Linguistic Gap Analysis — 2 Peter — English → Hungarian
Purpose
This document executes PRD Phase 1 Step 8 for the 2 Peter curriculum. It maps each of the seven curriculum doctrines to the Hungarian vocabulary available to render it, identifies where that vocabulary is missing (no established Hungarian Bible-tradition term exists) versus crowded (an established term exists but collides with a different, unrelated, or confusion-risking meaning already active in Hungarian religious or general usage), records the transliteration-vs-paraphrase decision for each borderline term, and ranks the letter’s highest-risk ambiguities for prioritized review routing in Phase 2. It extends, and must not contradict, the baseline Romans Language Package (translation_memory.json, bible_term_registry.json, doctrine_risk_registry.json) and the curriculum-specific 08_core_glossary.md and assets/bible_term_registry.json already produced for 2 Peter.
Method
For each of the seven curriculum doctrines, this analysis inventories:
- The Hungarian terms already available (baseline reuse) or newly proposed (2 Peter-specific) to carry the doctrine’s vocabulary.
- Structural weaknesses in the available Hungarian vocabulary — gaps (no natural equivalent), false friends (a term that looks right but imports the wrong sense), or crowding (an established Hungarian religious-register word already carries a different load).
- A recommended handling strategy for Phase 2 translators and reviewers.
This is followed by a consolidated missing-vocabulary/crowded-neighborhood inventory, a transliteration-vs-paraphrase decision table, and a ranked list of the letter’s highest-risk ambiguities.
A. Doctrine Vocabulary Matrix
1. The Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
| Available Hungarian terms | Weaknesses | Recommended strategy |
|---|
| próféta, prófécia (baseline reuse, Low risk) | None in isolation; low ambiguity as base lexemes | Reuse baseline terms without modification |
| prófétai szó/ige (prophetic word, High) | Compound must survive as a unit tying 1:19 back to 1:16-18’s eyewitness argument; a translator rendering it as a loose paraphrase risks severing Peter’s two-witness structure (apostolic testimony + prophetic Scripture) | Fix the compound phrase in translation memory; footnote the argumentative link at first occurrence (1:19) |
| az Írás próféciája (prophecy of Scripture, Critical) | Must align exactly with the baseline doctrine-registry label “a Szentírás ihletettsége” so the doctrine reads as one continuous concept across Romans and 2 Peter materials | Cross-reference explicitly in teaching notes; do not introduce a variant phrase |
| saját magyarázat (private interpretation, Critical) | Genuine Catholic/Reformed collision: KJV-derived “private interpretation” wording has been read by Catholic tradition as excluding interpretive authority outside the Magisterium, and by Reformed tradition as excluding any interpretive authority beyond the individual believer under Scripture. Hungarian has no neutral idiom that avoids this history | Translate the verse’s actual claim — prophetic origin, not reader authority — and add a mandatory teaching note stating the verse addresses where prophecy came from, not who may interpret it. Route to human theologian review at every occurrence |
| a Szentlélektől indíttatva / vitetve (carried along, Critical) | Two symmetric failure modes: dictation-only misreading (erases human author’s voice) and inspired-insight-only misreading (reduces the Spirit to passive assistance). Hungarian lacks a single verb that resolves both risks simultaneously | Use the “indíttatva/vitetve” (moved/borne) pairing to preserve the nautical wind-driven image; teaching note must state both the divine initiative and the retained human voice |
| mítoszok / kitalált mesék (myths, High) | “Mítosz” is a live, prestige loanword in Hungarian cultural and educational discourse (Greek mythology, “mondavilág” folk epic tradition) and can carry a complimentary, non-pejorative connotation absent from Peter’s usage | Prefer “kitalált mesék” (fabricated tales) in running text where the contrast with eyewitness testimony is doctrinally load-bearing; “mítoszok” may be retained parenthetically for register only |
| szemtanú (eyewitness, Low); felség/méltóság (majesty, Medium); tisztesség (honor, Low); a Felséges Dicsőség (the Majestic Glory, Critical) | Low-to-medium risk individually; the compound argument of 1:16-18 (eyewitness + divine voice + majesty) must remain a unified rhetorical unit, not fragment into separate loosely related claims | Translate 1:16-18 as a single argumentative unit in Phase 2 segment planning, not as isolated verses |
Doctrine-level gap: Hungarian has no single native theological term equivalent to the English technical phrase “verbal, plenary inspiration”; this must be conveyed through the combination of “a Szentlélektől indíttatva” + explanatory teaching note rather than a single lexical item. This is a missing-vocabulary case (see Section B).
