Linguistic Gap Analysis
Linguistic Gap Analysis — 3 John (English → Japanese)
Scope and Method
This analysis covers the entirety of 3 John — a single chapter, verses 1–14, in full. No verse is out of scope. Because the letter is short, the “full-book coverage” mandate is satisfied trivially: every verse has been reviewed for load-bearing vocabulary; verses contributing no new terms or doctrinal risk (e.g., the closing personal greetings of vv.13–14 beyond the “face to face” idiom and “peace” already logged) are noted explicitly below in the coverage table rather than silently omitted.
This document builds directly on 07_semantic_analysis.md, 08_core_glossary.md, and assets/bible_term_registry.json, and inherits the baseline Romans translation_memory.json and doctrine_risk_registry.json as governing authority. It does not re-adjudicate any baseline term (God, Church, Peace, Gentiles, Fellowship — see Part A of the Core Glossary). Its purpose is to organize the linguistic gap reasoning behind the term choices already registered: which doctrines have adequate Japanese vocabulary and which do not, which Japanese words are semantically “crowded” by competing traditions and require doctrinal fencing, which terms should be transliterated versus paraphrased, and which ambiguities in this letter carry the highest translation risk.
Full-chapter coverage table:
| Verses | New terms / doctrine contribution | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1:1–2 | Elder, beloved, love-in-truth, prosper, soul | Reviewed — full analysis below |
| 1:3–4 | Truth, brother(s), walk, children (spiritual) | Reviewed — full analysis below |
| 1:5–8 | Faithful (act), stranger, send forward, worthily, the Name, gentile/pagan outsider, church, God | Reviewed — full analysis below |
| 1:9–10 | Love of preeminence, receive/refuse, slander, wicked words, hinder, cast out, church | Reviewed — full analysis below |
| 1:11 | Imitate, good/evil (general and habitual), God | Reviewed — full analysis below (highest cumulative-risk verse in the letter) |
| 1:12 | True testimony, testify/testimony | Reviewed — full analysis below |
| 1:13–14 | Face-to-face idiom, hope (mundane), peace, friend(s) | Reviewed — no new doctrine-risk terms beyond idiom and baseline “peace”; noted explicitly as reviewed |
Part 1 — Doctrine Vocabulary Matrix
For each of the five curriculum doctrines, this matrix lists the available Japanese terms, their specific weaknesses in the Japanese linguistic/religious landscape, and the recommended translation strategy (word choice plus required teaching scaffolding).
1. Hospitality to Traveling Ministers
| Available Japanese terms | Weakness | Recommended strategy |
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| 旅人 (tabibito, “stranger/traveler,” for ξένος) | Japan’s omotenashi (おもてなし) hospitality culture is a genuine bridge concept, but it customarily operates within a known host-guest frame (an invited visitor, a paying customer) — not toward an unknown itinerant crossing the uchi-soto (内・外) insider/outsider boundary, which is precisely this term’s point. | Use 旅人 as the noun; introduce おもてなし explicitly as a bridge, not an equivalence — teaching must state that this hospitality specifically crosses the uchi-soto line for gospel partnership with people previously unknown. |
| 支える (sasaeru, “support,” for ὑπολαμβάνω) vs. 受け入れる (ukeireru, “receive/accept,” for ἐπιδέχομαι) | English “receive” flattens both Greek verbs into one word; Japanese must not do the same, or the letter’s structural contrast (Gaius’s right reception vs. Diotrephes’ wrongful refusal) collapses. | Reserve 支える exclusively for the positive material-support sense (Gaius, v.5–8) and 受け入れる exclusively for the receive/refuse-to-receive vocabulary around Diotrephes (v.9–10). Never swap. |
| 旅の支援をして送り出す (tabi no shien wo shite okuridasu, for προπέμπω) | Japan’s ceremonial 見送り (miokuri, formal platform/gate farewell bows) risks reducing this technical missionary-support term to a polite goodbye gesture with no material content. | Retain the full descriptive phrase rather than a single verb (e.g., never abbreviate to 見送る alone); teaching must state this denotes funding/provisioning onward travel, not a farewell ceremony. |
| 忠実な (chuujitsu na, for πιστός) | Strong resonance with Bushido loyalty ethics (忠, loyalty to a lord) and modern corporate loyalty culture; risks reframing Gaius’s hospitality as hierarchical loyalty-display rather than gospel-conviction faithfulness. | Retain 忠実な but pair with explicit teaching that the object of this faithfulness is the gospel/truth (v.3), not a superior figure — parallel to the baseline’s “obedience of faith” caution. |
| 協力者 (kyouryokusha, “co-worker,” for συνεργός) | Risk of collapsing into generic teamwork/volunteerism vocabulary with no gospel content. | Always qualify contextually as partnership specifically “for the truth” (v.8’s ἵνα… τῇ ἀληθείᾳ). |
Doctrine-level gap assessment: No missing vocabulary — Japanese has adequate resources (omotenashi culture, an established host/guest lexicon) to render every hospitality term. The risk is entirely one of fencing: preventing existing warm cultural concepts (omotenashi, on-giri-adjacent obligation) from silently substituting for the text’s specific theological content.
