Linguistic Gap Analysis — 2 John (English → Hindi)

0. Scope and Method

2 John is a single chapter of thirteen verses. Full-book coverage is therefore equivalent to full-letter coverage; every verse has been reviewed for load-bearing vocabulary. Verses contributing no new terminology beyond what is already fixed in the Romans/Galatians baseline or catalogued in 08_core_glossary.md are noted explicitly below rather than silently omitted (see §5, Verse-by-Verse Coverage Ledger).

This analysis answers four questions for Phase 1 Step 8:

1. Doctrine vocabulary matrix — for each of the four assigned doctrines, what Hindi vocabulary is available, what are its weaknesses, and what is the recommended strategy?
2. Missing vocabulary vs. crowded semantic neighborhoods — where does Hindi lack a term entirely, and where does it instead have too many competing terms that must be fenced apart?
3. Transliteration vs. paraphrase — for each borderline case, which strategy is recommended and why?
4. Ranked highest-risk ambiguities — which decisions carry the greatest doctrinal stakes for this specific letter?

All recommendations below are consistent with, and never contradict, the baseline translation_memory.json and bible_term_registry.json, and with the term-level decisions already recorded in 08_core_glossary.md and the curriculum’s bible_term_registry.json entries. Where this document proposes a strategy, it is the linguistic justification underlying those artifacts, not a competing decision.

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1. Doctrine Vocabulary Matrix

1.1 Doctrine: Walking in Truth and Love

Element	Detail
Core Greek terms	ἀλήθεια (truth), ἀγάπη (love), ἐντολή (commandment), περιπατέω (walk)
Available Hindi terms	सत्य, सच्चाई (truth); प्रेम, स्नेह (love); आज्ञा, हुक्म (commandment); चलना, चाल चलना, जीवन बिताना (walk)
Weaknesses of available terms	सत्य is India’s paramount philosophical/civic term for absolute truth (सत्यमेव जयते; Sat of Sat-Chit-Ānanda) — an impersonal, self-evident cosmic principle rather than revealed apostolic content about a person. सच्चाई is more neutral/colloquial but is already reserved in the Galatians baseline for the compound “truth of the gospel,” creating a cross-curriculum interchangeability risk if used loosely here. प्रेम is saturated with Krishna-bhakti devotional-romantic connotation (प्रेम-भक्ति); स्नेह is available but too weak (mere affection, lacks the volitional/obedience-linked force of vv.5-6). आज्ञा is comparatively low-risk but must be distinguished from a personal guru’s directive. चलना/चाल चलना is an established Christian conduct-idiom with only mild मार्ग-resonance.
Recommended strategy	Retain सत्य (per 08_core_glossary.md row 1 / registry truth) with a mandatory first-occurrence translator note anchoring it to the specific, received, apostolic testimony about Christ (2 John 1,4,9), not a self-evident cosmic absolute. Retain प्रेम (registry love) with a mandatory translator note distinguishing commanded, mutual, obedience-linked ἀγάπη from bhakti-prema’s devotional longing, and explicitly cross-referencing the baseline’s narrower भाईचारे का प्रेम (philadelphia) so the two do not collapse into one undifferentiated “religious love” concept. Use आज्ञा (registry commandment) and चलना/चाल चलना (registry walk_in_truth) as recorded, with a light note anchoring “walk” to the concrete content of v.6 rather than a general spiritual path.
Fencing required	सत्य must be fenced against सत्यमेव जयते / Sat-Chit-Ānanda; प्रेम must be fenced against प्रेम-भक्ति. See §2.2 below.

