Doctrine Analysis
Doctrine Analysis: Jeremiah (Full-Book Chapter Matrix)
A. Chapter-by-Chapter Doctrine Matrix
| Ch. | Doctrine(s) (registry key) | Supporting Passages (Jeremiah) | Risk | Translation Risk Notes | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prophetic Call and Authority | 1:4-10; 1:17-19 | Medium | ”Appelé”/“appel” must not drift toward Catholic clergy-”vocation” sense (baseline caution); this is God’s specific, individual commissioning of a named prophet, not the general believer’s calling. | Native speaker review |
| 2 | Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry | 2:1-37 (spiritual adultery, “two evils,” broken cisterns) | High | ”Se prostituer” (zanah) metaphor requires explicit gloss every occurrence to avoid a literal-accusation misreading; idol vocabulary (2:26-28) begins the book’s sustained polemic. | Human theologian |
| 3 | Repentance and Return; Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry | 3:1-14 (divorce law and God’s surprising pursuit); 3:18 (house of Israel and Judah reunited); 3:22 | High | ”Revenir” (shuv) fixed rendering must be used, not “se repentir”/“se convertir”; divorce-law logic (3:1) sets up the “surprising grace” of God’s continued pursuit — must not be lost to a purely legalistic reading. | Human theologian |
| 4 | Repentance and Return; Internalization of the Law (anticipatory) | 4:1-4 (circumcise the heart); 4:5-31 (invasion oracle) | High | ”Circoncire le cœur” anticipates 31:33; needs OT circumcision background gloss for French readers with low OT literacy. | Human theologian |
| 5 | Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry | 5:1-31 (pervasive corruption, false swearing, refusal to return) | High | General covenant-lawsuit rhetoric; no new terms beyond Ch. 2-3 vocabulary, but risk tier remains High per registry. | Human theologian |
| 6 | False Prophets versus True Prophecy; Discernment of True versus False “Peace” | 6:13-14 (“paix, paix,” et il n’y a point de paix) | High / Medium | First occurrence of the “false peace” formula; must be flagged as corrupt religious speech, not a variant of the baseline’s positive peace-with-God doctrine. | Human theologian |
| 7 | Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry | 7:1-34 (temple sermon; Topheth/Ben-Hinnom, 7:31-32) | High | Temple-trust illusion (“this is the LORD’s temple,” 7:4) must be rendered so the critique targets false confidence in ritual/institution, not the temple’s legitimate God-given role per se. | Human theologian |
| 8 | Discernment of True versus False “Peace” | 8:11 (repeats the “paix, paix” formula) | Medium | Reinforces Ch. 6; consistency of the false-peace phrase across occurrences is required. | Native speaker review |
| 9 | The Weeping Prophet and the Cost of Faithful Ministry; Divine Love and Covenant Loyalty | 9:1 (weeping); 9:23-24 (boasting only in knowing the LORD; chesed, mishpat, tsedaqah triad) | Medium / High | 9:24’s triad (steadfast love / justice / righteousness) must keep “amour fidèle” (chesed) lexically distinct from baseline’s “grâce”; this is the book’s key statement of what true boasting is. | Native speaker review / Human theologian (9:23-24) |
| 10 | Idolatry versus Devotional Images (France-Specific Sensitivity) | 10:1-16 (idols vs. the living God; “vanité,” hevel) | High | Central idol-polemic chapter; requires the explicit worship-of-a-substitute-deity gloss to avoid anti-Catholic/anti-Hindu misreading (see 04_comparative_theology.md). | Human theologian |
| 11 | Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry | 11:1-17 (covenant broken, parar berit) | High | ”Rompre l’alliance” must convey deliberate rupture, not mere neglect, per glossary Section B. | Human theologian |
| 12 | The Weeping Prophet and the Cost of Faithful Ministry | 12:1-6 (Jeremiah’s complaint: “why do the wicked prosper?”) | Medium | Raw complaint register must be preserved, not softened into pious resignation. | Native speaker review |
| 13 | Prophetic Sign-Acts | 13:1-11 (linen loincloth) | Low | Concrete dramatized-prophecy narrative; minimal lexical ambiguity. | Automated review |
| 14 | False Prophets versus True Prophecy; Discernment of True versus False “Peace” | 14:13-16 (prophets prophesying falsely, “I did not send them”) | High / Medium | Explicit divine disavowal of the false prophets’ message; discernment criterion must accompany the term. | Human theologian |
