Passage

Romans 2

• Glossary Term

  Sin

  HIGH RISK: the extremely common colloquial idiom 'che peccato!' ('what a shame/pity!', used for trivial disappointments) is an Italian instance of the pan-European sin-word-drift-to-pity pattern also documented for Dutch and Swedish, and arguably even more pervasively embedded in everyday Italian speech.

  ROM.2.6-11

• Doctrine

  Universal Human Accountability

  HIGH RISK: universal guilt before God is directly undercut if 'peccato' is read in its extremely common colloquial 'che peccato!' (what a shame) sense rather than culpable moral transgression.

  ROM.2.6-11