1.2 Doctrine: Warning against Deceivers Denying the Incarnation

Element	Detail
Core Greek terms	ἀντίχριστος (antichrist), πλάνος (deceiver), ἐρχόμενον ἐν σαρκί (coming in the flesh / incarnation), σάρξ (flesh), ὁμολογέω (confess), κόσμος (world)
Available Hindi terms	मसीह-विरोधी (compound, no established loanword rival); भरमानेवाला, ठग, भ्रम फैलानेवाला (deceiver); देहधारण, अवतार (incarnation); शरीर, देह (flesh); अंगीकार करना, स्वीकार करना (confess); जगत, संसार (world)
Weaknesses of available terms	Hindi has no existing Christian-tradition term for ἀντίχριστος beyond the transparent compound मसीह-विरोधी — this is a genuine vocabulary gap, not a crowded-neighborhood problem (see §2.1). भरमानेवाला’s भ्रम root sits adjacent to माया (Vedantic cosmic illusion), risking a shift from “a specific human liar” to “an impersonal illusion-force.” अवतार is the single most dangerous available term in this entire doctrine cluster: it is the natural, idiomatic, unmarked Hindi word for a deity’s incarnation, and using it would make the very heresy this letter condemns indistinguishable from orthodoxy. संसार (for κόσμος) directly evokes the samsara/rebirth cycle, a stronger collision than जगत.
Recommended strategy	Use मसीह-विरोधी (registry antichrist) — the only viable option, confirming this is a required neologism, not a choice among existing options. Use भरमानेवाला (registry deceiver) with a mandatory note that this names a specific human doctrinal opponent, not माया. Absolutely retain देहधारण (registry incarnation), reused exactly from baseline, and absolutely forbid अवतार — this is the letter’s single highest-stakes lexical decision (see §4, rank 1). Retain शरीर (registry flesh) with a disambiguating note distinguishing this literal-body sense from the Pauline “fallen nature” sense शरीर also carries elsewhere in the baseline. Retain अंगीकार करना (registry confession_of_faith), never स्वीकार करना. Use जगत, not संसार, for κόσμος (registry world).
Fencing required	देहधारण vs. अवतार is the letter’s foundational fence (§2.2, §4 rank 1). भरमानेवाला vs. भ्रम/माया is a secondary fence. जगत vs. संसार is a tertiary, lower-stakes fence.

1.3 Doctrine: Hospitality and Doctrinal Discernment

Element	Detail
Core Greek terms	λαμβάνειν εἰς οἰκίαν (receive into the house), χαίρειν (greeting formula), κοινωνέω (share/participate in), ἔργον (works), πονηρός (evil)
Available Hindi terms	घर में ग्रहण करना, स्वागत करना, अतिथि-सत्कार (receive/host); अभिवादन, नमस्कार, नमस्ते (greeting); भागी होना, संगति करना (participate); काम, कर्म (works); दुष्ट, बुरा, पापी (evil)
Weaknesses of available terms	This is a crowded-neighborhood, culturally-loaded doctrine rather than a vocabulary gap: Hindi/Indian culture has an unusually rich, positively-saturated hospitality vocabulary (अतिथि-सत्कार, and above it the maxim अतिथि देवो भवः, “the guest is a god”), and the letter’s instruction runs directly against this cultural default. स्वागत करना alone is too weak — it loses the material/social-endorsement content that makes v.10 a substantive, costly instruction rather than a vague politeness note. नमस्ते is doctrinally live in a way अभिवादन/नमस्कार are not: it popularly asserts “I bow to the divine within you,” which would either import an Advaitic premise the letter does not hold or generalize into rudeness toward all outsiders. भागी होना/संगति करना is the verb form of a term whose noun (संगति, fellowship) the baseline documents as warmly positive and Low-risk — using it here without its negative object risks the opposite of the intended meaning. कर्म must never render ἔργον here, per the baseline’s established काम convention.
Recommended strategy	Use घर में ग्रहण करना (registry hospitality_to_false_teacher), never स्वागत करना alone, with a mandatory pastoral translator note distinguishing this narrow, doctrinally-triggered restriction from the biblically-affirmed general hospitality virtue (baseline अतिथि-सत्कार, Romans 12:13) — the note must make clear 2 John 10 is not a repeal of Christian hospitality as such. Use अभिवादन (registry greeting_formula), never नमस्ते, with a note explaining the concrete social function (withholding a customary blessing that implies endorsement) rather than a blanket anti-greeting rule. Use भागी होना (registry koinoneo_complicity) with the negative object phrase (”…उसके बुरे कामों में…”) always retained, never dropped. Use काम (registry works_deeds), never कर्म.
Fencing required	घर में ग्रहण करना vs. अतिथि-सत्कार / अतिथि देवो भवः is the doctrine’s primary fence. अभिवादन vs. नमस्ते is a second, socially sensitive fence. भागी होना vs. baseline संगति (positive fellowship noun) is a third, register-level fence.