| 15 | The Weeping Prophet and the Cost of Faithful Ministry | 15:10-18 (Jeremiah’s lament, “cursed be the day…”) | Medium | One of the book’s rawest laments; register must not be devotionally smoothed over. | Native speaker review |
| 16 | Prophetic Sign-Acts | 16:1-9 (sign-act: no marrying, no mourning, no feasting) | Low | Concrete, directly translatable narrative sign-act. | Automated review |
| 17 | Individual Responsibility | 17:5-10 (cursed is the one who trusts in man; deceitful heart); 17:19-27 (Sabbath, background) | Medium | ”Le cœur est tortueux” — French “cœur” narrower than Hebrew lev (mind + will); this is a foundational OT depravity text underlying Jeremiah 31’s new-heart promise. | Native speaker review |
| 18 | Judgment and Hope in Tension (Potter and Clay) | 18:1-11 (potter and clay) | Medium | Must preserve the responsive conditionality of 18:7-10; avoid flattening into either pure determinism or denial of sovereign initiative. | Native speaker review |
| 19 | Prophetic Sign-Acts | 19:1-13 (broken flask) | Low | Concrete sign-act narrative. | Automated review |
| 20 | The Weeping Prophet and the Cost of Faithful Ministry | 20:7-18 (“fire shut up in my bones”; “cursed be the day I was born”) | Medium | Key proof-text for the doctrine; “un feu enfermé dans mes os” is lexically direct but the surrounding despair (20:14-18) must not be muted. | Native speaker review |
| 21 | Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry | 21:1-14 (message to Zedekiah) | High | Judgment-oracle vocabulary consistent with earlier chapters; no new terms. | Human theologian |
| 22 | God’s Sovereign Plans for His People; Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry | 22:1-30 (kings judged; justice/righteousness for the poor, 22:3, 22:15-16) | High | ”Justice” here must retain its social-ethical sense (defense of the poor, per glossary Section A) alongside the forensic sense used elsewhere; anticipates the righteous-Branch title of Ch. 23. | Human theologian |
| 23 | Messianic Promise: The Righteous Branch; Deity of the Messianic Branch (YHWH Tsidkenu); False Prophets versus True Prophecy | 23:1-8 (righteous Branch, “le Seigneur notre justice”); 23:9-40 (false prophets; dream vs. word criterion) | Critical / Critical / High | The chapter’s two halves carry the book’s three highest-risk items simultaneously: the messianic title, the deity-claim embedded in that title, and the false-prophecy discernment criterion. Every occurrence requires human theologian review. | Human theologian |
| 24 | Hope of Restoration after Exile | 24:1-10 (two baskets of figs) | Medium | Sets up the good-figs/bad-figs contrast underlying later remnant material; corporate, historically specific framing must be preserved. | Native speaker review |
| 25 | God’s Sovereign Plans for His People; Divine Sovereignty over the Nations | 25:1-14 (seventy years); 25:15-29 (cup of the LORD’s wrath) | High | ”Soixante-dix ans” is a concrete, low-risk numeral, but the surrounding sovereignty-over-Babylon-and-all-nations framing carries High risk; cup-of-wrath image requires cross-testament consistency flag (Matthieu 26:39). | Human theologian |
| 26 | The Weeping Prophet and the Cost of Faithful Ministry | 26:1-24 (Jeremiah’s trial, threat of death) | Medium | Narrative account of the literal cost of faithful proclamation; contrast with Ch. 28’s false prophet Hananiah’s easier fate reinforces the doctrine. | Native speaker review |
| 27 | God’s Sovereign Plans for His People; Divine Sovereignty over the Nations | 27:1-22 (yoke of Babylon; Nebuchadnezzar as “my servant”) | High | ”Serviteur” applied to a pagan king must be distinguished from the Isaianic Suffering Servant title-family; “joug” needs historical framing to avoid quietist political misapplication. | Human theologian |
| 28 | False Prophets versus True Prophecy | 28:1-17 (Hananiah’s false sign and death) | High | Direct narrative contrast of true (Jeremiah) vs. false (Hananiah) prophet, resolved by a verifiable outcome — an important teaching anchor for the discernment criterion. | Human theologian |
| 29 | God’s Sovereign Plans for His People; Hope of Restoration after Exile | 29:1-32 (letter to the exiles; “plans of welfare,” 29:11; “seek the LORD… you will find me,” 29:13) | High / Medium | 29:11 is the single highest decontextualization-risk verse in the book for French devotional and secular motivational culture; corporate, 70-year setting must be explicitly restored every time it is taught. | Human theologian |
