Core Glossary
Core Glossary — 2 Thessalonians (English/Greek → Hungarian)
This glossary extends, and never contradicts, the baseline Romans Language Package for Hungarian. Section A lists every baseline term reused unchanged in this curriculum. Section B lists new terms introduced by 2 Thessalonians, organized by chapter, with the same risk-tier conventions (Critical / High / Medium / Low) as the baseline bible_term_registry.json and doctrine_risk_registry.json.
All Section B terms must be added to translation_memory.json and bible_term_registry.json before Phase 2 segment translation begins (per the baseline’s Translation Memory Load and Enforcement Instructions), with doctrine_risk_registry.json updated correspondingly for the five curriculum doctrines.
Section A — Baseline Terms Reused Exactly (No Change)
| English term | Hungarian rendering (unchanged) | Risk | Occurrences in 2 Thessalonians |
|---|---|---|---|
| grace | kegyelem | Critical | 1:2, 1:12, 2:16, 3:18 |
| peace | béke | Medium | 1:2, 3:16 |
| faith | hit | High | 1:3, 1:4, 1:11, 2:13, 3:2 |
| love | — (new term, see Section B) | — | 1:3 |
| lord | Úr | Critical | throughout (1:1, 1:2, 1:7-9, 1:12, 2:1, 2:2, 2:8, 2:13-14, 2:16, 3:1, 3:3-5, 3:6, 3:12, 3:16, 3:18) |
| jesus | Jézus | Critical | 1:1, 1:2, 1:7-8, 1:12, 2:1, 2:14, 2:16, 3:6, 3:12, 3:18 |
| god | Isten | Critical | throughout |
| holy_spirit | Szentlélek | Critical | 2:13 |
| church | egyház | Medium | 1:1, 1:4 |
| glory | dicsőség | Medium | 1:9, 1:12, 2:14 |
| gospel | evangélium | High | 1:8, 2:14 |
| sanctification | megszentelődés | High | 2:13 |
| election | kiválasztás | Critical | 2:13 |
| calling | elhívás | Critical | 1:11 |
| called | elhívott | High | 2:14 |
| power_of_god | Isten ereje | Medium | 1:11 |
| salvation | üdvösség | Critical | 2:10, 2:13, 2:14 |
| holy | szent | Medium | 1:10 |
| saints | szentek | High | 1:10 |
| obedience_of_faith | hitből fakadó engedelmesség | High | conceptually present, 1:8 (“obey the gospel”) |
| exhort | buzdítani | Low | conceptually adjacent to 2:17’s “comfort” — see Section B distinction |
| father | Atya | Critical | 1:1, 1:2, 2:16 |
| thanksgiving | hálaadás | Low | 1:3, 2:13 |
No deviations from the baseline hungarian_term values are introduced anywhere in this curriculum’s analysis.
Section B — New Terms Introduced by 2 Thessalonians
From Chapter 1
| Term (English) | Original (Greek) | Hungarian rendering | Risk | Doctrine | Grounded reason / notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| love | ἀγάπη (agapē) | szeretet | Low | Perseverance under Persecution (supporting) | Standard, shared across all Hungarian Christian traditions. |
| endurance / perseverance | ὑπομονή (hypomonē) | állhatatosság | High | Perseverance under Persecution | Adjacent to the Romans baseline’s Critical “Assurance of Salvation” doctrine (Reformed perseverance-of-the-saints vs. Catholic ongoing uncertainty). Must describe the Thessalonians’ observed endurance without resolving whether such endurance is fruit confirming prior election (Reformed) or meritorious cooperation (Catholic). Recurs 1:4; 3:5. |
| persecutions / afflictions | διωγμοί, θλίψεις | üldözések, szorongattatások | Medium | Perseverance under Persecution | Standard vocabulary; low ambiguity, but must retain force of real, external hostility. |
| righteous judgment (“it is just…“) | δίκαιον παρὰ θεῷ, κρίσις δικαία | igazságos Istennél / igazságos ítélet | High | God’s Righteous Judgment | Shares root with baseline Critical term “igazság” (righteousness); must keep judicial-fairness sense distinct from forensic-justification sense to avoid cross-contaminating the Romans justification debate. |
| vengeance / retribution | ἐκδίκησις (ekdikēsis) | megtorlás / igazságos elszámolás | High | God’s Righteous Judgment | Must convey impersonal judicial justice, not personal vindictiveness, while not softening the passage’s genuine severity. Rejected alternative: “bosszú” (too personally vindictive-sounding). |
| revelation (of Christ) | ἀποκάλυψις (apokalypsis) | megjelenés / kinyilatkoztatás | Medium | The Day of the Lord (supporting) | Synonymous with the parousia/Day-of-the-Lord complex; must stay lexically linked to ch.2 vocabulary. |
| eternal destruction | ὄλεθρος αἰώνιος (olethros aiōnios) | örök pusztulás / örök kárhozat | High | God’s Righteous Judgment | Shared, non-divisive doctrine across Hungarian traditions, but High risk due to doctrinal weight; must not be softened toward a temporal or reformative punishment. |
| glorified | ἐνδοξασθῆναι (endoxasthēnai) | megdicsőíttetni | Medium | The Day of the Lord (supporting) | Builds on Reused baseline “dicsőség.” |
| worthy of the calling | ἀξιώσῃ τῆς κλήσεως | méltóvá tegyen az elhívásra | Critical | Perseverance under Persecution / (reuses baseline Divine Calling doctrine) | Must not imply calling is earned by worthy conduct, in either the Reformed or Catholic direction; governed by baseline “calling” entry. |
| work of faith | ἔργον πίστεως (ergon pisteōs) | hit cselekedete/munkája | High | Perseverance under Persecution | Adjacent to baseline “obedience_of_faith” fault line; must be faith’s own fruit, not a separate meritorious contributing cause. |
From Chapter 2 (Core Passage 2:1–12, plus 2:13–17)
| Term (English) | Original (Greek) | Hungarian rendering | Risk | Doctrine | Grounded reason / notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| coming / parousia | παρουσία (parousia) | eljövetel | High | The Day of the Lord | Must retain full technical eschatological force; keep lexically linked across 2:1, 2:8, 2:9. |
| our being gathered together | ἐπισυναγωγή (episynagōgē) | egybegyűlés | Medium | The Day of the Lord | Corporate gathering, not private individual removal. |
