Passage
Romans 9
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Glossary Term
Abba
Aramaic term of intimacy preserved as 'Abba, Padre' across CEI and Protestant Italian translations (Romans 8:15).
ROM.9.4
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Glossary Term
Adoption
Bare 'adozione' defaults to the modern legal-procedural child-adoption process; 'filiale' recovers the full-son-status, full-inheritance sense.
ROM.9.4
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Doctrine
Adoption into God's Family
Full son-status with complete inheritance rights; bare 'adozione' risks the modern legal-procedural sense unless qualified.
ROM.9.4
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Glossary Term
Called
Context-sensitive: in 1:1 = called to apostleship; in 1:7 = called to be saints; in 8:28-30 = effectual calling to salvation.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Calling
HIGH RISK: 'vocazione' in Italian Catholic culture overwhelmingly connotes a call to priesthood or religious life, a live and salient category given Italy's dense concentration of Catholic religious orders.
ROM.9.11-12
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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.9.5
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Glossary Term
David
Standard proper name form across all Italian traditions.
ROM.9.5
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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.9.5
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Doctrine
Deity of Christ
CRITICAL: co-equal divine nature must not be softened into a merely divinely inspired human figure.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Divine Calling
HIGH RISK: Italian Catholic culture's dense concentration of clergy and religious orders makes 'vocazione' overwhelmingly connote priestly or religious-life calling, a strong risk of narrowing Paul's calling-of-every-believer language.
ROM.9.11-12
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Doctrine
Effectual Calling
'Elezione' is also the everyday word for political elections; Catholic theology's more synergistic (Thomistic) view of election also differs from Reformed-tradition assumptions a translator might otherwise import.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Election
HIGH RISK: 'elezione' is also the standard everyday word for political elections ('elezioni politiche'), risking a democratic-choice misreading.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Father
'Padre' is also the standard Italian title of address for a Catholic priest (e.g.
ROM.9.4
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Glossary Term
Glory
God's radiant presence and honor.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
God
Italy remains more religiously observant on paper (majority baptized Catholic) than several other languages in this batch, but Mass attendance and catechetical literacy have dropped sharply; a distinctively Italian version of the secularization gap, with strong nominal/cultural Catholic identity persisting alongside eroding lived theological literacy.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
Messiah
The Anointed One fulfilling OT promise.
ROM.9.5
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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.9.5
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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.9.5