1.4 Doctrine: Perseverance in the Teaching of Christ

Element	Detail
Core Greek terms	ἡ διδαχὴ τοῦ Χριστοῦ (teaching of Christ), προάγω (go/advance ahead), μένω (abide), μισθός (reward), ἐντολὴ καινή / ἀπ’ ἀρχῆς (new commandment / from the beginning)
Available Hindi terms	मसीह की शिक्षा, मसीह की व्यवस्था (teaching of Christ); आगे बढ़ जाना, उन्नति करना (go ahead); बना रहना, स्थिर रहना, टिके रहना (abide); पुरस्कार, फल (reward); नई आज्ञा, नया वचन (new commandment)
Weaknesses of available terms	शिक्षा (teaching) is not itself wrong, but it inherits the register of the Indian guru-paradigm, in which a disciple’s instruction is a stage to be eventually transcended — the opposite of what v.9 requires (fixed, permanent, non-negotiable perseverance). मसीह की व्यवस्था must never substitute for मसीह की शिक्षा: they translate two different Greek words (νόμος vs. διδαχή) with two different referents (the love-command vs. the doctrinal deposit about Christ’s identity) already distinguished in the Galatians baseline — a genuine cross-curriculum collision risk if conflated. उन्नति करना (“to advance/progress”) is actively dangerous for προάγων because it carries positive connotations in ordinary Hindi that directly match — and thereby validate — the very guru-transcendence/mārga-advancement pattern the verse condemns. फल is forbidden for μισθός for the same reason it is forbidden elsewhere in the baseline (कर्म-फल collision). नई आज्ञा / आरम्भ से risk being heard as a modest disclaimer (“it’s not really new, don’t worry”) rather than the letter’s operative claim that the apostolic deposit is closed and unchangeable.
Recommended strategy	Use मसीह की शिक्षा (registry teaching_of_christ) with mandatory theologian review and a note distinguishing it from मसीह की व्यवस्था (law_of_christ, Galatians baseline — different Greek term, different referent). Use आगे बढ़ जाना (registry going_ahead_of_the_teaching), never उन्नति करना, with a mandatory note that explicitly inverts the guru-transcendence expectation: here, “going ahead” = losing God, not spiritual maturity. Use बना रहना / स्थिर रहना (registry abide) consistently across all three occurrences (vv.2, 9×2) so the abide/depart antithesis remains visible. Use पुरस्कार (registry reward), never फल. Use नई आज्ञा / आरम्भ से (registry new_commandment_from_beginning) with a note tying “not new” to the same “from the beginning” language in v.6, framing continuity as a positive doctrinal claim, not a hedge.
Fencing required	आगे बढ़ जाना vs. उन्नति करना / guru-transcendence is this doctrine’s primary and highest-stakes fence (§4 rank 2). मसीह की शिक्षा vs. मसीह की व्यवस्था is a mandatory cross-curriculum fence. पुरस्कार vs. फल/कर्म-फल reuses an established baseline fence.

