Positive re-creation, not mere annihilation; teach paired with ‘jour du Seigneur’ entry to complete the judgment-then-renewal picture.
Spotless And Blameless
Approved rendering: sans tache et sans défaut
Transliteration: aspiloi kai amōmētoi
Doctrine: Holiness in View of the Day of the Lord
Rejected alternatives: irréprochables (acceptable secondary option)
Original: ἄσπιλοι καὶ ἀμώμητοι
Category: Eschatology
2 Pierre 3:14. Echoes OT sacrificial-purity language (unblemished offering); a brief background note is recommended given low OT literacy.
Repentance
Approved rendering: repentance
Transliteration: metanoia
Doctrine: God’s Desire for Universal Repentance
Rejected alternatives: conversion (more contemporary, less doctrinally precise for this formal register)
Original: μετάνοια
Category: God
2 Pierre 3:9. Prefer ‘repentance’ for doctrinal precision consistent with this curriculum’s formal register.
Low Risk Terms
Apostle
Approved rendering: apôtre
Transliteration: apôtre
Doctrine: Apostleship
Inherited from Romans package. No change. Peter’s self-designation in 2 Pierre 1:1, paired with the honorific ‘serviteur’ (δοῦλος).
Peace
Approved rendering: paix
Transliteration: paix
Doctrine: Peace with God
Inherited from Romans package. No change. Part of the 2 Pierre 1:2 greeting ‘grâce et paix’, doctrinally identical to Romains 1:7.
Prophet
Approved rendering: prophète
Transliteration: prophète
Doctrine: Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: voyant
Inherited from Romans package. No change. Relevant to 2 Pierre 1:19-21’s teaching on the prophetic word’s divine origin.
Prophecy
Approved rendering: prophétie
Transliteration: prophétie
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Inherited from Romans package. No change. ‘Aucune prophétie de l’Écriture’ (2 Pierre 1:20), the direct object of this letter’s Critical-risk ‘own_interpretation’ term.
Jesus
Approved rendering: Jésus
Transliteration: Jésus
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Original: Ἰησοῦς (Χριστός)
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. No change. Recurs throughout 2 Peter in the fixed formula with ‘Seigneur’ and ‘Sauveur’ (e.g., ‘Jésus-Christ’).
Cleverly Devised
Approved rendering: habilement conçues
Transliteration: sesophismenois
Doctrine: Apostolic Eyewitness Testimony
Rejected alternatives: forgées avec art
Original: σεσοφισμένοις
Category: Scripture
2 Pierre 1:16. Conveys deliberate human artifice behind false teaching without doctrinal ambiguity.
Eyewitnesses
Approved rendering: témoins oculaires
Transliteration: epoptai
Doctrine: Apostolic Eyewitness Testimony
Original: ἐπόπται
Category: Scripture
2 Pierre 1:16. Grounds apostolic authority in verified historical experience, not derivative hearsay.
Majesty
Approved rendering: majesté
Transliteration: megaleiotēs
Doctrine: Apostolic Eyewitness Testimony
Original: μεγαλειότης
Category: Christology
2 Pierre 1:16. Splendor and grandeur befitting deity, witnessed at the Transfiguration; paired with ‘gloire’.
Voice From Heaven
Approved rendering: voix
Transliteration: phōnē
Doctrine: Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Original: φωνή
Category: Scripture
2 Pierre 1:17-18. An audible, historical, verifiable divine utterance.
Holy Mountain
Approved rendering: sainte montagne
Transliteration: hagion oros
Doctrine: Apostolic Eyewitness Testimony
Original: ἅγιον ὄρος
Category: Scripture
2 Pierre 1:18. Reuses baseline ‘saint’. Holiness derives from the theophany event, not the site’s inherent geography — a minor pilgrimage-shrine reading risk in French Catholic devotional culture.
Lamp
Approved rendering: lampe
Transliteration: lychnos
Doctrine: Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Original: λύχνος
Category: Scripture
2 Pierre 1:19. Scripture’s guiding, illuminating function in the present age.
Dark Place
Approved rendering: lieu obscur
Transliteration: auchmēros topos
Doctrine: Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Original: αὐχμηρὸς τόπος
Category: Scripture
2 Pierre 1:19. The moral-spiritual darkness of the present age; the ‘squalid/dismal’ nuance may soften but is not doctrinally load-bearing.
Will Of Man
Approved rendering: volonté humaine
Transliteration: thelēma anthrōpou
Doctrine: Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Original: θέλημα ἀνθρώπου
Category: Scripture
2 Pierre 1:21. Negates human initiative as prophecy’s source.
Hard To Understand
Approved rendering: difficile à comprendre
Transliteration: dysnoēta
Doctrine: Proper Handling of Scripture
Original: δυσνόητα
Category: Scripture
2 Pierre 3:16. Peter’s own honest acknowledgment about Paul’s letters; supports careful engagement, not naive simplicity or reckless distortion.
Stability Unstable
Approved rendering: fermeté / mal assurés
Transliteration: stērigmos / astēriktoi
Doctrine: Proper Handling of Scripture
Original: στηριγμός / ἀστήρικτοι
Category: Scripture
2 Pierre 3:16-17. The doctrinally unstable are vulnerable to twisted Scripture; low collision risk in French.
Honor
Approved rendering: honneur
Transliteration: timē
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Original: τιμή
Category: Christology
2 Pierre 1:17. Honor conferred by the Father on the Son at the Transfiguration; minor risk of a purely social-status reading, mitigated by pairing with ‘gloire’.