2. Imitating Good rather than Evil
| Available Japanese terms | Weakness | Recommended strategy |
|---|---|---|
| 見習う (minarau) vs. 真似る (maneru), for μιμέομαι | 真似る is the more common everyday word but carries strong “superficial/mindless copying” connotation (cf. 猿真似, “monkey imitation”), undermining the letter’s central ethical exhortation. | 見習う (or 倣う) mandated; 真似る is a forbidden substitution for this doctrine’s key verb. |
| 善（を行う）/ 悪（を行う） (zen/aku [wo okonau]), for ἀγαθοποιέω/κακοποιέω | Japan’s ethical vocabulary for 善 sits inside both Confucian virtue-cultivation and Buddhist karma/merit frameworks, where good deeds accumulate 功徳 (kudoku) that improves standing — the exact concept already forbidden for “grace” in the baseline package. Real risk that v.11’s “the one who does good is of God” is read as merit-earning. | Retain 善/悪 (no better lexical alternative exists) but require an explicit, non-optional teaching note at every occurrence: doing good is evidence/fruit of an existing relationship with God through Christ, never its cause — direct parallel to the baseline’s justification-by-faith clarification. |
| 悪 (aku, κακός) vs. よこしまな (yokoshima na, πονηρός) | Two distinct Greek “evil” words (general badness vs. actively malicious evil) both land in the same 悪 word-family in Japanese, erasing a nuance the original text preserves. | Accept the lexical collapse (no viable two-word Japanese distinction exists) but preserve the nuance through teaching commentary, not word choice. |
Doctrine-level gap assessment: No missing vocabulary, but this is the doctrine most vulnerable to the single deepest religious-collision risk in the letter (merit/kudoku), inherited structurally from the same collision already flagged Critical for “grace” in the baseline. Treat as High risk requiring theologian review at every occurrence of v.11’s doing-good/doing-evil contrast.
3. Church Leadership and Pride (Diotrephes)
| Available Japanese terms | Weakness | Recommended strategy |
|---|---|---|
| 長老 (chourou), for πρεσβύτερος | Risk of being heard as a generic village/clan elder (村の長老) or simply “an elderly person,” rather than a recognized apostolic-era pastoral office — the very office Diotrephes wrongfully disregards. | Retain established Christian term 長老 (cf. 長老派, “Presbyterian”); require a brief office-clarifying gloss at first occurrence in each teaching unit. |
| 自分が一番になりたがること (jibun ga ichiban ni naritagaru koto), for φιλοπρωτεύω | This is a true lexical gap (see Part 3 below): no single Japanese word exists, and Japan’s senpai-kohai seniority structures and corporate rank/title culture (肩書き) can make Diotrephes’ ambition read as admirable leadership drive rather than diagnosed sin. | Mandatory explicit glossary-box definition framing this phrase as sinful self-exaltation contrary to Christlike servant-leadership; never allow the phrase to stand without this framing note in teaching materials. |
| 追い出す (oidasu), for ἐκβάλλω | Same verb family used elsewhere in the NT for exorcism (“casting out demons”); also risks being read as a positive precedent for legitimate church discipline (cf. Matt 18, 1 Cor 5) rather than the letter’s condemned unilateral abuse of authority. | Retain 追い出す but require an unambiguous “negative example” framing note at every occurrence; never present without it. |
| 中傷する (chuushou suru), for φλυαρέω | Casual alternatives (悪口を言う, “badmouth”) would trivialize malicious, reputation-damaging false accusation into mere gossip. | Retain the more formal/serious 中傷する; reject casual alternatives. |
| 受け入れる (ukeireru), for ἐπιδέχομαι | Must remain visibly distinct from 支える (Gaius’s positive reception) — see Doctrine 1 above. | Cross-referenced; enforce the fencing rule from Doctrine 1. |
Doctrine-level gap assessment: One genuine lexical gap (φιλοπρωτεύω, a NT hapax legomenon with no inherited Japanese Bible-tradition rendering) plus two crowded-neighborhood risks (長老, 追い出す). This is the doctrine requiring the most net-new interpretive scaffolding in the curriculum, because Japan’s status/rank culture cuts directly against the text’s intended moral verdict.