2. Growing in Christian Virtue
| Available Hungarian terms | Weaknesses | Recommended strategy |
|---|
| erény (virtue/aretē, Medium); igyekezet (diligence, Low); önuralom (self-control, Medium); állhatatosság (steadfastness, Medium); testvéri szeretet (brotherly kindness, Low); szeretet (love/agapē, Medium); ismeret (general knowledge/gnōsis, Medium) | Individually low-medium risk; the doctrinal risk is structural: the virtue chain (1:5-7) is a cumulative list (“add to your faith…”), and Hungarian’s flexible word order can obscure the deliberate step-by-step accumulation rhetoric if each term is translated independently rather than as a connected chain | Translate 1:5-7 as a single structured unit; preserve the “ehhez pedig adjátok” (add to this) linking connective at every step so the cumulative logic survives |
| kegyesség (godliness/eusebeia, High) | Crowded neighborhood: near-homophone/near-homograph collision with “kegyelem” (grace, Critical baseline term). A careless reader or a rushed reviewer can visually or aurally conflate godliness (a human virtue-response) with grace (God’s unmerited gift), reversing the letter’s own grace→godliness causal direction (1:3) | Mandatory visual/phonetic distinction check at every occurrence of both terms in the same paragraph; flag for native-speaker proofing pass specifically for this pair |
| megtisztulás (cleansing, Medium); megszentelődés (sanctification, baseline High) | “Megtisztulás” (1:9, past-tense conversion-cleansing) and “megszentelődés” (baseline, ongoing process) must not be used interchangeably, or the letter’s implicit logical move — forgetting one’s past cleansing produces present spiritual blindness — is lost | Keep both terms distinct in translation memory; add a cross-reference note linking them without merging |
| szeplőtelen és feddhetetlen (spotless and blameless, Medium); szilárdság (firmness, Low); növekedik (grow, Low) | Standard, low-risk ethical-goal vocabulary | Reuse as proposed in 08_core_glossary.md |
Doctrine-level gap: No single Hungarian word captures “aretē” in its classical-Greek ethical-excellence sense (as opposed to modern “erény,” which now reads primarily as generic “virtue/moral goodness”); a brief historical-cultural gloss at first occurrence (1:3) is recommended rather than a new coinage.