| the Day of the Lord | ἡ ἡμέρα τοῦ κυρίου (hē hēmera tou kyriou) | az Úr napja | High | The Day of the Lord | Central anchor term of the whole curriculum; must not be confused with liturgical “Lord’s Day” (Sunday); terminologically fixed across all recurrences. |
| has come / is present | ἐνέστηκεν (enestēken) | elközelgett / máris itt van | Medium | The Day of the Lord | Perfect tense — “has already arrived,” not merely “is near”; the entire 2:3-12 correction depends on this distinction. |
| the apostasy / the rebellion | ἀποστασία (apostasia) | hitehagyás | High | The Man of Lawlessness | Hungarian religious history includes mutual Catholic–Reformed accusations of “hitehagyás”; Paul’s future, singular, climactic apostasy must not be read as a live confessional charge against either tradition. Rejected alternative: Károli’s “szakadás” (too easily confused with ecclesiastical schism). |
| the man of lawlessness | ὁ ἄνθρωπος τῆς ἀνομίας (ho anthrōpos tēs anomias) | a törvénytelenség embere | Critical | The Man of Lawlessness | Historic Hungarian Reformed confessional tradition has, at points, identified this figure/“Antichrist” language with the Papacy institutionally; Catholic tradition rejects this identification entirely. Must render Paul’s own prophetic description of a future individual without embedding either the historic Protestant polemical identification or a reading dismissive of its confessional seriousness. Every occurrence (2:3-10) requires human theologian review. |
| the son of destruction | ὁ υἱὸς τῆς ἀπωλείας (ho huios tēs apōleias) | a kárhozat fia | Medium | The Man of Lawlessness | Standard Hebraic idiom, parallel to Judas (John 17:12); low ambiguity beyond retaining the construction. |
| the temple of God | ναὸς τοῦ θεοῦ (naos tou theou) | Isten temploma | Medium | The Man of Lawlessness | Exegetically debated (literal rebuilt temple vs. the Church); Hungarian rendering must remain neutral between literal and figurative readings; dispensational futurism is a minority reading in both major Hungarian traditions and should not be imported as settled. |
| the restrainer / that which restrains | τὸ κατέχον / ὁ κατέχων (to katechon / ho katechōn) | a visszatartó [erő/személy] | Medium | The Man of Lawlessness | Hungarian’s lack of grammatical gender allows one noun to cover both the impersonal (v.6) and personal (v.7) references without forcing premature identification; do not resolve Paul’s own deliberate ambiguity in translation. |
| the mystery of lawlessness | μυστήριον τῆς ἀνομίας (mystērion tēs anomias) | a törvénytelenség titka | High | The Man of Lawlessness | ”Titok” must retain Paul’s technical sense of a hidden reality being progressively unveiled, not a generic secret or puzzle. |
| the appearing of his coming | ἐπιφάνεια τῆς παρουσίας (epiphaneia tēs parousias) | eljövetelének megjelenése | High | The Day of the Lord | Both eschatological nouns must be retained (not collapsed to one word); Paul’s rhetorical stacking emphasizes the Day’s climactic, visible character. |
| the working of Satan | ἐνέργεια τοῦ σατανᾶ (energeia tou satana) | a Sátán munkája/ereje | High | The Man of Lawlessness | Satan as direct, personal empowering agent, not an impersonal evil influence — consistent with the baseline’s insistence on personal spiritual agency (cf. Holy Spirit). |
| power, signs, and false wonders | δύναμις, σημεῖα, τέρατα ψεύδους | erő, jelek és hazug csodák | High | The Man of Lawlessness | Must not be weakened into “tricks/illusions”; text’s force depends on these being genuinely compelling, deceptive precisely because outwardly indistinguishable from true signs. |
| the love of the truth | ἀγάπη τῆς ἀληθείας (agapē tēs alētheias) | az igazság szeretete | High | God’s Righteous Judgment | Not mere cognitive assent; the refusal in view is a failure to affectionately receive the gospel, not only a factual error. |
| a strong delusion / working of error | ἐνέργεια πλάνης (energeia planēs) | a megtévelyedés ereje | Critical | God’s Righteous Judgment | States that God himself actively sends this delusion; must be handled with the same rigor as Romans 9’s hardening language and Romans 1:24-28 in the baseline — preserving active divine judicial agency without forcing either strict-reprobation or synergistic-softening readings. Human theologian review required on every occurrence. |
| believe the lie | πιστεῦσαι τῷ ψεύδει | higgyenek a hazugságnak | High | God’s Righteous Judgment | Definite article specifies the climactic lie (the lawless one’s self-deification claim), not lies generally. |
| be judged / condemned | κριθῶσιν (krithōsin) | megítéltessenek / kárhoztassanak | Critical | God’s Righteous Judgment | Climactic forensic-judgment verdict term of the core passage; must preserve declared-verdict sense shared across Hungarian traditions, resisting any softening to a merely descriptive “suffer consequences.” |
| took pleasure in unrighteousness | εὐδοκήσαντες τῇ ἀδικίᾳ | gyönyörködtek a hamisságban | Medium | God’s Righteous Judgment | Retain the intensified sense of delight/approval, not neutral wrongdoing. |
| God chose [you] | εἵλατο ὁ θεός (heilato ho theos) | Isten kiválasztott [titeket] | Critical | (reuses baseline Election doctrine) | Apply baseline election notes unchanged; pastoral use here (comfort amid persecution) should guide tone without resolving the Calvinist/Catholic systematic question. Human theologian review required. |
| belief of the truth | πίστει ἀληθείας (pistei alētheias) | az igazságban való hit | High | God’s Righteous Judgment (contrast term) | Direct positive counterpart to 2:10-12’s rejection of the truth. |
| the obtaining of glory | περιποίησις δόξης (peripoiēsis doxēs) | dicsőség elnyerése | Medium | The Day of the Lord (supporting) | Chains together calling, gospel, and glory (all baseline terms) into a single soteriological statement. |