4. Commendation of Faithful Witness (Demetrius)
| Available Japanese terms | Weakness | Recommended strategy |
|---|---|---|
| 証しする / 証し (akashi suru / akashi), for μαρτυρέω/μαρτυρία | Alternative 証言 (shougen) carries a legalistic, courtroom/scandal-reporting register from secular Japanese news usage, wrong tone for a warm pastoral commendation. | Retain 証し consistently; 証言 is a rejected alternative. |
| 真実な (shinjitsu na), for ἀληθής | Must visibly retain its word-family link to 真理 (established for ἀλήθεια), so the reader recognizes Demetrius’s “true testimony” as a direct instantiation of the letter’s governing “truth” theme. | Preserve the shinri/shinjitsu word-family pairing in every rendering; do not substitute an unrelated synonym for either term. |
Doctrine-level gap assessment: No missing vocabulary and no crowded-neighborhood collision of note beyond the register distinction (証し vs. 証言) already resolved. This is the lowest-risk of the five doctrines linguistically, though it still depends on the High-risk 真理/真実 word family being correctly anchored elsewhere (Doctrine 5).
5. Truth and Christian Fellowship
| Available Japanese terms | Weakness | Recommended strategy |
|---|---|---|
| 真理 (shinri), for ἀλήθεια | Standard vocabulary in Japanese Buddhist philosophy for an abstract, impersonal cosmic or enlightenment-truth (悟りの真理), attainable through practice — the opposite of a truth revealed by and identified with a person (cf. John 14:6). | Retain 真理 (no viable alternative exists) but require repeated, explicit anchoring to the person and gospel of Christ at every doctrinally weighty occurrence (vv.1, 3, 4, 8, 12); never let it stand as an unqualified abstract principle. |
| 愛 / 愛する (ai / aisuru), for ἀγάπη/ἀγαπάω | Contemporary Japanese 愛 usage is overwhelmingly romantic-love vocabulary (love songs, dramas, Valentine’s Day marketing); even though 恋 (koi) is the more narrowly romantic-longing term, 愛 itself is heavily colored by that register in everyday speech. | Retain 愛/愛する (established, no alternative) but pair every doctrinally significant occurrence — especially v.1’s “whom I love in truth” — with explicit teaching that this is self-giving, truth-grounded covenantal love, not romantic sentiment. Direct parallel to the baseline’s grace/on-giri clarification pattern. |
| 愛する者 (aisuru mono), for ἀγαπητός | Inherits the same romantic-register risk as 愛 above, at the level of a form of address rather than an abstract noun. | Same fencing as 愛/愛する; clarify as covenantal address, not casual affectionate flattery. |
| 兄弟 (kyoudai), for ἀδελφός | Japanese kinship vocabulary is inherently age-ranked (兄 elder brother / 弟 younger brother), a distinction absent from the Greek; ordinary usage denotes literal siblings. | Retain 兄弟 (established NT convention) but require explicit context-clarification that this denotes the extended spiritual family of fellow believers, not literal relatives and not an age-hierarchy claim. |
| 子どもたち (kodomotachi), for τέκνον | Risk of being read either as literal offspring or, via Japan’s culturally vivid teacher-disciple lineage tradition (師弟関係 — martial arts, craft apprenticeship, historically Buddhist master-disciple transmission), as a guru-disciple lineage-transmission relationship rather than the NT’s familial-adoption sense. | Retain 子どもたち; explicitly connect to the baseline’s adoption doctrine (子とされること) rather than to lineage/transmission vocabulary. |
| 友人 (yuujin), for φίλος | Casual peer-relationship register in ordinary Japanese, and can additionally import unspoken senpai-kohai status-consciousness even among nominal peers. | Retain 友人 but draw explicit connection to John 15:14–15’s elevated “friend” language, so the closing greeting reads as covenantal dignity, not a casual farewell remark. |
| 直接顔を合わせて (chokusetsu kao wo awasete), for the “mouth to mouth” idiom | A literal rendering (口から口へ) would risk sounding like mouth-to-mouth resuscitation or, in casual register, physical intimacy. | Use only the idiomatic paraphrase; a literal transliteration/calque is forbidden. |
Doctrine-level gap assessment: This doctrine concentrates the letter’s two highest-risk fencing problems in Japanese (真理’s Buddhist-philosophy collision and 愛’s romantic-love saturation) plus several Medium-risk kinship/status collisions (兄弟, 子どもたち, 友人). No true missing-vocabulary gap; every risk here is crowded-neighborhood, not absence.