3. False Teachers and Their Judgment
| Available Hungarian terms | Weaknesses | Recommended strategy |
|---|
| hamis próféták (false prophets, High); hamis tanítók (false teachers, High) | Low internal ambiguity; risk is contemporary application drift (readers mapping the term onto rival Hungarian denominations rather than the letter’s own referents) | Teaching note restricting application to the letter’s own historical/doctrinal referents (proto-gnostic/libertine teaching), not intra-Christian confessional rivalry |
| kárhozatos eretnekségek (destructive heresies, High) | Crowded neighborhood: “eretnekség” is saturated with Reformation-era Catholic-Protestant mutual-accusation history in Hungary; contemporary readers from either tradition may reflexively map the word onto the other tradition | Mandatory footnote at 2:1 clarifying the NT referent (destructive teaching arising within the professing church, not a confessional-identity label); avoid use of this term in any cross-tradition polemical framing within teaching materials |
| megvásárolt / megváltott (bought/redeemed, Critical) | Risk of softening into generic “üdvözült” (saved) losing the commercial redemption-price image central to 2:1’s argument (the false teachers deny the very Master who paid for them) | Preserve transactional imagery explicitly; do not substitute a non-commercial synonym |
| Uralkodó / Gazda (Master/despotēs, Medium); Úr (Lord/kyrios, Critical) | Hungarian has no single word carrying both “supreme ownership” (despotēs) and “supreme authority” (kyrios) separately the way Greek does; risk of collapsing the two titles into one Hungarian word, losing 2:1’s ownership emphasis | Maintain the two-title distinction in translation memory; do not substitute “Úr” for “Uralkodó/Gazda” even where stylistically tempting |
| a Tartaroszba taszította (cast into Tartarus, Medium) | Sole NT use of Greek mythological place-name vocabulary; Hungarian readers may associate it (incorrectly) with either classical-education Greek mythology as pure literary reference, or with unrelated Hungarian folk-afterlife concepts | Footnote clarifying this designates a real, Scripture-affirmed place/state of divine confinement, not endorsement of wider Greek cosmology nor equivalence with Hungarian folklore |
| kárhozat / pusztulás (destruction/apōleia, Critical); ítélet (judgment, High); istentelen (ungodly, High) | Two-register problem: “kárhozat” (eternal, forensic) vs. “pusztulás” (temporal ruin) must be selected per occurrence, not fixed to one Hungarian word throughout | Require context-check flag at each of 2:1, 2:3, 3:7, 3:16 before finalizing which register applies |
4. The Certainty of Christ’s Return
| Available Hungarian terms | Weaknesses | Recommended strategy |
|---|
| eljövetel (coming/parousia, Critical) | Hungarian “eljövetel” is a paraphrase, not a technical transliteration; some existing Hungarian devotional literature uses “eljövetel” loosely for any divine “coming” (including the Incarnation, cf. baseline’s incarnation doctrine), creating a risk of conflating Christ’s first coming with his promised return | Where ambiguity is possible, pair with a disambiguating modifier (“Krisztus második eljövetele” / “Christ’s second coming”) at first occurrence per document; keep bare “eljövetel” for subsequent occurrences once established in context |
| csúfolkodók (scoffers, Medium); hajnalcsillag (morning star, Medium) | “Hajnalcsillag” risks importing the separate Western “Lucifer” tradition (via the Vulgate’s “lucifer” rendering of Isaiah 14:12, later applied to Satan) if a reader’s prior exposure is to that tradition rather than to Revelation 22:16’s positive use | Explicit teaching note at 1:19 distinguishing this positive Christ-image from the unrelated Isaiah/Lucifer tradition; do not cross-reference Isaiah 14:12 in any teaching material for this term |
| Isten ereje (power of God, root, Medium/High) | Must remain distinguishable at 1:16 (“power and coming”) from the new term “isteni erő” (divine power, 1:3); both are legitimate but distinct senses | Enforce the baseline/new-term distinction already documented in 08_core_glossary.md; flag any segment where the two could be conflated |
5. The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment
| Available Hungarian terms | Weaknesses | Recommended strategy |
|---|