| stand firm and hold fast the traditions | στήκετε καὶ κρατεῖτε τὰς παραδόσεις | álljatok meg, és tartsátok meg a hagyományokat | Critical | Standing Firm in the Traditions | See full entry below (shared with 3:6). |
| the traditions | παραδόσεις / παράδοσις (paradoseis / paradosis) | hagyományok / hagyomány | Critical | Standing Firm in the Traditions | The single most consequential term introduced by this curriculum. 2 Thessalonians 2:15 and 3:6 are frequently cited in Catholic apologetics for the authority of Sacred Tradition (Szenthagyomány) as jointly authoritative with Scripture (per Trent), while historic Hungarian Reformed sola scriptura conviction holds that the apostolic oral tradition referenced here was itself subsequently and fully inscripturated, leaving no ongoing extra-biblical authoritative tradition. Must render Paul’s own first-century instruction to retain his just-delivered apostolic teaching (oral and written) without embedding either the Catholic Magisterial-Tradition framework or the Reformed Scripture-alone-collapse framework as the text’s own stated meaning. Human theologian review required at every occurrence, with rigor equal to the baseline’s treatment of “kegyelem,” “megigazulás,” and “kiválasztás.” |
| comfort your hearts | παρακαλέσαι τὰς καρδίας | vigasztalja meg szíveteket | Low | (supporting) | Shares root with baseline “buzdítani” (exhort) but functions as “comfort” here; do not force one Hungarian word to cover both senses. |
From Chapter 3
| Term (English) | Original (Greek) | Hungarian rendering | Risk | Doctrine | Grounded reason / notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| the word of the Lord | ὁ λόγος τοῦ κυρίου | az Úr szava/beszéde | Medium | (supporting; ties to gospel/mission) | Builds on Reused baseline “evangélium”/“misszió” concepts. |
| deliver from wicked men | ῥύσεται ἀπὸ ἀνθρώπων πονηρῶν | gonosz emberektől szabadítson meg | Low | Perseverance under Persecution (supporting) | Standard vocabulary. |
| the steadfastness of Christ | ἡ ὑπομονὴ τοῦ Χριστοῦ | Krisztus állhatatossága | High | Perseverance under Persecution | Same fault-line notes as ch.1’s ὑπομονή entry apply; additionally, the genitive is ambiguous (subjective: Christ’s own endurance modeled / objective: endurance directed toward Christ’s coming) — record both readings per baseline Ambiguity Handling rules. |
| we command | παραγγέλλομεν | megparancsoljuk | Medium | Standing Firm in the Traditions (supporting) | Must retain directive/authoritative force, not softened to a suggestion. |
| withdraw / keep away from | στέλλεσθαι ἀπό | elhúzódni / kerülni | Medium | Standing Firm in the Traditions (supporting) | Firm church-discipline sense; avoid over-reading as formal excommunication unless textually warranted. |
| walking disorderly | ἀτάκτως περιπατοῦντος | rendetlenül élő | Medium | Perseverance under Persecution (supporting) | Concrete symptom of the eschatological over-excitement corrected throughout the letter. |
| the tradition which they received | τὴν παράδοσιν ἣν παρέλαβον | a hagyomány, amelyet tőlünk kaptak | Critical | Standing Firm in the Traditions | Same term-family as 2:15; identical Critical-risk treatment required — see full entry above. |
| to work / labor | ἐργάζεσθαι | dolgozni | Low | (supporting) | Addresses eschatological idleness specifically, not a general economic principle divorced from context. |
| busybodies | περιεργαζομένους | haszontalanul foglalatoskodó / másokéba ártó | Low | (supporting) | Preserve Greek wordplay (ἐργαζόμενοι vs. περιεργαζόμενοι) where natural; do not force an artificial pun. |
| do not grow weary in doing good | μὴ ἐκκακήσητε ἀγαθοποιοῦντες | ne csüggedjetek el a jó cselekvésében | Low | Perseverance under Persecution (supporting) | General pastoral exhortation. |
| admonish as a brother | νουθετεῖτε ὡς ἀδελφόν | mint testvért figyelmeztessétek | Low | (supporting) | Balances discipline with familial warmth, per baseline’s warm-register guidance. |
| the Lord of peace | ὁ κύριος τῆς εἰρήνης | a békesség Ura | Critical | (governed by baseline Lordship of Christ doctrine) | Must retain the exclusive, titular force of “Úr” established in baseline; not a merely descriptive “a lord who brings peace.” |
| the sign in every letter | τὸ σημεῖον ἐν πάσῃ ἐπιστολῇ | jel minden levelemben | Low | (supporting) | Authentication device; resolves 2:2’s concern about a possibly forged letter. |
Risk Summary for New Terms (Section B)
| Risk | Count | Requires |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | 8 (man of lawlessness; working of error/God-sent delusion; be judged/condemned; God chose [you]; stand firm/hold fast the traditions; the traditions [2:15]; the tradition [3:6]; the Lord of peace) | Human theologian review, every occurrence |
| High | 14 | Human theologian review |
| Medium | 15 | Native speaker review |
| Low | 11 | Automated review sufficient |
Note on the two sharpest new fault lines introduced by this curriculum, beyond those already documented in the Romans baseline:
- “The Man of Lawlessness” (a törvénytelenség embere) — collides with historic Hungarian Reformed identification of Antichrist-type figures with the Papacy, versus Catholic rejection of that identification.
- “The Traditions” (a hagyományok / a hagyomány) — collides directly with the Catholic doctrine of Sacred Tradition as jointly authoritative with Scripture versus Reformed sola scriptura conviction that apostolic oral tradition was fully inscripturated; this is arguably the single most doctrinally load-bearing lexical choice in this entire curriculum, on par with the baseline’s treatment of “kiválasztás” (election) and “megigazulás” (justification).