Part 2 — Missing Vocabulary vs. Crowded Semantic Neighborhoods
A key distinction for this letter: most of its translation risk is not the absence of a Japanese word (missing vocabulary) but the presence of a competing, well-established meaning already occupying the available word (a crowded semantic neighborhood), requiring active doctrinal “fencing” in teaching materials. 3 John has very few true vocabulary gaps and many crowded neighborhoods — the inverse profile of a term like “grace” in the baseline package, where the word itself is fine but the surrounding cultural system (on-giri) actively reinterprets it.
2.1 Missing Vocabulary (true lexical gaps requiring paraphrase/coinage)
| Term | Why no single Japanese word suffices | Resolution |
|---|---|---|
| φιλοπρωτεύω (love of preeminence) | NT hapax legomenon; no inherited Japanese Bible-tradition rendering exists at all, unlike every other term in this letter. | Coined descriptive phrase: 自分が一番になりたがること (“wanting to be first/foremost oneself”), with mandatory framing note (see Doctrine 3 above). |
| προπέμπω (send forward with material support) | No single Japanese verb captures both “send off” and “materially provision for the journey” simultaneously. | Full descriptive phrase: 旅の支援をして送り出す. |
| στόμα πρὸς στόμα (“mouth to mouth,” direct speech idiom) | A calque would misfire badly (resuscitation/intimacy associations); no equivalent single-word Japanese idiom exists. | Idiomatic paraphrase: 直接顔を合わせて. |
| ἀξίως τοῦ θεοῦ (“worthily of God”) | No single-word Japanese adverb captures this comparative-standard sense. | Phrase: 神にふさわしく, inheriting 神’s own Critical qualifier requirements. |
| ὀφείλω in gospel-partnership sense (“we ought”) | Japanese modal auxiliaries (~べきである) exist, but none map the specific “moral debt owed to gospel co-laborers” sense without added teaching. | Phrase 〜べきである plus mandatory teaching note distinguishing this from on-giri reciprocal debt (see Doctrine 1 and Part 3 below). |
These five are the letter’s only genuine missing-vocabulary items; note that four of five are hospitality/practical-partnership vocabulary rather than core doctrinal nouns — the theological core terms (love, truth, good/evil, faith, God) all have existing Japanese words, which shifts the letter’s dominant risk profile toward fencing rather than coinage.
2.2 Crowded Semantic Neighborhoods Requiring Fencing
| Japanese term | Competing occupant of the semantic space | Fencing requirement |
|---|---|---|
| 神 (God) | Shinto’s countless kami (八百万の神) | Baseline-inherited: persistent 唯一のまことの神 qualifier at first occurrence and at vv.6/11’s doctrinal climax. |
| 真理 (Truth) | Buddhist philosophical/enlightenment truth (悟りの真理), impersonal and attainable through practice | Anchor to the person of Christ (cf. John 14:6) at every occurrence; never let it stand as an abstract principle. |
| 愛 (Love) | Contemporary romantic-love register (love songs, dramas, commercial Valentine’s culture) | Pair with explicit “self-giving, truth-grounded” teaching at every doctrinally weighty occurrence, especially v.1’s “love in truth.” |
| 魂 (Soul) | Folk-animist ancestral-spirit tradition (Obon), horror-genre 幽霊 associations, pop-culture “extractable spirit” imagery | Clarify as the whole inner person’s spiritual condition before God, not a detachable animist entity. |
| 善／悪 doing good/evil | Buddhist/Confucian merit-accumulation ethics (功徳, kudoku) | Explicit “fruit/evidence, not means of earning standing” teaching at v.11, parallel to the baseline’s grace clarification. |
| 忠実な (Faithful) | Bushido loyalty ethics (忠) and corporate loyalty culture | Clarify the object of faithfulness as gospel/truth, not hierarchical loyalty to a superior. |
| 兄弟 (Brother) | Literal, age-ranked sibling kinship vocabulary (兄/弟) | Clarify extended spiritual-family sense; note the Greek carries no age-rank distinction. |
| 子どもたち (Spiritual children) | Teacher-disciple lineage tradition (師弟関係) | Connect explicitly to the baseline adoption doctrine, not to lineage-transmission vocabulary. |
| 長老 (Elder) | Generic village/clan elder or simply “an elderly person” | Gloss as a recognized apostolic-era pastoral office at first occurrence. |