| az Úr napja (Day of the Lord, Critical) | Must function as a fixed eschatological title (capitalized, proper-noun-like) rather than a generic descriptive phrase (“a nap, amikor az Úr eljön”) | Lock as a fixed title in translation memory; do not vary phrasing across occurrences (3:10 and any future curriculum cross-references to the OT “Day of the LORD”) |
| elemek (elements/stoicheia, Medium) | Same Greek lexeme (stoicheia) is used elsewhere in the NT (Galatians 4, Colossians 2) for “elemental spiritual powers”; a Hungarian reader encountering both usages across different curricula could conflate physical-cosmos elements with spiritual powers | Footnote at 3:10 restricting sense to physical cosmic elements; flag for cross-curriculum consistency review if/when Galatians or Colossians materials are produced |
| felbomlik / megsemmisül (dissolved/destroyed, Medium); vízözön (flood, Low) | Low risk; standard vocabulary | Reuse as proposed |
| új egek és új föld (new heavens and new earth, Critical) | Risk of a wholly discontinuous “annihilation and replacement” reading versus the intended renewed-continuity reading; Hungarian “új” (new) is compatible with either sense on its own | Teaching note affirming renewed/transformed continuity with the present creation (paralleling Romans 8’s future-hope material already present in the baseline package), not ex-nihilo replacement |
6. Patience of God’s Timing
| Available Hungarian terms | Weaknesses | Recommended strategy |
|---|
| hosszútűrés / türelem (God’s patience/makrothymia, Critical) | Crowded neighborhood risk: “türelem” is common, low-register everyday Hungarian (“patience” in traffic, parenting, etc.); using it alone for God’s redemptive patience risks trivializing a doctrinally loaded term. “Hosszútűrés” is a more formal, KJV-tradition-adjacent compound reflecting the Greek’s “long” + “temper/passion” structure | Prefer “hosszútűrés” in the primary doctrinal text; reserve plain “türelem” for secondary/explanatory prose only, never as the sole rendering in a Critical-flagged verse (3:9, 3:15) |
| állhatatosság (steadfastness/hypomonē, ch. 1, Medium) | Must remain visibly distinct from “hosszútűrés” — one is the believer’s endurance under trial, the other is God’s own forbearance toward sinners; a translator collapsing both into one Hungarian word would erase the letter’s own distinction between human and divine patience | Enforce distinct translation-memory entries; flag any segment using “türelem” or “állhatatosság” interchangeably for review |
| megtérés (repentance/metanoia, High) | Catholic sacramental-confession (“gyónás”) association vs. Reformed direct-heart-turning emphasis; both traditions affirm “megtérés” as a word but load it with different implied mechanisms | Translate Peter’s stated claim (patience is for repentance) without specifying mechanism; do not gloss with either “gyónás” or “egyedül a szív megváltozása” as an implied definition |
| elveszni / elpusztulni (perish/apollymi, High) | Shares a root with “kárhozat/pusztulás” (apōleia); must be kept traceable to the letter’s broader judgment vocabulary rather than treated as an unrelated everyday verb | Cross-reference in translation memory notes |
7. Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption
| Available Hungarian terms | Weaknesses | Recommended strategy |
|---|
| isteni természet (divine nature/theia physis, Critical) | Highest-risk crowded neighborhood in the entire letter. Contemporary Hungarian popular culture (New Age, esoteric self-help literature, some post-communist-era spiritual-eclectic movements) actively circulates the phrase “isteni természetünk” / “bennünk lakozó isteniség” to mean innate human divinity or self-actualized godhood — a meaning fundamentally incompatible with 2 Peter’s own claim (moral/relational Christlikeness given by grace, not inherent divine essence) | Mandatory teaching note at every occurrence (only 1:4) explicitly rejecting the self-divinization reading; frame as shared orthodox ground across Catholic, Orthodox-influenced, and Reformed Hungarian readings (theosis-adjacent language exists in Eastern-influenced devotional literature, but 2 Peter’s own moral-transformation sense must be the anchor, not a fuller theosis systematic import). Route to human theologian review at every occurrence per 08_core_glossary.md §D |
| isteni erő (divine power, High) | Must remain distinct from baseline “Isten ereje” (power_of_god, gospel-advancing power, Romans 1:16) and from this letter’s own 1:16 use of “Isten ereje” for Christ’s parousia-power | Enforce three-way distinction: isteni erő (1:3, provision for godliness) vs. Isten ereje in Romans (1:16, gospel advance) vs. Isten ereje in 2 Peter 1:16 (Christ’s coming in power). Document explicitly in translator preflight notes |