Both require Phase 2 escalation rules identical in stringency to the baseline’s existing Critical-tier escalation rules for grace, justification, and election.
Critical Risk Terms
Grace
Approved rendering: kegyelem
Transliteration: charis
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: kegyelem mint érdemek által gyarapítható, szentségek közvetítette adomány (tridenti értelmezés)
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Appears in both the opening greeting (1:2, 1:12) and closing benediction (2:16, 3:18); the Reformed monergistic-irresistible-grace vs. Catholic infused-merit-cooperated-grace tension remains equally live and must not be resolved either way.
Lord
Approved rendering: Úr
Transliteration: kyrios
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs pervasively throughout 2 Thessalonians; must always convey exclusive, supreme lordship. See ‘day_of_the_lord’ and ‘lord_of_peace’ entries for compound-title occurrences requiring the same exclusive force.
Jesus
Approved rendering: Jézus
Transliteration: Iēsous
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.
God
Approved rendering: Isten
Transliteration: theos
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: θεός
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Must never be substituted with a sect-specific divine name (e.g., Jehovah’s Witness ‘Jehova’ substitution pattern) — see forbidden substitutions in 12_ai_translation_requirements.md.
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: Szentlélek
Transliteration: pneuma hagion
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs at 2:13 as the agent of sanctification; must remain personal, divine third Person of the Trinity, never rendered as an impersonal force.
Father
Approved rendering: Atya
Transliteration: patēr
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Original: πατήρ
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged (1:1, 1:2, 2:16).
Election
Approved rendering: kiválasztás
Transliteration: eklogē / heilato
Doctrine: Effectual Calling and Election (Pastoral Application)
Rejected alternatives: kiválasztás, mely emberi együttműködés nélkül értelmezhetetlen (szinergista olvasat kényszerítése), kiválasztás mint szabad akarat nélküli, vak végzet (fatalista félreolvasás)
Original: ἐκλογή / εἵλατο
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Concept underlies 2:13’s ‘God chose you’ (see ‘god_chose’ entry). The sharpest internal Hungarian doctrinal fault line (Reformed double predestination vs. Catholic synergism) remains live; here used pastorally for comfort amid persecution, not abstract argument — the pastoral tone must not silently resolve the systematic question.
Calling
Approved rendering: elhívás
Transliteration: klēsis
Doctrine: Effectual Calling and Election (Pastoral Application)
Rejected alternatives: ellenállhatatlan elhívás mint kizárólagos érvényes olvasat, katolikus szinergizmus kizárásával
Original: κλῆσις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs at 1:11 (‘worthy of his calling’ — see ‘worthy_of_the_calling’); must not assume the Reformed technical ‘irresistible calling’ as the only lexical option, nor the Catholic synergistic alternative.
Salvation
Approved rendering: üdvösség
Transliteration: sōtēria / sōthēnai
Doctrine: Salvation
Original: σωτηρία / σωθῆναι
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs negatively at 2:10 (‘so as to be saved’) and positively at 2:13-14; the Reformed perseverance-of-the-saints/Catholic ongoing-uncertainty contrast remains equally live, sharpened because 2:10-14 juxtaposes those ‘perishing’ and those ‘being saved’ in one sustained argument.
Worthy Of The Calling
Approved rendering: méltóvá tegyen az elhívásra
Transliteration: axiōsē tēs klēseōs
Doctrine: Effectual Calling and Election (Pastoral Application)
Original: ἀξιώσῃ τῆς κλήσεως
Category: Salvation
New term. Governed by the ‘calling’ entry (Critical). Must not be read, in either the Reformed or Catholic direction, as implying calling is earned or increased by worthy conduct (1:11). Human theologian review required.
Day Of The Lord
Approved rendering: az Úr napja
Transliteration: hē hēmera tou kyriou
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Rejected alternatives: a Krisztus napja (Textus Receptus-based variant reading, rejected in favor of critical-text ‘az Úr’), végítélet napja (too narrowly negative, loses vindication dimension)
Original: ἡ ἡμέρα τοῦ κυρίου
Category: Eschatology
CRITICAL: the theological anchor term of this entire curriculum. Must be kept terminologically distinct from ‘Úrnapja’ (the standing Hungarian Catholic compound proper noun for the Feast of Corpus Christi) — always render as the three separate words ‘az Úr napja’ with the definite article, never compounded or abbreviated. Also distinct from ordinary Hungarian church usage of the phrase for Sunday worship. The perfect-tense claim corrected in 2:2 (‘has come,’ not merely ‘is near’) must be preserved precisely.
Man Of Lawlessness
Approved rendering: a törvénytelenség embere
Transliteration: ho anthrōpos tēs anomias
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Rejected alternatives: a bűn embere (Textus Receptus variant ‘ἁμαρτίας’, rejected in favor of critical-text ‘ἀνομίας’), Antikrisztus (imports John’s distinct terminology and its own separate identification history prematurely)
Original: ὁ ἄνθρωπος τῆς ἀνομίας
Category: Eschatology
CRITICAL: the single most historically loaded phrase in this book for a Hungarian audience. Historic Hungarian Reformed confessional tradition has at points identified this figure and related ‘Antichrist’ language with the institution of the Roman Papacy; Catholic tradition rejects this identification entirely and reads it as a future individual. Must render Paul’s own prophetic description without embedding either the historic Protestant polemical identification or a reading dismissive of its confessional seriousness. Every occurrence (2:3-10) requires human theologian review.
Working Of Error
Approved rendering: a megtévelyedés ereje
Transliteration: energeia planēs
Doctrine: Divine Judicial Hardening (the Sent Delusion)
Rejected alternatives: erős csalódás (too subjective/passive-sounding, loses judicial-active sense)
Original: ἐνέργεια πλάνης
Category: Judgment
CRITICAL: states that God himself actively sends this delusion (2:11) upon those who rejected the truth. Must be handled with the same rigor as the Romans baseline’s Critical hardening texts (Romans 9; Romans 1:24-28), preserving active divine judicial agency without forcing either strict-Reformed unconditional-reprobation or Catholic synergistic ‘mere permission’ as the text’s own stated meaning. Render with an active verb (Isten… küldi rájuk), not a permissive gloss (‘megengedi’). Human theologian review required on every occurrence.