| 友人 (Friend) | Casual peer register plus imported senpai-kohai status-consciousness | Connect to John 15:14–15’s elevated usage. |
| 追い出す (Cast out) | NT exorcism usage elsewhere; risk of being read as a legitimate-discipline model | Explicit “negative example, condemned abuse of authority” framing at every occurrence. |
| ~べきである (Ought) | On-giri reciprocal-obligation framework (Critical risk under baseline “grace”) | Explicit “gospel-partnership duty, not salvation-repayment mechanic” teaching note. |
Observation: every crowded-neighborhood risk in this letter has the same underlying shape as a risk already documented in the baseline Romans package (God/kami, grace/on-giri, righteousness/Bushido, sanctification/shugyou). 3 John does not introduce a new class of collision; it redistributes the same collision classes across new vocabulary (love, truth, soul, good/evil, faithful, elder, friend). This should reassure reviewers that existing baseline teaching patterns (persistent qualifiers, explicit non-transactional framing, explicit “fruit not cause” framing) transfer directly rather than requiring invention from scratch — with the single exception of φιλοπρωτεύω, which is genuinely without precedent.
Part 3 — Transliteration vs. Paraphrase Decisions
| Item | Decision | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Proper names: Γάϊος (Gaius), Διοτρέφης (Diotrephes), Δημήτριος (Demetrius) | Transliterate: ガイオ, ディオトレフェス, デメトリオ | Follow established Shinkaiyaku 2017 transliteration conventions for NT proper names, consistent with the baseline’s proper-name policy (cf. David = ダビデ, Israel = イスラエル). Katakana rendering is standard and carries no doctrinal risk. |
| πρεσβύτερος (Elder, self-designation) | Paraphrase with an existing kanji compound: 長老 | An established Japanese Christian theological term already exists (cf. 長老派, “Presbyterian”); transliteration would be both unnecessary and unintelligible. |
| φιλοπρωτεύω (love of preeminence) | Paraphrase (coined descriptive phrase), never transliterate | No Greek-derived loanword tradition exists for this hapax in Japanese Christian usage; a transliteration (e.g., a katakana rendering of the Greek root) would communicate nothing to readers and must not be attempted. |
| στόμα πρὸς στόμα (idiom) | Paraphrase only: 直接顔を合わせて | Idiomatic source-language expressions must never be calque-translated (see baseline idiom-handling rule); a literal or transliterated rendering actively misfires here. |
| ἀγάπη, ἀλήθεια, ψυχή, ἀγαθός/κακός | Native kanji vocabulary (愛, 真理, 魂, 善/悪), not transliteration | These are core theological concepts with long-established Japanese Bible-translation renderings; transliterating Greek roots would abandon 400+ years of Japanese Christian vocabulary tradition and produce meaningless katakana strings. The risk with these terms is fencing (Part 2), not absence of a word. |
| ξένος (stranger) | Paraphrase with existing word: 旅人 | A native word already carries the needed sense (traveler/outsider); no transliteration option is relevant. |
| ἀμήν-class terms (not present in 3 John’s text but referenced for consistency) | Transliterate per baseline: アーメン | No occurrence in 3 John, cited here only to confirm no deviation from baseline transliteration policy is introduced by this letter. |
| ”The Name” (absolute christological ὄνομα) | Paraphrase: 御名（のため） | An honorific-but-native Japanese Christian phrase already exists; transliterating “onoma” would be unintelligible and would risk confusion with unrelated Japanese name-avoidance customs if left unexplained regardless. |
General principle for this letter: transliteration is reserved strictly for proper names (Gaius, Diotrephes, Demetrius) and for terms with an already-established loanword/transliteration tradition in Japanese Christian usage (none of which occur newly in 3 John beyond names). Every theological concept term uses native Japanese vocabulary, consistent with the baseline package’s overall strategy — the translation task in 3 John is overwhelmingly one of fencing existing words, not inventing new loanwords.