Divine Power
Approved rendering: puissance divine
Transliteration: theia dynamis
Doctrine: Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption
Original: θεία δύναμις
Category: Salvation
2 Pierre 1:3. Consistent with baseline’s ‘puissance de Dieu’; the source of everything necessary for life and godliness.
Escape Corruption
Approved rendering: ayant échappé à
Transliteration: apophygontes
Doctrine: Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption
Original: ἀποφεύγω (ἀποφυγόντες)
Category: Salvation
2 Pierre 1:4. Decisive, completed escape from the world’s corrupting desire, made possible only through partaking of the divine nature.
Precious Promises
Approved rendering: précieuses et magnifiques promesses
Transliteration: timia kai megista epaggelmata
Doctrine: Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption
Original: τίμια καὶ μέγιστα ἐπαγγέλματα
Category: Salvation
2 Pierre 1:4. Solemn divine pledges, the ground of hope and of partaking in the divine nature.
Self Control
Approved rendering: maîtrise de soi
Transliteration: egkrateia
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Original: ἐγκράτεια
Category: Sanctification
2 Pierre 1:6. Disciplined, Spirit-enabled control over desires and impulses; clear, standard French.
Diligence
Approved rendering: empressement / zèle
Transliteration: spoudē
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Original: σπουδή
Category: Sanctification
2 Pierre 1:5, 1:10, 3:14. Earnest effort and urgency in confirming one’s calling and election.
Stumble
Approved rendering: trébucher
Transliteration: ptaiō
Doctrine: Assurance of Standing Firm
Original: πταίω
Category: Sanctification
2 Pierre 1:10. Moral failure or falling short, not final apostasy; assurance is in view (never stumbling).
Remind
Approved rendering: rappeler
Transliteration: hypomimnēskein
Doctrine: Remembrance and Exhortation
Original: ὑπομιμνήσκειν
Category: Sanctification
2 Pierre 1:12-15, 3:1-2. Deliberate, repeated reminder of already-known truth — Peter’s stated purpose for writing.
Angels Who Sinned
Approved rendering: anges qui ont péché
Transliteration: angeloi hamartēsantes
Doctrine: Historical Examples of Divine Judgment
Original: ἄγγελοι ἁμαρτήσαντες
Category: Judgment
2 Pierre 2:4. Reuses baseline ‘péché’.
Noah Preacher Of Righteousness
Approved rendering: Noé, prédicateur de justice
Transliteration: Nōe / dikaiosynēs kēryx
Doctrine: Historical Examples of Divine Judgment
Original: Νῶε / δικαιοσύνης κήρυξ
Category: Judgment
2 Pierre 2:5. Reuses baseline ‘justice’; established French Bible form ‘Noé’.
Sodom And Gomorrah
Approved rendering: Sodome et Gomorrhe
Transliteration: Sodoma kai Gomorra
Doctrine: Historical Examples of Divine Judgment
Original: Σόδομα καὶ Γόμορρα
Category: Judgment
2 Pierre 2:6. Established French Bible form.
Lot
Approved rendering: Lot
Transliteration: Lōt
Doctrine: Historical Examples of Divine Judgment
Original: Λώτ
Category: Judgment
2 Pierre 2:7-8. Established French Bible form.
Balaam
Approved rendering: Balaam
Transliteration: Balaam
Doctrine: Historical Examples of Divine Judgment
Original: Βαλαάμ
Category: Judgment
2 Pierre 2:15-16. Established French Bible form; paradigm of a teacher motivated by greed.
Balak
Approved rendering: Balak
Transliteration: Balak
Doctrine: Historical Examples of Divine Judgment
Original: Βαλάκ
Category: Judgment
2 Pierre 2:15-16. Established French Bible form.
Irrational Animals
Approved rendering: bêtes sans raison
Transliteration: aloga zōa
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Original: ἄλογα ζῷα
Category: Judgment
2 Pierre 2:12. Vivid image; false teachers compared to instinct-driven beasts born to be caught and destroyed.
Last Days
Approved rendering: les derniers jours
Transliteration: ep’ eschatōn tōn hēmerōn
Doctrine: Mockery and the Last Days
Original: ἐπ’ ἐσχάτων τῶν ἡμερῶν
Category: Eschatology
2 Pierre 3:3. Standard eschatological phrase.
Is Slow
Approved rendering: tarde
Transliteration: bradynei
Doctrine: Patience of God’s Timing
Original: βραδύνει
Category: God
2 Pierre 3:9. ‘Le Seigneur ne tarde pas.‘
Simon Peter
Approved rendering: Simon Pierre
Transliteration: Simōn Petros
Doctrine: Apostleship
Original: Σίμων Πέτρος
Category: Covenant
2 Pierre 1:1. Established French Bible form; author’s self-identification establishing apostolic authority.
Paul
Approved rendering: Paul
Transliteration: Paulos
Doctrine: Proper Handling of Scripture
Original: Παῦλος
Category: Covenant
2 Pierre 3:15-16. Established French Bible form; referenced as a fellow apostolic author whose letters Peter treats as Scripture.
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