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2. Missing Vocabulary vs. Crowded Semantic Neighborhoods

2.1 Genuine Vocabulary Gaps (Hindi has no ready existing term)

Concept	Gap description	Resolution
ἀντίχριστος (antichrist)	No Hindi Christian tradition term exists independent of a Greek-derived loanword or transparent compound; Hindu apocalyptic vocabulary (e.g., Kalki-avatāra expectations) is not a safe substitute referent.	Coin/retain the transparent compound मसीह-विरोधी (Masīha + विरोधी), built from already-established roots rather than a loanword. This is a required neologism, not a selection among existing options.
ἡ διδαχὴ τοῦ Χριστοῦ as a closed, non-negotiable deposit (teaching of Christ, in its “possess-or-lose-God” force)	Hindi has शिक्षा for “teaching” generally, but no existing single term captures “a teaching one must never progress beyond,” since Indian religious pedagogy generally valorizes progression beyond a given teacher’s stage.	No single-word solution; retain मसीह की शिक्षा as the noun phrase and supply the “closed deposit” sense through the paired verb आगे बढ़ जाना / बना रहना antithesis and mandatory translator notes, rather than seeking an impossible single term.
προάγων used pejoratively (going ahead as loss, not gain)	Hindi vocabulary for “advancing/progressing” (उन्नति, प्रगति, आगे बढ़ना) is uniformly positively valenced in ordinary and religious registers alike; there is no existing Hindi term that inherently connotes “advancing = falling away.”	Use the religiously neutral verb phrase आगे बढ़ जाना (rather than उन्नति करना, which imports positive connotation) and supply the pejorative force entirely through context and a mandatory translator note — the negative valence must be constructed by the note, since the bare verb cannot carry it alone.

2.2 Crowded Semantic Neighborhoods Requiring Fencing

These are cases where Hindi has too many candidate terms, several of them culturally prestigious or devotionally loaded, such that the correct choice must be actively defended against its neighbors rather than simply selected.

Target concept	Chosen term	Crowding neighbors (rejected/fenced)	Fencing mechanism
ἀλήθεια (truth)	सत्य	सत्य-as-Sat (Sat-Chit-Ānanda); सत्यमेव जयते (impersonal civic-cosmic truth); सच्चाई (reserved for Galatians’ compound)	Mandatory first-occurrence translator note anchoring सत्य to received apostolic testimony about Christ, not cosmic self-evidence; explicit cross-curriculum note that सच्चाई is reserved elsewhere.
ἀγάπη (love)	प्रेम	प्रेम-भक्ति (Krishna devotional-romantic love); स्नेह (too weak)	Mandatory note distinguishing willed, mutual, obedience-linked ἀγάπη from devotional rapture; explicit note that this is broader than, and must not collapse into, the baseline’s narrower भाईचारे का प्रेम.
Christ’s incarnation	देहधारण	अवतार (Vishnu’s ten avatars; temporary, repeatable, deity-initiated descent)	Absolute forbidden-substitution rule (already established in baseline, reaffirmed here as the letter’s central doctrinal hinge); mandatory theologian review every occurrence.
πλάνος (deceiver)	भरमानेवाला	भ्रम / माया (Vedantic cosmic illusion)	Mandatory note: names a specific human doctrinal opponent making a false claim about a historical person, not an impersonal illusion-force.
κόσμος (world)	जगत	संसार (samsara/rebirth cycle — higher collision risk)	Preference rule: जगत over संसार, following established BSI Johannine precedent (John 3:16); brief clarifying note given this letter’s Gnostic-adjacent opponents.
λαμβάνειν εἰς οἰκίαν (receive into house)	घर में ग्रहण करना	अतिथि-सत्कार / अतिथि देवो भवः (general hospitality virtue, positively valued elsewhere in the baseline)	Mandatory pastoral note: this is a narrow, doctrinally-triggered exception, not a repeal of the general hospitality command.
χαίρειν (greeting formula, withheld)	अभिवादन	नमस्ते (“I bow to the divine within you” — imports Advaitic premise)	Absolute forbidden substitution for this specific instruction; native speaker review mandated given honor/shame and social-greeting sensitivities.
μισθός (reward)	पुरस्कार	फल / कर्म-फल (automatic karma-fruit)	Reuse of established baseline fence (works_of_the_law, fruit_of_the_spirit precedent); brief note recommended.
ἔργον (works)	काम	कर्म (merit-accumulation cosmology)	Reuse of established baseline काम-not-कर्म convention, extended without modification.
κυρία (lady, address)	प्रिय बहन / आदरणीय बहन	प्रभु-rooted forms (would conflate with the Critical Lordship term κύριος/प्रभु)	Mandatory translator note flagging the shared Greek root to prevent accidental use of a deity-implying term for a mundane social honorific.
ἐκλεκτή (elect, address-level)	चुनी हुई	Full soteriological election exposition (baseline परमेश्वर का चुनाव, Romans 9-11)	Tonal fence, not a lexical one: same root permitted, but register must stay at the level of a warm epistolary compliment, not a doctrinal treatise.

