Passage
Romans 8
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Glossary Term
Abba
Aramaic term of intimacy preserved as 'Abba, Père' across Segond, TOB, and Bible de Jérusalem (Romans 8:15).
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Glossary Term
Adoption
Bare 'adoption' reads as the modern legal-procedural process (child adoption agencies).
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Doctrine
Adoption into God's Family
Full son-status with complete inheritance rights; bare 'adoption' risks the modern legal-procedural sense unless qualified as 'filiale'.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Doctrine
Assurance of Salvation
Assurance grounded in God's unchanging character, not the ongoing sacramental-standing anxiety some Catholic catechesis can inadvertently foster.
ROM.8.1, ROM.8.28-39
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Glossary Term
Called
Context-sensitive: in 1:1 = called to apostleship; in 1:7 = called to be saints; in 8:28-30 = effectual calling to salvation.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Calling
Use 'appel' for the general believer's calling.
ROM.8.28-30
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Doctrine
Christian Identity in Christ
Identity located in union with Christ, not national, cultural, or nominal-Catholic heritage identity.
ROM.8.1
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Doctrine
Divine Calling
Risk of narrowing 'calling' to 'vocation' in the Catholic clergy/religious-life sense rather than Paul's calling of every believer.
ROM.8.28-30
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Doctrine
Effectual Calling
God's sovereign call ensuring the salvation of the called; must not be read through the lens of political 'élection' as a competitive or democratic process.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Election
HIGH RISK, distinctly French: 'élection' is the everyday word for political/democratic elections, risking a reading of God's choice as competitive or merit-based rather than sovereign and gracious.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Father
God as personal Father; no competing deity-name risk in French as in Hindi.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Doctrine
Incarnation
Well-established doctrinal term; the risk is secular flattening via 'incarner' (to embody a role), not a competing religious concept as in Hindi's avatar.
ROM.8.3
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Glossary Term
Incarnation
Well-established doctrinal term (l'Incarnation, Christmas).
ROM.8.3
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Glossary Term
Intercession
Catholic devotional practice of 'intercession des saints' is a major category in French Catholic piety; must distinguish the Spirit's and Christ's unique heavenly intercession (Romans 8:26-27, 34) from saint or Marian intercession.
ROM.8.26-27
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Glossary Term
Peace
In Romans 5:1, relational peace with God through justification, not merely psychological calm.
ROM.8.6
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Doctrine
Peace with God
Relational, covenantal peace through justification, not psychological calm.
ROM.8.6
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Doctrine
Prayer and Intercession
Direct access to God in Christ's name; must be distinguished from the Catholic devotional practice of intercession of the saints.
ROM.8.26-27
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Doctrine
Providence
Personal, purposive divine care; Enlightenment-era deist usage of 'la Providence' in French risks an impersonal-force reading of Romans 8:28.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Providence
18th-century Enlightenment deism used 'la Providence' for an impersonal benevolent order; must render Romans 8:28's providence as the personal, purposive care of a covenant God, not a deist abstraction.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Resurrection
No competing reincarnation folk-concept in French as there is in Hindi; the real risk is secular naturalism flattening 'résurrection' into a metaphor ('renaissance', 'rebond') rather than a historical, bodily event.
ROM.8.11
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Doctrine
Resurrection of Christ
Bodily, historical, once-for-all event.
ROM.8.11
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Glossary Term
Son Of God
CRITICAL: full phrase required, conveying eternal, unique Sonship, not a divinely inspired man or messenger.
ROM.8.3, ROM.8.29
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Doctrine
Sonship of Christ
CRITICAL: eternal, unique Sonship, not adoptive or metaphorical sonship as in ordinary human 'adoption filiale'.
ROM.8.3, ROM.8.29