Be Judged
Approved rendering: megítéltessenek / kárhoztassanak
Transliteration: krithōsin
Doctrine: God’s Righteous Judgment
Rejected alternatives: csak következményeket szenvedjenek (too descriptive, loses forensic verdict sense)
Original: κριθῶσιν
Category: Judgment
CRITICAL: the passage’s climactic judgment-verdict term (2:12); must preserve the judicial/forensic, declared-verdict sense shared identically by Catholic and Reformed Hungarian traditions regarding final judgment. Human theologian review required.
God Chose
Approved rendering: Isten kiválasztott [titeket]
Transliteration: heilato ho theos
Doctrine: Effectual Calling and Election (Pastoral Application)
Original: εἵλατο ὁ θεός
Category: Salvation
CRITICAL: directly invokes the Romans baseline’s Critical ‘kiválasztás’ doctrine (2:13), here applied pastorally as comfort amid persecution rather than as abstract argument; must not be forced into either full Calvinist double-predestination systematics or full Catholic synergistic systematics. Human theologian review required.
Stand Firm Hold Fast Traditions
Approved rendering: álljatok meg, és tartsátok meg a hagyományokat
Transliteration: stēkete kai krateite tas paradoseis
Doctrine: Standing Firm in the Traditions
Original: στήκετε καὶ κρατεῖτε τὰς παραδόσεις
Category: Tradition
CRITICAL: the direct textual anchor of the Standing Firm in the Traditions doctrine (2:15). See ‘traditions’ entry for the full grounded reasoning shared by both occurrences (2:15 and 3:6).
Traditions
Approved rendering: hagyományok / hagyomány
Transliteration: paradoseis / paradosis
Doctrine: Standing Firm in the Traditions
Rejected alternatives: tanítás (under-translates παράδοσις, loses the specific ‘handed down/received’ transmission sense), örökség (imports inheritance-language already doing separate theological work in the Romans baseline’s adoption doctrine)
Original: παραδόσεις / παράδοσις
Category: Tradition
CRITICAL: the single most consequential term introduced by this curriculum, on par with the baseline’s ‘kiválasztás’ and ‘megigazulás.’ 2 Thessalonians 2:15 and 3:6 are frequently cited Catholic apologetic proof-texts for the authority of Sacred Tradition (Szenthagyomány) as jointly authoritative with Scripture per the Council of Trent, while historic Hungarian Reformed sola scriptura conviction holds the apostolic oral tradition referenced here was itself subsequently and fully inscripturated, leaving no ongoing extra-biblical authoritative tradition. Must render Paul’s own first-century instruction to retain his just-delivered apostolic teaching (oral and written) without embedding either systematic framework as the text’s own stated meaning. Human theologian review required at every occurrence (2:15; 3:6).
Tradition Received
Approved rendering: a hagyomány, amelyet tőlünk kaptak
Transliteration: tēn paradosin hēn parelabon
Doctrine: Standing Firm in the Traditions
Original: τὴν παράδοσιν ἣν παρέλαβον
Category: Tradition
CRITICAL: same term-family as 2:15 (3:6); requires identical Critical-risk treatment — see ‘traditions’ entry for the full grounded reasoning.
Lord Of Peace
Approved rendering: a békesség Ura
Transliteration: ho kyrios tēs eirēnēs
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: egy békét hozó úr (merely descriptive, loses titular exclusivity)
Original: ὁ κύριος τῆς εἰρήνης
Category: Christology
CRITICAL: governed by the baseline ‘lord’ entry; must retain the exclusive, titular force of ‘Úr’ established across the whole Language Package (3:16), not merely a descriptive ‘a lord who happens to bring peace.‘
High Risk Terms
Gospel
Approved rendering: evangélium
Transliteration: euangelion
Doctrine: Gospel
Original: εὐαγγέλιον
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. In 2 Thessalonians 1:8 and 2:14, must convey the specific apostolic proclamation of Christ crucified/risen, kept distinct from the false ‘report…as if from us’ feared in 2:2, which this letter itself treats as a competing, illegitimate message.
Faith
Approved rendering: hit
Transliteration: pistis
Doctrine: Faith
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged (1:3, 1:4, 1:11, 2:13, 3:2).
Sanctification
Approved rendering: megszentelődés
Transliteration: hagiasmos
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: ἁγιασμός
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs at 2:13 (‘chosen…through sanctification of the Spirit’); keep Romans’ Spirit-driven-transformation sense distinct from the Reformed ‘third use of the law’ and Catholic sacramental-participation systematic framings.
Called
Approved rendering: elhívott
Transliteration: klētos
Doctrine: Effectual Calling and Election (Pastoral Application)
Original: κλητός
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs at 2:14 in the gospel-calling chain (elhívás > evangélium > dicsőség).
Saints
Approved rendering: szentek
Transliteration: hagioi
Doctrine: Sainthood
Rejected alternatives: szentek mint kizárólagosan kanonizált, közbenjárásra kért személyek (katolikus olvasat)
Original: ἅγιοι
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs at 1:10 (‘when he comes to be glorified in his saints’); must retain the corporate all-believers sense, not a Catholic canonized-elite reading, while not dismissing the seriousness of Catholic saint-veneration piety for Catholic-background readers.
Obedience Of Faith
Approved rendering: hitből fakadó engedelmesség
Transliteration: hypakoē pisteōs
Doctrine: Obedience of Faith
Rejected alternatives: törvény szerinti engedelmesség, hit nélkül
Original: ὑπακοὴ πίστεως
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Conceptually present at 1:8 (‘do not obey the gospel’).