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3. Transliteration vs. Paraphrase Decisions

2 John’s proper nouns and set greeting formulas are already fixed by the baseline (यीशु, मसीह, आमीन, इस्राएल not applicable here, etc.) and require no new decision. The letter’s distinctive vocabulary, however, presents several genuine transliteration-vs-paraphrase choices:

Term	Option A: Transliterate	Option B: Paraphrase/Compound	Decision	Rationale
ἀντίχριστος	एन्टीक्राइस्ट (loanword transliteration)	मसीह-विरोधी (transparent Hindi compound)	Compound (B)	A transliteration would be opaque to readers and would forfeit the chance to make the term’s meaning (“opposed to Christ”) self-evident on the page; the compound also avoids importing any unrelated connotation a loanword might acquire. Established already in the term registry.
χαίρειν (withheld greeting)	नमस्ते (culturally dominant, but see §2.2)	अभिवादन / नमस्कार (paraphrase into a neutral descriptive term)	Paraphrase (B)	Transliterating the Greek greeting itself is not viable (it is not a proper noun); the real choice is between two existing Hindi greeting words, and the theologically loaded one (नमस्ते) must be avoided in favor of the neutral one.
ἀββά-style intimacy terms	N/A — not present in 2 John	N/A	Not applicable	2 John contains no Aramaic loanword analogous to Abba; noted for completeness since the baseline documents such a case elsewhere.
κυρία (lady)	कुरिया / कीरिया (transliteration)	प्रिय बहन / आदरणीय बहन (paraphrase as honorific)	Paraphrase (B)	A transliteration would be meaningless to a Hindi reader and would not carry the honorific social force the Greek vocative carries; paraphrase preserves function while a mandatory note prevents confusion with प्रभु.
πρεσβύτερος (elder, self-designation)	प्रेस्बिटर (transliteration)	प्राचीन (existing Hindi church-office term)	Existing term (B)	प्राचीन is already the standard Hindi Christian rendering for this office; no transliteration is needed or advisable.
διδαχή (teaching, as a technical term)	दिदाखे (transliteration)	मसीह की शिक्षा (descriptive phrase)	Descriptive phrase (B)	The concept requires the qualifying genitive “of Christ” to function doctrinally; a bare transliteration would lose this and risk being read as a generic loanword for “doctrine” untethered to the letter’s Christological anchor.

General principle applied: 2 John introduces no case where transliteration is the safer option over an existing or compound Hindi term. This mirrors, but sharpens, the baseline’s own general preference for meaning-bearing renderings over loanwords except where a proper noun or already-fixed liturgical form (आमीन, यीशु, मसीह) is involved. The one place a loanword was seriously considered and rejected (ἀντίχριστος) confirms this letter’s vocabulary is best served by transparent Hindi compounding rather than transliteration, precisely because its distinctive terms (antichrist, teaching-of-Christ, going-ahead) all carry meaning that must be visible to the reader, not opaque.

