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CRITICAL, and among the most distinctive risks in this entire pipeline: in Modern Greek, ‘κύριος’ is also the completely ordinary polite title equivalent to English ‘Mister/Sir’ (‘κύριε’ in address, ‘ο κύριος Παπαδόπουλος,’ ‘Mr. Papadopoulos’). Romans 10:9’s confession ‘Jesus is Lord’ (Ἰησοῦς Κύριος) must be actively reconnected to its Septuagint background, where Κύριος is the standard Greek rendering of the divine name YHWH — meaning Paul’s application of the word to Jesus is a direct claim to Jesus’s identity with God, a datum uniquely traceable in Greek. Must never be allowed to register with the flatness of the everyday honorific.