Passage
Romans 9
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Glossary Term
Abba
Aramaic term of intimacy preserved by Luther as 'Abba, lieber Vater' (Romans 8:15), retained in all major modern German translations.
ROM.9.4
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Glossary Term
Adoption
Luther's own term for huiothesia.
ROM.9.4
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Doctrine
Adoption into God's Family
Full son-status with complete inheritance rights; Luther's 'Kindschaft' preserves this better than the modern legal-procedural 'Adoption'.
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
'Berufung' is also the everyday word for career/life calling (Berufung zum Lehrer) and, distinctly, the legal term for a court appeal (Berufung einlegen) — a genuine German-specific homonym-collision risk requiring context to disambiguate from either secular sense.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Covenant
Relational covenant bond, established biblical German usage since Luther.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
David
Standard proper name form across all German traditions.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Davidic Covenant
Requires OT background explanation; 'Same Davids' is archaic and should be rendered 'Nachkomme Davids' to avoid clinical register collision.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Deity of Christ
CRITICAL: co-equal divine nature must not be softened into 'ein von Gott erfüllter Mensch' or similar diminished readings.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Divine Calling
'Berufung' collides with two unrelated everyday senses (career vocation; legal appeal), requiring context to keep the divine-initiative sense clear.
ROM.9.11-12
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Doctrine
Effectual Calling
God's sovereign call ensuring the salvation of the called; German Reformed and Lutheran traditions differ in emphasis on predestination, requiring care not to over-systematize for a mixed audience.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Election
German Reformed (Calvinist) tradition, present in parts of western Germany, historically debated double predestination more directly than Lutherans, who tend toward a more pastoral, comfort-oriented emphasis on election.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Father
God as personal Father.
ROM.9.4
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Glossary Term
Glory
God's radiant presence and honor.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
God
Sharp religious-literacy divide between former West and East Germany (the latter shaped by decades of state-atheist policy) means 'Gott' is increasingly encountered as cultural-historical vocabulary rather than a live claim for a large and growing 'konfessionslos' (religiously unaffiliated) population.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
Messiah
The Anointed One fulfilling OT promise.
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 moral teacher, a real drift risk given widespread biblical illiteracy.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
Seed Of David
Luther's literal 'von dem Samen Davids' is now archaic; modern 'Same' primarily denotes biological seed/semen in clinical register.
ROM.9.5