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4. Ranked List of Highest-Risk Ambiguities

Ranked by combined severity (doctrinal centrality × likelihood of collision × difficulty of correction once mistranslated):

1. देहधारण vs. अवतार (Incarnation) — Rank 1. This letter’s entire definition of heresy (v.7) is denial of Christ’s real, permanent incarnation. अवतार is the unmarked, idiomatic Hindi word most translators or readers would reach for; if it is ever used, the antichrist-marking heresy becomes textually indistinguishable from orthodox confession. Absolute forbidden substitution; mandatory theologian review on every occurrence; highest-stakes decision in the book.

2. आगे बढ़ जाना vs. उन्नति करना (Going ahead of the teaching) — Rank 2. The verse’s entire rhetorical force depends on “going ahead” being condemned rather than praised, which inverts the default positive valence of progression-language in Hindi religious registers (guru-transcendence, mārga-advancement). A translator working from ordinary linguistic instinct, without the mandatory note, would very plausibly select a positively-connoted verb and thereby reverse the verse’s meaning.

3. सत्य’s anchoring to apostolic content vs. Sat-Chit-Ānanda’s impersonal cosmic absolute — Rank 3. Because सत्य is unavoidable (it is the correct BSI term) and cannot be replaced without losing Johannine consistency, the risk cannot be eliminated by word-choice alone; it can only be managed by a mandatory, sustained translator note across every occurrence (1:1×2, 2, 3, 4), making this a high-maintenance rather than high-substitution risk.

4. घर में ग्रहण करना vs. अतिथि देवो भवः (Hospitality restriction) — Rank 4. The instruction’s force depends on readers understanding it as a narrow, doctrinally-triggered exception; without careful framing, it risks being received either as generalized rudeness toward all guests (violating a near-sacred cultural norm) or as softened into meaninglessness by translators uncomfortable with the restriction’s severity. Requires combined theologian and native-speaker review.

5. मसीह की शिक्षा vs. मसीह की व्यवस्था (Teaching of Christ vs. Law of Christ) — Rank 5. A cross-curriculum conflation risk rather than a single-passage collision: because Galatians’ baseline already fixes मसीह की व्यवस्था for a related-but-distinct referent (νόμος, the love-command), any drift toward using व्यवस्था here — or शिक्षा there — would blur two theologically distinct Pauline/Johannine categories across a learner’s cumulative curriculum experience.

6. अभिवादन vs. नमस्ते (Withheld greeting) — Rank 6. Lower doctrinal centrality than ranks 1-5 but high social-friction risk: नमस्ते’s devotional premise (“the divine within you”) is culturally pervasive enough that even careful translators may default to it in casual paraphrase or oral teaching, despite the written glossary’s correct choice of अभिवादन.

7. मसीह-विरोधी vs. Kalki-avatāra-adjacent apocalyptic reading — Rank 7. Lower likelihood than ranks 1-6 (the compound itself is reasonably safe) but the doctrinal stakes if misapplied are severe: a teacher or reader importing an eschatological Kalki-figure framework onto मसीह-विरोधी would relocate the term from “present doctrinal opponent, defined by denial of the incarnation” to “a single future cosmic antagonist,” diluting the letter’s pastoral urgency that such deceivers are already active (v.7, present tense).

8. भरमानेवाला vs. माया/भ्रम (Deceiver) — Rank 8. Real but comparatively contained risk: the collision is with a philosophical concept (illusion) rather than a devotional or ritual practice, making it easier to correct with a single clarifying note than ranks 1, 2, or 4.

9. पुरस्कार vs. फल/कर्म-फल (Reward) — Rank 9. Lowest risk among the flagged items because it reuses an already-well-documented, already-successful baseline fence (works_of_the_law, fruit_of_the_spirit); the pattern-recognition cost for future translators is low.

10. जगत vs. संसार (World) — Rank 10. Lowest-ranked flagged ambiguity: जगत is already BSI-precedented for Johannine κόσμος, and the residual Advaitic phenomenal-world resonance is a soft one requiring only a brief awareness note, not an absolute prohibition.