Endurance
Approved rendering: állhatatosság
Transliteration: hypomonē
Doctrine: Perseverance under Persecution
Rejected alternatives: türelem (too passive), kitartás (too secular/achievement-oriented)
Original: ὑπομονή
Category: Perseverance
New term, adjacent to the Romans baseline’s Critical ‘Assurance of Salvation’ doctrine. Must describe the Thessalonians’ observed endurance (1:4; 3:5) without silently deciding whether it is fruit confirming prior sovereign election (Reformed reading) or meritorious cooperation contributing to final salvation (Catholic reading). Flag for human theologian review wherever it occurs.
Righteous Judgment
Approved rendering: igazságos Istennél / igazságos ítélet
Transliteration: dikaion para theō / krisis dikaia
Doctrine: God’s Righteous Judgment
Original: δίκαιον παρὰ θεῷ / κρίσις δικαία
Category: Judgment
New term family. Shares the δίκαιος root with the Romans baseline’s Critical ‘igazság’/‘megigazulás’ word family; the judicial-fairness sense (1:5-6) must be kept distinct from the forensic-standing-by-faith sense already load-bearing from Romans, so Hungarian readers do not import the justification debate into this judgment context.
Vengeance
Approved rendering: megtorlás / igazságos elszámolás
Transliteration: ekdikēsis
Doctrine: God’s Righteous Judgment
Rejected alternatives: bosszú (too personally vindictive-sounding)
Original: ἐκδίκησις
Category: Judgment
New term. Must communicate impersonal judicial justice (1:8) without softening the passage’s genuine severity into arbitrary cruelty.
Eternal Destruction
Approved rendering: örök pusztulás / örök kárhozat
Transliteration: olethros aiōnios
Doctrine: God’s Righteous Judgment
Original: ὄλεθρος αἰώνιος
Category: Judgment
New term. Shared, non-divisive final-judgment doctrine across Hungarian Catholic and Reformed traditions, but High risk given the doctrine’s weight (1:9); must not be softened into a temporal or reformative punishment.
Work Of Faith
Approved rendering: hit cselekedete/munkája
Transliteration: ergon pisteōs
Doctrine: Perseverance under Persecution
Original: ἔργον πίστεως
Category: Faith
New term. Adjacent to the baseline’s ‘obedience_of_faith’ fault line; must be rendered as faith’s own fruit (1:11), not a separate meritorious contributing cause.
Parousia
Approved rendering: eljövetel
Transliteration: parousia
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Rejected alternatives: parúzia (academic loanword, not newspaper-editorial reading level)
Original: παρουσία
Category: Eschatology
New term. Must retain full technical eschatological force (2:1, 2:8, 2:9), kept lexically linked across all occurrences, and not softened into a vague ‘arrival.‘
Apostasy
Approved rendering: hitehagyás
Transliteration: apostasia
Doctrine: Love of the Truth versus Deception
Rejected alternatives: szakadás (Károli-tradition rendering, rejected as too easily confused with ecclesiastical schism)
Original: ἀποστασία
Category: Eschatology
New term. Hungarian religious history includes centuries of mutual Catholic-Reformed accusations of ‘hitehagyás’/‘elpártolás a hittől’; Paul’s singular, future, climactic referent (2:3) must not be read as a live confessional charge redirectable at either Hungarian communion today.
Restrainer
Approved rendering: a visszatartó [erő/személy]
Transliteration: to katechon / ho katechōn
Doctrine: The Restrainer and the Mystery of Lawlessness
Rejected alternatives: explicit identification with Rómát, a Szentlelket, or az Egyházat (rejected — resolves Paul’s own deliberate ambiguity)
Original: τὸ κατέχον / ὁ κατέχων
Category: Eschatology
New term. Hungarian’s lack of grammatical gender allows a single noun to cover both the impersonal-force sense (2:6, neuter) and the personal-agent sense (2:7, masculine) without forcing a premature identification. Must not be resolved into any specific systematic candidate within the translation itself.
Mystery Of Lawlessness
Approved rendering: a törvénytelenség titka
Transliteration: mystērion tēs anomias
Doctrine: The Restrainer and the Mystery of Lawlessness
Rejected alternatives: misztérium (loanword, carries Catholic sacramental-liturgical connotations)
Original: μυστήριον τῆς ἀνομίας
Category: Eschatology
New term. ‘Titok’ (2:7) must retain Paul’s technical sense of a hidden reality being progressively unveiled, not a generic secret or puzzle.
Appearing Of His Coming
Approved rendering: eljövetelének megjelenése
Transliteration: epiphaneia tēs parousias
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Rejected alternatives: epifánia (loanword, tied to the liturgical Feast of the Epiphany, Jan 6, a different referent), collapsing to a single noun (loses Paul’s rhetorical stacking)
Original: ἐπιφάνεια τῆς παρουσίας
Category: Eschatology
New term. Both eschatological nouns must be retained (2:8), not collapsed into a single word; this stacking is Paul’s own rhetorical emphasis on the Day of the Lord’s climactic, visible character.
Working Of Satan
Approved rendering: a Sátán munkája/ereje
Transliteration: kat’ energeian tou satana
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness’s Satanic Counterfeit Power
Original: κατ’ ἐνέργειαν τοῦ σατανᾶ
Category: Eschatology
New term. Must preserve Satan as a direct, personal empowering agent (2:9), not an impersonal evil influence, consistent with the baseline’s insistence on personal spiritual agency for the Holy Spirit.
Power Signs False Wonders
Approved rendering: erő, jelek és hazug csodák
Transliteration: pasē dynamei kai sēmeiois kai terasin pseudous
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness’s Satanic Counterfeit Power
Rejected alternatives: trükkök/illúziók (weakens the genuinely compelling, deceptive force of 2:9)
Original: πάσῃ δυνάμει καὶ σημείοις καὶ τέρασιν ψεύδους
Category: Eschatology
New term. Must not be weakened into ‘tricks’ or ‘illusions’; the text’s force depends on these being compellingly real-seeming, which is why 2:10-11 says they succeed in deceiving.