| 30 | Hope of Restoration after Exile | 30:1-24 (restoration of Jacob’s tents) | Medium | Corporate restoration promise; avoid flattening into generic personal comfort. | Native speaker review |
| 31 | The New Covenant (core passage); Covenant Formula and Relational Belonging; Internalization of the Law; Forgiveness and Atonement; Divine Love and Covenant Loyalty; Individual Responsibility; Unity of the Covenant People | 31:1-30 (everlasting love, 31:3; individual-responsibility proverb reversal, 31:29-30); 31:31-34 (New Covenant, core passage); 31:38-40 | Critical (core) / Medium / High / High / High / Medium / High | The curriculum’s theological anchor chapter. Every clause of 31:31-34 requires human theologian review per the registry; “nouvelle alliance,” “écrire sur le cœur,” “je serai leur Dieu, ils seront mon peuple,” “pardonner,” and “amour éternel” must each be checked against Section D register decisions and the forbidden-substitution logic extended from the baseline. | Human theologian |
| 32 | Hope of Restoration after Exile; Prophetic Sign-Acts | 32:1-15 (field purchase, redemption/land-right, ge’ulah); 32:36-44 (restoration promise) | Medium / Low | ”Droit de rachat” must be distinguished from the broader NT soteriological “rédemption” per glossary Section B; the sign-act itself (purchasing land during a siege) is concrete and low-risk. | Native speaker review |
| 33 | Messianic Promise: The Righteous Branch; Deity of the Messianic Branch (YHWH Tsidkenu); The New Covenant; God’s Sovereign Plans for His People | 33:1-13 (restoration); 33:14-16 (righteous Branch, “le Seigneur notre justice” repeated); 33:19-26 (covenant with day and night) | Critical / Critical / Critical / High | Restates Ch. 23’s Critical messianic/deity material and links it explicitly to covenant certainty (“alliance du jour et de la nuit,” reusing baseline “alliance” exactly); requires the same theologian-level scrutiny as Ch. 23 and 31. | Human theologian |
| 34 | Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry | 34:1-22 (covenant of release/liberty violated, deror) | High | Covenant-hypocrisy case study tied literally to the karat berit (“cutting a covenant”) ritual; “libération/affranchissement” needs historical-legal background (slave manumission) for French readers. | Human theologian |
| 35 | Individual Responsibility | 35:1-19 (the Rechabites’ faithfulness as a contrast to Judah’s unfaithfulness) | Medium | Positive contrast case reinforcing that individual/family faithfulness to a received command is possible and commended; no new high-risk terms. | Native speaker review |
| 36 | Inspiration and Preservation of Scripture | 36:1-32 (scroll written, burned, rewritten) | Medium | Must make explicit that destroying the written word did not destroy its power or truth — a needed corrective to French secular-academic purely literary/historical-critical reading habits. | Native speaker review |
| 37 | The Weeping Prophet and the Cost of Faithful Ministry | 37:1-21 (Jeremiah imprisoned) | Medium | Narrative continuation of the ministry-cost theme; no new terms. | Native speaker review |
| 38 | The Weeping Prophet and the Cost of Faithful Ministry | 38:1-13 (Jeremiah in the cistern) | Medium | Most physically severe instance of the cost-of-ministry theme; register must retain the narrative’s stark realism. | Native speaker review |
| 39 | Historical Fulfillment of the Prophetic Word | 39:1-18 (fall of Jerusalem) | Low | Literal historical fulfillment of judgments announced from Ch. 1 onward; concrete historical narration. | Automated review |
| 40 | (No doctrine-registry entry newly triggered) | 40:1-16 (aftermath; Jeremiah released, Gedaliah appointed) | — | Reviewed — no new doctrinal load. Narrative continuation of God’s sovereign historical governance already covered under God’s Sovereign Plans and Historical Fulfillment; no new high-risk vocabulary. | Automated review |
| 41 | (No doctrine-registry entry newly triggered) | 41:1-18 (assassination of Gedaliah) | — | Reviewed — no new doctrinal load. Political-narrative chapter; vocabulary already covered elsewhere. | Automated review |
| 42 | Individual Responsibility | 42:1-22 (the remnant’s inquiry and disobedient response) | Medium | Sets up Ch. 43-44’s ironic-remnant material; the people’s request for guidance followed by disobedience reinforces individual accountability regardless of group identity. | Native speaker review |
