Passage
Romans 9
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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.9.4
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Glossary Term
Adoption
Bare 'adoption' reads as the modern legal-procedural process (child adoption agencies).
ROM.9.4
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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.9.4
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Glossary Term
Called
Context-sensitive: in 1:1 = called to apostleship; in 1:7 = called to be saints; in 8:28-30 = effectual calling to salvation.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Calling
Use 'appel' for the general believer's calling.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Covenant
Relational covenant bond, more than a legal contract; 'alliance' also usefully evokes the wedding ring (l'alliance) in French, a helpful relational resonance.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
David
Standard proper name form across all French Bible traditions.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Davidic Covenant
Requires OT background explanation for readers with low biblical literacy; 'semence de David' is archaic and should be rendered 'descendance de David'.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Deity of Christ
CRITICAL: co-equal divine nature must not be softened into 'un homme divinement inspiré' or 'un grand prophète'.
ROM.9.5
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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.9.11-12
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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.9.11-12
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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.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Father
God as personal Father; no competing deity-name risk in French as in Hindi.
ROM.9.4
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Glossary Term
Glory
God's radiant honor and presence.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
God
Secularization risk: 'Dieu' is used as a casual interjection ('Mon Dieu!') and, in academic/philosophical French, can be treated as an abstract deist concept rather than the personal, triune God of Scripture.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
Messiah
The Anointed One fulfilling OT promise, not one figure among several.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Messianic Promise
The specific Jewish OT concept fulfilled exclusively in Jesus must not be flattened into a generic wise-teacher or moral-exemplar figure, a drift risk in a biblically illiterate secular readership.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
Seed Of David
Romans 1:3.
ROM.9.5