Love Of The Truth
Approved rendering: az igazság szeretete
Transliteration: hē agapē tēs alētheias
Doctrine: God’s Righteous Judgment
Rejected alternatives: ismerte az igazságot (flattens to cognition only, loses affective sense)
Original: ἡ ἀγάπη τῆς ἀληθείας
Category: Judgment
New term. Must not be flattened to mere intellectual knowledge (2:10); the text specifically names love/affection, not mere cognition, as what was refused.
Believe The Lie
Approved rendering: higgyenek a hazugságnak
Transliteration: pisteusai tō pseudei
Doctrine: God’s Righteous Judgment
Original: πιστεῦσαι τῷ ψεύδει
Category: Judgment
New term. The definite article’s specificity (the climactic lie, not lies generally) should be preserved through context (2:11).
Belief Of The Truth
Approved rendering: az igazságban való hit
Transliteration: pistei alētheias
Doctrine: Salvation
Original: πίστει ἀληθείας
Category: Faith
New term. Direct positive counterpart to 2:10-12’s rejection of the truth; builds on reused baseline ‘hit.‘
Steadfastness Of Christ
Approved rendering: Krisztus állhatatossága
Transliteration: hē hypomonē tou Christou
Doctrine: Perseverance under Persecution
Original: ἡ ὑπομονὴ τοῦ Χριστοῦ
Category: Perseverance
New term, reuses ch.1’s ‘állhatatosság’ with an added Christological dimension. The genitive is ambiguous (3:5) — subjective (endurance Christ himself modeled) vs. objective (endurance directed toward Christ’s coming); record both readings per the baseline’s Ambiguity Handling rules, do not silently resolve.
Medium Risk Terms
Church
Approved rendering: egyház
Transliteration: ekklēsia
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Original: ἐκκλησία
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged (1:1, 1:4, addressed to ‘the church of the Thessalonians’).
Glory
Approved rendering: dicsőség
Transliteration: doxa
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: δόξα
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged (1:9, 1:12, 2:14). Feeds into new terms ‘glorified’ and ‘obtaining_of_glory’ below.
Power Of God
Approved rendering: Isten ereje
Transliteration: dynamis (theou)
Doctrine: Power of God for Salvation
Original: δύναμις (θεοῦ)
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs at 1:11.
Holy
Approved rendering: szent
Transliteration: hagios
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: ἅγιος
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs at 1:10 in ‘his saints’ and underlies 2:13’s sanctification language.
Peace
Approved rendering: béke
Transliteration: eirēnē
Doctrine: Peace with God through Christ
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged (1:2, 3:16). See ‘lord_of_peace’ for the compound-title occurrence at 3:16.
Persecutions Afflictions
Approved rendering: üldözések, szorongattatások
Transliteration: diōgmoi, thlipseis
Doctrine: Perseverance under Persecution
Original: διωγμοί, θλίψεις
Category: Perseverance
New term. Standard vocabulary; ‘szorongattatás’ must retain hostile external pressure, not soften to mere hardship (1:4, 1:6).
Revelation
Approved rendering: megjelenés / kinyilatkoztatás
Transliteration: apokalypsis
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Rejected alternatives: apokalipszis (loanword, popular sense drifted toward cataclysmic disaster)
Original: ἀποκάλυψις
Category: Eschatology
New term. Synonymous with the parousia/Day-of-the-Lord complex (1:7); must remain lexically linked to chapter 2’s eschatological vocabulary cluster.
Glorified
Approved rendering: megdicsőíttetni
Transliteration: endoxasthēnai
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: ἐνδοξασθῆναι
Category: Eschatology
New term. Builds on reused ‘dicsőség’ (1:10, 1:12); passive — glory is received, not self-generated.
Gathered Together
Approved rendering: egybegyűlés
Transliteration: episynagōgē
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: ἐπισυναγωγή
Category: Eschatology
New term. Must preserve the corporate, gathered-together sense (2:1), avoiding a term suggesting private individual removal only.
Has Come
Approved rendering: elközelgett / máris itt van
Transliteration: enestēken
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Rejected alternatives: közel van (softens the perfect tense to mere proximity, undermining Paul’s own correction)
Original: ἐνέστηκεν
Category: Eschatology
New term. The false teaching corrected in 2:2 claimed the Day had already begun, not merely that it was approaching; the whole argument of 2:3-12 depends on preserving this perfect-tense distinction.
The Lawless One
Approved rendering: a törvénytelen
Transliteration: ho anomos
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Original: ὁ ἄνομος
Category: Eschatology
New term. Shortened title (2:8) for the man of lawlessness; governed by the man_of_lawlessness entry’s Critical-risk notes.
Son Of Destruction
Approved rendering: a kárhozat fia
Transliteration: ho huios tēs apōleias
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Original: ὁ υἱὸς τῆς ἀπωλείας
Category: Eschatology
New term. Standard Hebraic idiom parallel to Judas (John 17:12); retain the ‘son of X’ construction (2:3) rather than flattening to ‘destined for destruction.‘
Self Exaltation
Approved rendering: önmagát Isten fölé emelő
Transliteration: hyperairomenos
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Rejected alternatives: arrogáns/büszke (too mild, loses self-deifying force)
Original: ὑπεραιρόμενος
Category: Eschatology
New term. Must preserve the self-deifying, blasphemous force (2:4), echoing Isaiah 14/Daniel 11.
Temple Of God
Approved rendering: Isten temploma
Transliteration: naos tou theou
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Original: ναὸς τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Eschatology
New term. Exegetically debated (a future literal rebuilt temple vs. the Church, 2:4); the Hungarian rendering must remain neutral between literal and figurative readings, since dispensational futurism is a minority position in both major Hungarian traditions.
Took Pleasure In Unrighteousness
Approved rendering: gyönyörködtek a hamisságban
Transliteration: eudokēsantes tē adikia
Doctrine: God’s Righteous Judgment
Original: εὐδοκήσαντες τῇ ἀδικίᾳ
Category: Judgment
New term. Must retain the intensified sense of delight/approval (2:12), not mere neutral wrongdoing, to preserve the moral-responsibility emphasis.
