Passage
Romans 15
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Doctrine
Christ-Centered Ministry
Ministry done in Christ's name and power, not humanitarian service divorced from the gospel.
ROM.15.17-21
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Doctrine
Christian Fellowship
HIGH RISK: bare 'comunione' is heard first as the Eucharist, given how central First Communion is as a cultural rite of passage in Italy; 'fraterna' is required to redirect to koinonia.
ROM.15.24
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Glossary Term
Church
HIGH RISK: capitalized 'la Chiesa' denotes the global Catholic institution in a country where the Vatican is physically located and Catholic identity is deeply enmeshed with national culture — arguably the most institutionally loaded rendering of ekklesia in this batch.
ROM.15.26
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Doctrine
Church as God's People
HIGH RISK: 'la Chiesa' is about as institutionally loaded a rendering of ekklesia as exists in any language in this batch, given the Vatican's physical presence in Italy and Catholic identity's deep enmeshment with Italian national culture.
ROM.15.26
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Glossary Term
Covenant
'Alleanza' (used for Old/New Covenant, Antica/Nuova Alleanza) is more common in modern usage than the more contract-like 'patto', used in some Protestant translations.
ROM.15.12
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Glossary Term
David
Standard proper name form across all Italian traditions.
ROM.15.12
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Doctrine
Davidic Covenant
Requires OT background explanation; 'discendente di Davide' is the preferred modern rendering over the more literary 'stirpe di Davide'.
ROM.15.12
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Doctrine
Evangelism
In a nominally Catholic but rapidly de-churching culture, evangelism language must be framed as respectful proclamation and witness rather than pressure or proselytism.
ROM.15.20
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Glossary Term
Exhort
Context-sensitive between admonishing and encouraging senses.
ROM.15.2
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Glossary Term
Fellowship
HIGH RISK: bare 'comunione' is heard first as the Eucharist ('fare la Comunione', 'prima Comunione' — First Communion, a major Catholic childhood milestone deeply embedded in Italian culture), an even stronger version of the equivalent French risk.
ROM.15.24
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Doctrine
Fulfillment of Prophecy
Linear historical fulfillment (OT to NT); low OT literacy among biblically unchurched readers requires explicit cross-referencing.
ROM.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Gentiles
Carries the same pejorative 'uncivilized/irreligious' connotation as French 'païens'; 'genti' (peoples, echoing Latin gentes) is a gentler alternative in some translations.
ROM.15.7-12
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Doctrine
Gospel
Stable term shared across Catholic and evangelical Italian Bibles; the word itself is not disputed.
ROM.15.19-20
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Glossary Term
Gospel
Shared, stable term across the Catholic CEI translation and Protestant Diodati/Riveduta tradition.
ROM.15.19-20
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Glossary Term
Holy
Set apart for God and morally pure.
ROM.15.16
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Glossary Term
Holy Spirit
The personal third Person of the Trinity; no competing deity-concept risk in Italian culture.
ROM.15.16
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Doctrine
Inspiration of Scripture
Distinguish God-breathed Scripture from a purely historical-critical academic reading.
ROM.15.4
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Glossary Term
Intercession
HIGH RISK: Catholic Marian and saint intercession (rosary, novenas, shrine pilgrimage culture such as Padre Pio devotion) is an exceptionally strong and pervasive devotional category in Italian Catholicism, likely the single strongest pull toward a saints/Mary-intercession default reading of any language in this batch, rather than the Spirit's/Christ's unique heavenly intercession in Romans 8.
ROM.15.30-32
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Glossary Term
Israel
Contemporary Middle East politics make it easy for readers to conflate biblical Israel (the covenant people) with the modern nation-state; keep the referent historical/theological in this curriculum.
ROM.15.7-12
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Doctrine
Kingdom Mission
God's reign advancing through the gospel, not a political or cultural project.
ROM.15.12, ROM.15.18-21
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Glossary Term
Kingdom Of God
God's sovereign reign; distinguish from any political kingdom association.
ROM.15.12, ROM.15.18-21
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Glossary Term
Law
Capitalize as 'la Legge' for Torah/Mosaic law to distinguish from civil 'legge'.
ROM.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Messiah
The Anointed One fulfilling OT promise.
ROM.15.8-12
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Doctrine
Messianic Promise
The specific Jewish OT concept fulfilled exclusively in Jesus must not be flattened into a generic moral teacher figure.
ROM.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Mission
Italy has a significant Catholic missionary-sending history and a smaller evangelical mission-sending tradition; less acute postcolonial critique than France given Italy's more limited colonial history, though not entirely absent.
ROM.15.15-24
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Doctrine
Mission to the Nations
Italy's significant Catholic missionary-sending history and smaller evangelical mission-sending tradition inform this doctrine; less acute postcolonial critique than France given Italy's more limited colonial history.
ROM.15.15-24
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Doctrine
Mutual Edification
Building one another up in faith; no significant doctrinal risk.
ROM.15.2
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Doctrine
Prayer and Intercession
HIGH RISK: Catholic Marian and saint intercession (rosary, novenas, shrine pilgrimage) is an exceptionally strong and pervasive devotional category in Italy, the single strongest pull toward a saints/Mary-intercession default reading of any language in this batch.
ROM.15.30-32
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Glossary Term
Prophecy
God-inspired declaration.
ROM.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Prophet
God's spokesperson.
ROM.15.4
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Doctrine
Sanctification
The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy.
ROM.15.16
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Glossary Term
Sanctification
The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy.
ROM.15.16
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Glossary Term
Seed Of David
'Stirpe' (lineage/stock) is a fairly literary but still intelligible register in modern Italian, making this a comparatively lower-risk instance of the cross-language 'seed of David' register-drift pattern than in French, German, Dutch, or Swedish.
ROM.15.12
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Doctrine
Separation unto God's Service
Must not collapse into monastic withdrawal; biblical separation is devotion to God while remaining engaged in ordinary life.
ROM.15.16
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Doctrine
Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Requires historically aware handling given Italy's own Jewish community history and contemporary Middle East political sensitivity.
ROM.15.7-12