| megismerés (epignōsis, Critical) vs. ismeret (gnōsis, Medium) | Crowded neighborhood: the Hungarian loanword “gnózis” carries heavy esoteric/historical-Gnostic-movement baggage; even though “megismerés” avoids the loanword itself, translators must actively resist any temptation to use “gnózis” or “gnosztikus” register vocabulary anywhere near this doctrine, given 2 Peter’s own historical setting as a polemic against proto-gnostic teaching | Absolute prohibition on the loanword “gnózis” anywhere in 2 Peter translation output; maintain the megismerés/ismeret distinction rigorously per 08_core_glossary.md |
| romlás (corruption/phthora, High); kívánság / gonosz kívánság (lust, Medium); részes / részesévé válik (partaker, Medium); ígéretek / ígéret (promises, Medium) | “Romlás” spans moral and physical decay senses in ordinary Hungarian (used for food spoilage as readily as moral ruin); risk of an unintentionally comic or bathetic register if handled carelessly | Confirm formal register at all three occurrences (1:4; 2:12, 19); avoid any context suggesting literal food/material spoilage collocations nearby in the same sentence |
B. Missing Vocabulary vs. Crowded Semantic Neighborhoods
B.1 Missing Vocabulary (no established Hungarian Bible-tradition equivalent; requires new coinage or compound)
| Concept | Gap description | Resolution adopted |
|---|
| ἐπίγνωσις vs. γνῶσις distinction | Hungarian, like English, tends to use one general word (“ismeret” or “tudás”) for “knowledge”; it has no inherited pair of theological terms distinguishing relational/salvific knowledge from general moral knowledge the way the Greek epignōsis/gnōsis pair does | New compound coinage: “megismerés” (epignōsis) vs. “ismeret” (gnōsis), fixed as a matched pair in translation memory (see 08_core_glossary.md) |
| θεία φύσις as shared, non-ontological moral transformation | No single Hungarian word conveys “sharing in God’s own moral character without ontological merger”; “isteni természet” alone is ontologically ambiguous | Resolved by mandatory paired teaching note, not by lexical substitution — a structural (not lexical) solution |
| ”Verbal, plenary inspiration” as a single term | No native Hungarian theological term exists (Hungarian systematic-theology vocabulary borrows the concept descriptively, not as a fixed compound) | Resolved via the verb phrase “a Szentlélektől indíttatva/vitetve” plus explanatory note rather than coining a new noun |
| δεσπότης as ownership-title distinct from κύριος | Hungarian “Úr” covers both authority-sense and address-sense; no separate inherited title exists for the “owner who purchased” nuance | Resolved by borrowing secular-register “Uralkodó/Gazda” and fixing it as a technical title distinct from “Úr” for this letter only |
| μακροθυμία as God’s own patience, distinct from human ὑπομονή | Hungarian “türelem” is a single everyday word covering both human and divine patience; no inherited formal/informal split exists | Resolved by preferring the more formal, less common “hosszútűrés” for the divine sense, reserving “türelem” for lower-stakes explanatory prose |
| Hungarian term | Doctrine | Collision risk | Fencing strategy |
|---|
| kegyesség | Growing in Christian Virtue | Near-homograph of “kegyelem” (grace); risk of doctrinal directional reversal (godliness mistaken for the ground of grace rather than its fruit) | Mandatory paired proofing check wherever both terms co-occur; never abbreviate either term |
| isteni természet | Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption | Collides with New Age/esoteric-eclectic “innate human divinity” discourse in contemporary Hungarian popular spirituality | Mandatory theologian-reviewed teaching note at every occurrence; never presented without it |
| mítoszok | Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture | Collides with the prestige, non-pejorative literary/educational sense of Greek and Hungarian folk mythology | Prefer “kitalált mesék” in doctrinally load-bearing running text |
| hajnalcsillag | Certainty of Christ’s Return | Collides with the historically separate Western “Lucifer” (Isaiah 14:12, Vulgate) tradition | Explicit disambiguating note; no cross-reference to Isaiah 14:12 |
