Passage
Romans 3
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Doctrine
Faith
Personal trust in Christ; comparatively lower secular-flattening risk than French or Swedish cognates.
ROM.3.22-28
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Glossary Term
Faith
'Fede' also names the wedding ring ('la fede nuziale') and appears in legal/commercial idiom ('buona fede'); generally lower flattening risk than French or Swedish cognates since religious 'fede' remains fairly robust in Italian usage.
ROM.3.22-28
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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.3.21
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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.3.29-30
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Doctrine
Grace
Catholic sacramental grace and Waldensian/evangelical sola gratia are the same Italian word carrying different doctrinal freight; must always reinforce 'apart from merit'.
ROM.3.24
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Glossary Term
Grace
Same word used by Catholic and Waldensian/evangelical traditions, but with different doctrinal freight: Catholic catechesis ties grazia to sacramental mediation ('stato di grazia' maintained via confession); Waldensian/evangelical tradition holds sola gratia apart from sacramental mediation.
ROM.3.24
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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.3.29-30
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Glossary Term
Law
Capitalize as 'la Legge' for Torah/Mosaic law to distinguish from civil 'legge'.
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Prophecy
God-inspired declaration.
ROM.3.21
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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.3.23
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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.3.29-30
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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.3.23