| 43 | Remnant Theology | 43:1-13 (remnant flees to Egypt against the LORD’s word) | Medium | First direct instance of “un reste” acting unfaithfully; must not be read through the popular assumption that “remnant” automatically means “faithful minority.” | Native speaker review |
| 44 | Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry; Remnant Theology; Individual Responsibility | 44:1-30 (idolatry in Egypt; ironic unfaithful remnant) | High / Medium / Medium | Culminating, ironic use of “remnant” — the survivors themselves relapse into idolatry; this chapter is the primary corrective text against automatic remnant=faithful assumptions and must be taught alongside Ch. 23:3 and 31:29-30. | Human theologian |
| 45 | The Weeping Prophet and the Cost of Faithful Ministry | 45:1-5 (word to Baruch) | Medium | Minor but genuine instance of the ministry-cost theme extended to Jeremiah’s scribe/companion. | Native speaker review |
| 46 | Divine Sovereignty over the Nations | 46:1-28 (oracle against Egypt) | High | God’s rule over a specific pagan nation; “vengeance/rétribution” vocabulary must be framed as righteous judicial recompense, not personal retaliation. | Human theologian |
| 47 | Divine Sovereignty over the Nations | 47:1-7 (oracle against Philistia) | High | Same sovereignty framing as Ch. 46; no new terms. | Human theologian |
| 48 | Divine Sovereignty over the Nations | 48:1-47 (oracle against Moab) | High | Longest of the nation-oracles; consistent vengeance/recompense vocabulary required. | Human theologian |
| 49 | Divine Sovereignty over the Nations | 49:1-39 (oracles against Ammon, Edom, Damascus, Kedar, Elam) | High | Multiple short oracles; same sovereignty and recompense framing throughout. | Human theologian |
| 50 | Divine Sovereignty over the Nations | 50:1-46 (oracle against Babylon) | High | God’s sovereignty extends even over the empire he earlier called his own instrument (cf. Ch. 25, 27); must not read as inconsistency but as sovereign moral accountability applied to all nations including the instrument of judgment. | Human theologian |
| 51 | Divine Sovereignty over the Nations | 51:1-64 (oracle against Babylon, continued; symbolic scroll-sinking sign-act, 51:59-64) | High | Concludes the nations-oracle block; “vengeance/rétribution” consistency required through to the final verse. | Human theologian |
| 52 | Historical Fulfillment of the Prophetic Word; Hope of Restoration after Exile | 52:1-30 (fall of Jerusalem recounted); 52:31-34 (Jehoiachin’s release) | Low / Medium | Closing historical epilogue; 52:31-34’s unexpected hope-note (a Davidic king shown favor even in exile) functions as a deliberate, low-key restoration signal that should not be overlooked as a minor coda — it anticipates Chs. 31-33’s larger restoration and Davidic promises. | Automated review / Native speaker review |
B. Doctrine Summary Cross-Reference (matches doctrine_risk_registry.json exactly)
| Doctrine | Risk | Chapters (primary) | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|
| The New Covenant | Critical | 31, 33 | Human theologian |
| Messianic Promise: The Righteous Branch | Critical | 23, 33 | Human theologian |
| Deity of the Messianic Branch (YHWH Tsidkenu) | Critical | 23, 33 | Human theologian |
| Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry | High | 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 21, 22, 34, 44 | Human theologian |
| Idolatry versus Devotional Images (France-Specific) | High | 10, 44 (background: 2) | Human theologian |
| False Prophets versus True Prophecy | High | 6, 14, 23, 27–28 | Human theologian |
| God’s Sovereign Plans for His People | High | 1 (background), 18, 22, 25, 27, 29, 33 | Human theologian |
| Divine Sovereignty over the Nations | High | 25, 27, 46–51 | Human theologian |
| Internalization of the Law | High | 31, 4 (anticipatory) | Human theologian |
| Forgiveness and Atonement | High | 31, 36 (background) | Human theologian |
| Unity of the Covenant People (House of Israel and Judah) | High | 3, 31, 33 | Human theologian |
| Repentance and Return | High | 3, 4, 15, 18, 24, 29–31 | Human theologian |
| Divine Love and Covenant Loyalty | High | 2, 9, 31 | Human theologian |
| The Weeping Prophet and the Cost of Faithful Ministry | Medium | 1, 9, 12, 15, 20, 26, 37, 38, 45 | Native speaker review |
| Individual Responsibility | Medium | 17, 31, 35, 42, 44 | Native speaker review |