Obtaining Of Glory
Approved rendering: dicsőség elnyerése
Transliteration: peripoiēsis doxēs
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: περιποίησις δόξης
Category: Eschatology
New term. Chains together calling, gospel, and glory (2:14) — all baseline terms — into a single soteriological statement.
Word Of The Lord
Approved rendering: az Úr szava/beszéde
Transliteration: ho logos tou kyriou
Doctrine: Gospel
Original: ὁ λόγος τοῦ κυρίου
Category: Church
New term. Ties to reused baseline ‘evangélium’/‘misszió’ concepts (3:1).
We Command
Approved rendering: megparancsoljuk
Transliteration: parangellomen
Doctrine: Apostolic Authority and Command
Rejected alternatives: javasoljuk (softens the directive force to a mere suggestion)
Original: παραγγέλλομεν
Category: Tradition
New term. Must retain directive/authoritative force (3:4, 3:6, 3:10, 3:12) without over-juridicizing the letter’s otherwise warm pastoral register.
Withdraw
Approved rendering: elhúzódni / kerülni
Transliteration: stellesthai apo
Doctrine: Church Discipline and Order
Original: στέλλεσθαι ἀπό
Category: Church
New term. Church-discipline directive (3:6); must be firm but not connote formal excommunication proper, a heavier distinct category in both Catholic canon law and Reformed church order, unless the text’s own scope clearly extends that far.
Walking Disorderly
Approved rendering: rendetlenül élő
Transliteration: ataktōs peripatountos
Doctrine: Perseverance under Persecution
Original: ἀτάκτως περιπατοῦντος
Category: Perseverance
New term. The concrete, practical symptom of the eschatological over-excitement corrected throughout the letter (3:6, 3:11; cf. 2:2).
Low Risk Terms
Exhort
Approved rendering: buzdítani
Transliteration: parakaleō
Doctrine: Mutual Edification
Original: παρακαλέω
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Same Greek root appears at 2:17 with a comfort-sense; kept as a distinct entry there (‘comfort_hearts’) rather than forcing one Hungarian word to cover both senses.
Thanksgiving
Approved rendering: hálaadás
Transliteration: eucharistia
Doctrine: Thanksgiving
Original: εὐχαριστία
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged (1:3, 2:13).
Love
Approved rendering: szeretet
Transliteration: agapē
Doctrine: Mutual Love and Encouragement
Original: ἀγάπη
Category: Faith
New term. Standard, shared vocabulary across Hungarian Christian traditions (1:3, 3:13-15). No confessional divergence.
The Opponent
Approved rendering: az ellenszegülő
Transliteration: ho antikeimenos
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Original: ὁ ἀντικείμενος
Category: Eschatology
New term. Direct continuation of the man-of-lawlessness figure’s defining posture (2:4).
Demonstrating Himself As God
Approved rendering: bizonyítva/hirdetve önmagáról, hogy Isten
Transliteration: apodeiknynta heauton hoti estin theos
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Original: ἀποδεικνύντα ἑαυτὸν ὅτι ἔστιν θεός
Category: Eschatology
New term. Emphasizes public, deliberate demonstration (2:4), not private delusion.
Comfort Hearts
Approved rendering: vigasztalja meg szíveteket
Transliteration: parakalesai tas kardias
Doctrine: Mutual Love and Encouragement
Original: παρακαλέσαι τὰς καρδίας
Category: Faith
New term. Shares its root with reused baseline ‘buzdítani’ (exhort), but functions here as comfort/console (2:17) rather than urge.
Good Work And Word
Approved rendering: minden jó cselekedet és beszéd
Transliteration: ergon agathon kai logon agathon
Doctrine: Mutual Love and Encouragement
Original: ἔργον ἀγαθὸν καὶ λόγον ἀγαθόν
Category: Faith
New term. Practical outworking of the comfort prayed for in 2:17; comprehensive scope of deed and speech together.
Deliver From Wicked Men
Approved rendering: gonosz emberektől szabadítson meg
Transliteration: rhysetai apo anthrōpōn ponērōn
Doctrine: Perseverance under Persecution
Original: ῥύσεται ἀπὸ ἀνθρώπων πονηρῶν
Category: Perseverance
New term. Concrete prayer request tied to the Perseverance under Persecution doctrine (3:2).
Work Labor
Approved rendering: dolgozni
Transliteration: ergazesthai
Doctrine: Perseverance under Persecution
Original: ἐργάζεσθαι
Category: Perseverance
New term. Addresses eschatological idleness specifically (3:10-12), not a general economic principle divorced from context.
Busybodies
Approved rendering: haszontalanul foglalatoskodó / másokéba ártó
Transliteration: periergazomenous
Doctrine: Church Discipline and Order
Original: περιεργαζομένους
Category: Church
New term. Greek wordplay (ἐργαζόμενοι vs. περιεργαζόμενοι) (3:11); preserve the flavor in Hungarian where natural, without forcing an artificial pun.
Do Not Grow Weary
Approved rendering: ne csüggedjetek el a jó cselekvésében
Transliteration: mē ekkakēsēte agathopoiountes
Doctrine: Perseverance under Persecution
Original: μὴ ἐκκακήσητε ἀγαθοποιοῦντες
Category: Perseverance
New term. General pastoral exhortation connecting perseverance to daily faithfulness, not only persecution-survival (3:13).
Admonish As Brother
Approved rendering: mint testvért figyelmeztessétek
Transliteration: noutheteite hōs adelphon
Doctrine: Church Discipline and Order
Original: νουθετεῖτε ὡς ἀδελφόν
Category: Church
New term. Balances the sternness of church discipline (3:6, 3:14) with familial warmth (3:15), consistent with the baseline’s warm-relational-register guidance.
Sign In Every Letter
Approved rendering: jel minden levelemben
Transliteration: to sēmeion en pasē epistolē
Doctrine: Church Discipline and Order
Original: τὸ σημεῖον ἐν πάσῃ ἐπιστολῇ
Category: Church
New term. Paul’s autographic signature, an authentication device against forged letters; directly resolves the concern raised in 2:2 about a possibly forged letter (3:17).
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