| kárhozatos eretnekségek | False Teachers and Their Judgment | Collides with centuries of intra-Hungarian Catholic-Protestant mutual polemic | Mandatory footnote restricting the term to its NT referent; forbidden in any cross-tradition application within teaching materials |
| Tartarosz(ba taszította) | False Teachers and Their Judgment | Collides with Greek-mythology classical-education associations and, more remotely, generic Hungarian folk-afterlife imagery | Footnote affirming a real, Scripture-affirmed referent without endorsing wider Greek cosmology |
| gnózis (forbidden loanword, not adopted) | Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption / Reliability of Scripture | Would collide catastrophically with 2 Peter’s own anti-proto-gnostic polemical setting if ever used to render epignōsis/gnōsis | Absolute prohibition; not adopted anywhere in the glossary |
| elemek (stoicheia) | The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment | Collides with the distinct NT usage “elemental spiritual powers” (Galatians/Colossians), not present in this letter but present in the wider biblical corpus this curriculum library will eventually cover | Footnote restricting sense to the physical cosmos; flag for future cross-curriculum consistency |
C. Transliteration vs. Paraphrase Decisions
| Term | Original | Decision | Rationale |
|---|
| Abba | אַבָּא | Transliterate (baseline precedent, not present in 2 Peter but retained for cross-curriculum consistency) | Established baseline precedent; not reopened here |
| Amen, Alleluja | ἀμήν, ἀλληλουϊά | Transliterate (baseline precedent) | Established liturgical transliterations already fixed in the baseline system prompt |
| παρουσία (parousia) | Greek technical term | Paraphrase, not transliteration: “eljövetel” | A Hungarian transliteration (“parúzia”) exists in academic/theological literature but is unfamiliar to general lay readers at the target reading level (secondary-school proficiency, per baseline tone requirements); “eljövetel” is intelligible to the full Catholic-Reformed lay readership without specialized training |
| Σωτήρ (Sōtēr) | Greek title | Paraphrase: “Üdvözítő” | Fully lexicalized, established Hungarian Bible-tradition term across both major confessions; no transliteration warranted |
| Τάρταρος (Tartarus) | Greek mythological place-name | Transliterate: “Tartarosz” (as verb-derived phrase “a Tartaroszba taszította”) | No existing Hungarian Bible-tradition equivalent; the term is a proper noun unique to this one NT occurrence, and transliteration preserves its foreign, non-domesticated character, correctly signaling to the reader that this is a borrowed image rather than a native theological category — paired with a mandatory clarifying footnote |
| ἀρετή (aretē) | Greek ethical term | Paraphrase: “erény” | Fully naturalized in Hungarian ethical and theological vocabulary; transliteration would be unintelligible and unnecessary |
| δεσπότης (despotēs) | Greek title | Paraphrase: “Uralkodó / Gazda” | No Hungarian Bible tradition of transliterating this term (unlike “Tartarosz,” this is not a foreign proper noun but a common Greek title); paraphrase preserves meaning while remaining natural Hungarian |
| μεγαλοπρεπὴς δόξα (the Majestic Glory) | Circumlocution/title for God | Paraphrase, capitalized as a title: “a Felséges Dicsőség” | Functions as a name-substitute in the source text; Hungarian capitalization convention signals this status without requiring transliteration |
| ψευδοπροφῆται / ψευδοδιδάσκαλοι | Compound Greek terms | Paraphrase: “hamis próféták / hamis tanítók” | Fully transparent compound in Hungarian; transliteration would obscure rather than clarify meaning |
General principle applied: transliteration is reserved for (a) established liturgical/devotional forms already fixed by the Károli tradition and baseline package (Abba, Amen, Alleluja), and (b) genuinely untranslatable foreign proper nouns with no Hungarian theological equivalent (Tartarosz). All other terms — including technical-sounding Greek theological vocabulary (parousia, Sōtēr, despotēs) — are paraphrased into natural, dignified literary Hungarian consistent with the baseline’s reading-level target and its instruction to avoid academic jargon inaccessible to the lay Catholic-Reformed readership.
D. Ranked List of Highest-Risk Ambiguities in 2 Peter
Ranked by (a) doctrinal centrality to the seven curriculum doctrines, (b) severity of potential misreading, and (c) breadth of the Hungarian audience affected (Catholic majority, Reformed minority, or both).