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5. Verse-by-Verse Coverage Ledger (Full-Book Confirmation)

Verse(s)	Load-bearing content	Status
1:1	πρεσβύτερος, ἐκλεκτή, κυρία, τέκνα, ἀλήθεια	Covered — §1.1, §2.2, Matrix rows for elder/elect_lady/kyria_address/children
1:2	ἀλήθεια, μένω	Covered — §1.1, §1.4
1:3	χάρις, ἔλεος, εἰρήνη, θεός, πατήρ, Ἰησοῦς, Χριστός, υἱός, ἀλήθεια, ἀγάπη	Covered — reused baseline trinitarian-greeting terms (registry grace, mercy, peace, god, father, jesus, messiah, son_of_god); no new gap. Explicitly noted as reviewed with zero new risk beyond baseline documentation.
1:4	χαρά, τέκνα, ἀλήθεια, ἐντολή, περιπατέω	Covered — §1.1, joy entry
1:5	κυρία, ἐντολή, ἀγάπη, ἐντολὴ καινή, ἀπ’ ἀρχῆς	Covered — §1.1, §1.4
1:6	ἀγάπη, περιπατέω, ἐντολή, ἀπ’ ἀρχῆς	Covered — §1.1, §1.4
1:7	πλάνος, κόσμος, ὁμολογέω, Ἰησοῦν Χριστὸν ἐρχόμενον ἐν σαρκί, σάρξ, ἀντίχριστος	Covered — §1.2, core passage anchor, §4 ranks 1, 3, 7, 8, 10
1:8	μισθός, ἔργον	Covered — §1.4, §2.2
1:9	διδαχὴ τοῦ Χριστοῦ, προάγω, μένω, θεός, πατήρ, υἱός	Covered — §1.4, core passage anchor, §4 rank 2, 5
1:10	λαμβάνειν εἰς οἰκίαν, χαίρειν, διδαχή	Covered — §1.3, core passage anchor, §4 rank 4, 6
1:11	κοινωνέω, ἔργον, πονηρός, χαίρειν	Covered — §1.3, core passage anchor
1:12	χαρά (ἐχάρην)	Covered — joy entry, no new gap beyond §1.1
1:13	ἐκλεκτή, ἀδελφή, τέκνα	Covered — §2.2 (elect), sister entry (low risk, no gap)

All thirteen verses reviewed; no verse contributes vocabulary outside the scope already analyzed in §1-§4 above. The letter’s load-bearing vocabulary is concentrated almost entirely within the core passage (1:4-11), consistent with its selection as the theological anchor for this curriculum, but the epistolary frame (1:1-3, 12-13) has been confirmed reviewed rather than silently skipped.

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6. Summary of Required Downstream Actions

1. Carry forward §1’s four doctrine-matrix strategies unchanged into Phase 1 Step 13 (doctrinal fidelity review) for formal adjudication and translation_memory.json version increment.
2. Confirm the absolute forbidden-substitution status of अवतार (for incarnation) and उन्नति करना (for going-ahead-of-the-teaching) in the curriculum’s AI translation requirements document (12_ai_translation_requirements.md equivalent for 2 John), extending — never contradicting — the baseline’s existing forbidden-substitution list.
3. Ensure every occurrence of the Rank 1-6 terms in §4 is flagged for mandatory human theologian (Ranks 1, 2, 3, 5) or combined theologian-plus-native-speaker (Rank 4) review, and Rank 6 for native speaker review, per the baseline’s escalation-routing convention.
4. Register the two genuine neologism/gap cases from §2.1 (मसीह-विरोधी; the “closed deposit” sense of teaching-of-Christ) explicitly as new coinages, not selections among pre-existing options, in the doctrine risk registry documentation.

This document extends, and in no place contradicts, the Romans/Galatians baseline Language Package. All baseline-reused terms are treated here as locked; all newly analyzed terms are offered for Step 13 doctrinal fidelity adjudication.