| Hope of Restoration after Exile | Medium | 24, 29, 30, 31, 32, 52 | Native speaker review |
| Prophetic Call and Authority | Medium | 1 | Native speaker review |
| Inspiration and Preservation of Scripture | Medium | 36 | Native speaker review |
| Covenant Formula and Relational Belonging | Medium | 31, 32, 24 | Native speaker review |
| Remnant Theology | Medium | 23, 43, 44 | Native speaker review |
| Discernment of True versus False “Peace” | Medium | 6, 8, 14 | Native speaker review |
| Judgment and Hope in Tension (Potter and Clay) | Medium | 18 | Native speaker review |
| Prophetic Sign-Acts | Low | 13, 16, 19, 27 (yoke sign), 32 | Automated review |
| Historical Fulfillment of the Prophetic Word | Low | 39, 52 | Automated review |
Totals (identical to doctrine_risk_registry.json): Critical = 3, High = 10, Medium = 9, Low = 2. Human theologian review required = 13 doctrines; native speaker review = 9 doctrines; automated review only = 2 doctrines.
C. Full-Book Coverage Confirmation
All 52 chapters of Jeremiah are represented in Section A. Chapters 40 and 41 are explicitly marked as reviewed with no new doctrinal load, rather than omitted, per the full-book coverage mandate; their content (post-fall political narrative) is fully accounted for under doctrines already established in earlier chapters (God’s Sovereign Plans for His People; Historical Fulfillment of the Prophetic Word).
Critical Risk Doctrines
The New Covenant
French name: la nouvelle alliance
Key terms: new_covenant, covenant_formula, write_on_the_heart, relational_knowledge_of_god, forgive_pardon, remember_judicially
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL, this curriculum’s theological anchor: ‘nouvelle alliance’ is the standard French name for the entire New Testament canon (Nouveau Testament), risking collapse of Jeremiah’s specific covenant promise into ‘the New Testament as a book’ rather than a distinct covenant reality inaugurated in Christ’s blood. Compounded by supersessionism risk given France’s significant Jewish community: the promise is explicitly to ‘the house of Israel and the house of Judah,’ not a Marcionite discarding of the Old Covenant or ethnic Israel.
Messianic Promise: The Righteous Branch
French name: la promesse messianique du germe juste
Key terms: righteous_branch, david, covenant_day_night
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: ‘le germe juste / le rejeton juste’ is a technical Davidic-messianic title, not merely ‘a good future king.’ In a biblically unchurched, secularizing French readership, the risk is reduction to a generic wise-ruler figure divorced from its fulfillment in Christ, parallel to the baseline’s ‘messiah’ Critical entry.
Deity of the Messianic Branch (YHWH Tsidkenu)
French name: la divinité du germe juste (« le Seigneur notre justice »)
Key terms: yhwh_tsidkenu, righteous_branch, yhwh_name
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: God’s own covenant name and character (‘le SEIGNEUR’) is applied directly to the Davidic Branch as an identity-title, not an honorific. Any softening into ‘the Lord will grant us justice’ rather than ‘the Lord IS our righteousness’ destroys the deity-claim, of comparable weight to the baseline’s ‘son_of_god’ Critical entry.
High Risk Doctrines
Judgment for Covenant Unfaithfulness and Idolatry
French name: le jugement pour l’infidélité à l’alliance et l’idolâtrie
Key terms: covenant_breaking, idol_idolatry, spiritual_adultery, vanity_futility
Review routing: Human theologian
HIGH: the sustained covenant-lawsuit genre requires ‘alliance’ to be read as a ritually sealed, relational bond rather than a mere legal contract, and idol-polemic requires explicit distinction from French Catholic devotional use of sacred images and statues (a live ecumenical sensitivity parallel to the baseline’s ‘saints’ caution) to avoid an implicit anti-Catholic misreading.
Idolatry versus Devotional Images (France-Specific Sensitivity)
French name: l’idolâtrie face aux images de dévotion
Key terms: idol_idolatry, living_god, baal
Review routing: Human theologian
HIGH, France-specific: Jeremiah’s polemic targets worship OF an image as a substitute deity, not devotional use of an image pointing to God — a distinction Catholic doctrine itself affirms, but one easily lost in translation if the gloss is not explicit. Failure to distinguish risks the curriculum being read as sectarian anti-Catholic polemic rather than faithful exposition of Jeremiah’s actual target.