- isteni természet (divine nature, 1:4) — Risk of self-divinization/New Age misreading affecting the entire readership regardless of confessional background; the single highest lexical-cultural risk in the letter. Human theologian review, every occurrence.
- saját magyarázat (private interpretation, 1:20) — Direct collision with the historic Catholic-Reformed interpretive-authority debate; any resolution in either direction misrepresents the verse’s actual (narrower) claim. Human theologian review, every occurrence.
- kiválasztás / elhívás pairing (election/calling, 1:10) — Recurrence of the baseline Romans 9-11 fault line (Reformed double predestination vs. Catholic synergism) inside a new epistle; risk of readers importing a fully developed system not present in this verse’s own argument. Human theologian review, every occurrence, per baseline precedent.
- hosszútűrés / türelem (God’s patience, 3:9, 15) — Risk of trivializing a Critical doctrine through everyday-register vocabulary, compounded by differing Reformed/Catholic implicit theories of what patience accomplishes. Human theologian review, every occurrence.
- megismerés vs. ismeret / gnózis exclusion (epignōsis vs. gnōsis, throughout ch. 1 and 3:18) — Structural risk of collapsing the letter’s own two-tier knowledge vocabulary, compounded by the absolute prohibition on the “gnózis” loanword given the letter’s anti-proto-gnostic setting. Theologian-reviewed glossary enforcement at every occurrence.
- a Szentlélektől indíttatva (carried along by the Spirit, 1:21) — Foundational verse for the doctrine of Scripture’s inspiration; dictation-only or insight-only misreadings each distort the doctrine in opposite directions. Human theologian review, every occurrence.
- kegyesség vs. kegyelem (godliness vs. grace) — Not a doctrinal collision but a live phonetic/orthographic hazard capable of reversing the letter’s grace→godliness causal argument if confused even once in teaching materials. Mandatory dedicated proofing pass, all occurrences.
- eljövetel (parousia, 1:16; 3:4, 12) — Risk of conflation with a generic or already-fulfilled “coming” (e.g., Incarnation) absent a disambiguating modifier at first use; central to the doctrine of the Certainty of Christ’s Return. Native speaker review with theologian sign-off at first occurrence per document.
- kárhozatos eretnekségek (destructive heresies, 2:1) — Not ambiguous in the text itself, but maximally exploitable for unintended contemporary confessional-polemical application within a mixed Catholic-Reformed Hungarian audience. Mandatory footnote; native speaker review.
- az Úr napja (Day of the Lord, 3:10) and új egek és új föld (new heavens and new earth, 3:13) — Lower internal ambiguity (no confessional fault line) but Critical doctrinal weight; chief risk is losing the fixed-title/renewed-continuity nuance through inconsistent phrasing across occurrences and future cross-curriculum materials. Native speaker review; translation-memory lock required.
E. Recommendations for Phase 2 Preflight
- Load this document alongside
08_core_glossary.md, the curriculum-specific assets/bible_term_registry.json, and the full baseline Romans Language Package before any 2 Peter segment translation begins.
- Apply the crowded-neighborhood fencing table (Section B.2) as an automated pre-submission check: flag any segment containing both members of a fenced pair (kegyesség/kegyelem; megismerés/ismeret near “gnózis”; isteni természet without its mandatory note) for mandatory review before acceptance.
- Apply the transliteration-vs-paraphrase table (Section C) as a fixed decision record; do not permit ad hoc reconsideration of any entry during Phase 2 without a formal translation-memory version increment and theologian sign-off.
- Route all ten ranked ambiguities (Section D) through the review tiers indicated; items 1–6 require human theologian review at every occurrence without exception, consistent with the baseline’s escalation-rule precedent for Romans 9–11 and the imputed-righteousness/election terms.
- Carry forward to
07_cultural_context_notes.md (or equivalent) the two culture-specific risk clusters most exposed by this analysis: (a) Hungarian esoteric/New Age discourse’s collision with “isteni természet,” and (b) Reformation-era “eretnekség” polemical residue’s collision with “kárhozatos eretnekségek.”