Part 4 — Ranked List of This Letter’s Highest-Risk Ambiguities
Ranked by combined severity (doctrinal centrality × collision/dilution risk × review burden), with the governing verse(s) noted.
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ἀγάπη / love (v.1, “whom I love in truth”) — High risk. The letter’s opening word is immediately vulnerable to Japan’s dominant romantic-love register for 愛. Because this is the very first theological term the reader encounters, a failure here colors the reception of the entire letter. Requires human theologian review at every doctrinally weighted occurrence.
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ἀλήθεια / truth (vv.1, 3, 4, 8, 12) — High risk, and arguably the letter’s single most theologically load-bearing term, occurring more times than any other doctrine word in this short book. Direct collision with Buddhist philosophical usage of 真理 as an impersonal, attainable cosmic principle. Requires human theologian review; must be anchored to Christ’s person at each occurrence, not treated as settled after first use.
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ἀγαθοποιέω/κακοποιέω, “doing good/doing evil” (v.11) — High risk. This is the letter’s doctrinal climax (“the one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God”) and directly inherits the baseline’s Critical-tier collision between grace/works and Japan’s merit-accumulation (功徳) ethical framework. This single verse also co-occurs with the baseline Critical term “God,” making it the highest cumulative-risk sentence in the entire letter — it stacks a Critical-tier term (神) with a High-tier doctrinal collision (merit) in one clause. Mandatory human theologian review, no exceptions.
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φιλοπρωτεύω / love of preeminence (v.9) — High risk. The letter’s only true lexical gap, diagnosing Diotrephes’ sin, in direct tension with Japan’s rank/status-conscious social structures (senpai-kohai, corporate title culture) that could read his ambition sympathetically rather than as condemned pride. Requires mandatory framing note; human theologian review.
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ἐκβάλλω / cast out (v.10) — High risk. Homonymous with NT exorcism vocabulary and structurally similar to legitimate church-discipline language elsewhere in the canon; without explicit negative-example framing, this could be misread by Japanese readers as a model rather than a warning. Human theologian review required.
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ψυχή / soul (v.2) — High risk. Early in the letter, this term is exposed to Japan’s vivid folk-animist and horror-genre associations for 魂 before the reader has any theological anchoring for the term; also carries dilution risk toward a prosperity-gospel misreading if quoted apart from its qualifying clause. Native speaker review at minimum; theologian review recommended given the animism-adjacent collision class.
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τέκνον / spiritual children (v.4) — Medium-High risk. Risk of import from Japan’s teacher-disciple lineage tradition (師弟関係), which would substitute a hierarchical-transmission frame for the NT’s familial-adoption frame. Requires explicit cross-reference to the baseline adoption doctrine.
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πιστός / faithful act (v.5) — Medium-High risk. Bushido/corporate-loyalty resonance risks recasting Gaius’s gospel-conviction hospitality as hierarchical loyalty-display. Requires explicit object-of-faithfulness clarification (truth/gospel, not a superior).
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μιμέομαι / imitate (v.11) — Medium-High risk, substantially mitigated by the clear 見習う-over-真似る word-choice decision already made, but still requires teaching reinforcement given how central “imitation” is to this curriculum’s naming doctrine (“Imitating Good rather than Evil”).
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θεός / God (vv.6, 11) — Critical risk (inherited, not new), included here to flag that it is the underlying governing term for risk #3 above and must never be treated as “already solved” by the baseline simply because it is a reused term; every occurrence in this letter’s climactic v.11 statement requires the full qualifying treatment the baseline mandates.
Structural observation on risk clustering: verses 9–11 form a single tightly clustered high-risk zone — Diotrephes’ preeminence-seeking (v.9, gap #4), his casting-out abuse (v.10, gap #5), and the letter’s doing-good/doing-evil doctrinal verdict (v.11, gap #3, stacked with gap #10) sit back-to-back. Phase 2 segment processing should treat vv.9–11 as a single high-density review unit rather than three independent segments, since the cumulative doctrinal weight of this short span exceeds that of any comparable span elsewhere in the letter.
This document extends, and must be read alongside, 07_semantic_analysis.md and 08_core_glossary.md for this curriculum, and inherits all governing conventions from the baseline Romans translation_memory.json, bible_term_registry.json, and doctrine_risk_registry.json. No baseline term adjudication is altered here.