False Prophets versus True Prophecy
French name: les faux prophètes face à la vraie prophétie
Key terms: false_prophet, dream_vs_word, false_peace
Review routing: Human theologian
HIGH: ‘faux prophète’ must always carry Jeremiah’s own discernment criterion (dream vs. word, ch. 23) or French readers in a pluralistic, therapeutic religious culture may assume any sincere speaker’s message is legitimate; the false-peace (‘paix, paix’) sub-theme also risks confusion with the baseline’s positive ‘peace with God’ doctrine if not explicitly distinguished.
God’s Sovereign Plans for His People
French name: les desseins souverains de Dieu pour son peuple
Key terms: potter_and_clay, seventy_years, yoke, servant_pagan_king, plans_of_welfare
Review routing: Human theologian
HIGH: ‘des projets de paix’ (29:11) is among the most widely decontextualized verses in French devotional culture, frequently read as an individual prosperity promise divorced from its corporate, 70-year exile setting; the yoke/servant material (chs. 27-28) also risks a quietist political misreading if the specific historical framing is not preserved.
Divine Sovereignty over the Nations
French name: la souveraineté divine sur les nations
Key terms: cup_of_wrath, vengeance_recompense, nations_gentiles, servant_pagan_king
Review routing: Human theologian
HIGH: God’s rule extends over pagan empires (even naming Nebuchadnezzar ‘my servant’), which can be misread either as endorsing tyranny or as generic fatalism; French readers need this framed as purposive sovereign judgment, not impersonal fate, and ‘vengeance’ must be understood as righteous judicial recompense rather than personal retaliation.
Internalization of the Law
French name: l’intériorisation de la loi
Key terms: write_on_the_heart, circumcise_the_heart, law
Review routing: Human theologian
HIGH: must not be read as either (a) abolition of Torah (a Marcionite misreading) or (b) a vague ‘principle of love’ divorced from concrete moral content; French ‘cœur’ also risks narrowing the Hebrew lev (mind, will, moral center) to mere sentiment.
Forgiveness and Atonement
French name: le pardon et l’expiation
Key terms: forgive_pardon, remember_judicially, iniquity, transgression
Review routing: Human theologian
HIGH: ‘pardonner’ (salach, the divine pardon-act) must be kept distinct from ‘expier’ (the priestly sacrificial mechanism), and the OT’s three-term sin vocabulary (iniquité/péché/transgression) must not collapse silently into a single French word, or the totality of the New Covenant’s forgiveness (reaching the deep moral condition, not only isolated acts) will be lost.
Unity of the Covenant People (House of Israel and Judah)
French name: l’unité du peuple de l’alliance (maison d’Israël et maison de Juda)
Key terms: house_of_israel_judah, israel
Review routing: Human theologian
HIGH: given France’s significant Jewish community and contemporary Middle East political sensitivities, the New Covenant’s explicit address to the historic, undivided covenant people must be handled with the same historical-theological care the baseline requires for ‘Israël,’ avoiding both supersessionist erasure and anachronistic modern-political conflation.
Repentance and Return
French name: la repentance et le retour
Key terms: return_repent, restore_captivity
Review routing: Human theologian
HIGH: ‘revenir’ is fixed as the primary rendering of shuv precisely to avoid ‘se repentir’ (French Catholic sacramental-Confession freight) and ‘se convertir’ (a single-event-conversion implication); this single verb’s doctrinal weight recurs so often across the book (over 111 occurrences) that consistent, deliberate rendering is essential to the whole book’s theology of relational, repeated turning.
Divine Love and Covenant Loyalty
French name: l’amour divin et la fidélité de l’alliance
Key terms: everlasting_love, covenant_loyalty
Review routing: Human theologian
HIGH: ‘amour éternel’ (ahavah) and ‘amour fidèle/bonté’ (chesed) must be kept lexically distinct from the baseline’s ‘grâce’ entry; both are the unmerited, prior motivational ground for the New Covenant, but collapsing them into ‘grâce’ erases Jeremiah’s own distinct vocabulary of covenant love in favor of a purely Pauline category.
Medium Risk Doctrines
The Weeping Prophet and the Cost of Faithful Ministry
French name: le prophète qui pleure et le coût d’un ministère fidèle
Key terms: weeping_lament, fire_in_bones, calling
Review routing: Native speaker review
MEDIUM: ‘pleurer’/‘lamentation’ translate directly with little ambiguity, but the doctrine’s force depends on preserving the raw honesty of Jeremiah’s complaints (15:10; 20:14-18) rather than softening them into pious resignation, a drift risk in devotionally polished French renderings.
Individual Responsibility
French name: la responsabilité individuelle
Key terms: remnant, iniquity, deceitful_heart
Review routing: Native speaker review
MEDIUM: Jeremiah 31:29-30’s proverb reversal (‘everyone shall die for his own sin’) and chapter 44’s ironic unfaithful ‘remnant’ both require French teaching material to resist the popular assumption that group identity (surviving exile, being ‘the remnant’) automatically confers faithfulness or exemption from individual accountability.
Hope of Restoration after Exile
French name: l’espérance de la restauration après l’exil
Key terms: restore_captivity, redemption_land_right, release_liberty
Review routing: Native speaker review
MEDIUM: the restoration promises are corporate and post-70-year-exile in scope; French devotional appropriation risks flattening these into generic, immediate personal comfort divorced from the concrete historical waiting period the text specifies.
Prophetic Call and Authority
French name: l’appel et l’autorité prophétiques
Key terms: calling, prophet
Review routing: Native speaker review
MEDIUM: ‘appel’ must not drift toward ‘vocation’ in its Catholic clergy/religious-life sense, consistent with the baseline’s caution on the general believer’s calling; here the calling is Jeremiah’s specific prophetic office, requiring the same ‘appel’ term but a context-specific gloss.
Inspiration and Preservation of Scripture
French name: l’inspiration et la préservation de l’Écriture
Key terms: scroll, yhwh_declaration_formula
Review routing: Native speaker review
MEDIUM: the scroll’s burning and rewriting (36:27-32) demonstrates that destroying the written word does not destroy its power or truth; French secular-academic culture’s tendency to treat prophetic text as purely literary/historical-critical needs this doctrinal point made explicit.
Covenant Formula and Relational Belonging
French name: la formule de l’alliance et l’appartenance relationnelle
Key terms: covenant_formula, house_of_israel_judah
Review routing: Native speaker review
MEDIUM: ‘je serai leur Dieu, et ils seront mon peuple’ must not be anachronistically equated with ‘l’Église’; this is covenant-people language underlying, but not equivalent to, the New Testament church.
Remnant Theology
French name: la théologie du reste
Key terms: remnant
Review routing: Native speaker review
MEDIUM: French devotional shorthand often assumes ‘un reste’ always denotes an automatically faithful minority; chapter 44’s ironic unfaithful remnant in Egypt must be taught explicitly to avoid this over-simplification.
Discernment of True versus False ‘Peace’
French name: le discernement entre la vraie et la fausse « paix »
Key terms: false_peace
Review routing: Native speaker review
MEDIUM: because ‘paix’ is the same French word used for the baseline’s positive ‘peace with God’ doctrine, teaching material in this curriculum must repeatedly and explicitly flag Jeremiah’s false-peace passages as corrupt religious speech, not a variant of the positive doctrine.
Judgment and Hope in Tension (Potter and Clay)
French name: le jugement et l’espérance en tension (le potier et l’argile)
Key terms: potter_and_clay
Review routing: Native speaker review
MEDIUM: the potter’s responsiveness to the clay’s behavior (18:7-10) balances divine sovereignty with genuine conditionality; French renderings must avoid flattening this into either pure determinism or a denial of God’s active sovereign initiative.
Low Risk Doctrines
Prophetic Sign-Acts
French name: les actes prophétiques symboliques
Review routing: Automated review
LOW: the genre of dramatized, enacted prophecy (loincloth, broken flask, yoke, field purchase) translates concretely with minimal lexical ambiguity; its doctrinal significance (public, costly obedience) is carried by narrative content rather than by any single high-risk term.
Historical Fulfillment of the Prophetic Word
French name: l’accomplissement historique de la parole prophétique
Key terms: seventy_years
Review routing: Automated review
LOW: these narrative chapters record the literal historical fulfillment of judgments announced from chapter 1 onward, including the unexpected hope-note of Jehoiachin’s release (52:31-34); low lexical risk, concrete historical narration.
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