Linguistic Gap Analysis
06 — Linguistic Gap Analysis: 2 Timothy (English → Konkani)
0. Purpose and Method
This analysis maps the vocabulary demands of 2 Timothy’s seven core doctrines — Inspiration and Sufficiency of Scripture, Perseverance under Suffering, Guarding Sound Doctrine, Faithful Transmission of the Gospel, The Charge to Preach the Word, Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days, and Assurance of Reward — against the actual resources of Devanagari-script Konkani as used in the Bible Society of India tradition, and against the specific religious landscape of Goa (Goan Saraswat Hindu temple devotionalism, Varkari bhakti-poet tradition, karma/rebirth cosmology, and the historical memory of the Portuguese-era Goa Inquisition).
Its job is to answer, for every load-bearing doctrine: what Konkani vocabulary already exists, where it is dangerously crowded by a competing religious meaning, where it is simply missing, and what strategy (reuse / fence / paraphrase / transliterate / coin) resolves the gap. This document extends, and does not contradict, the Romans-curriculum baseline; every term already fixed in translation_memory.json v1 is treated as settled and is reused, never re-litigated here.
Four outputs follow: (1) a doctrine-by-doctrine vocabulary matrix; (2) a missing-vocabulary vs. crowded-neighborhood map with fencing strategies; (3) a transliteration-vs-paraphrase decision table; (4) a ranked list of this letter’s highest-risk ambiguities.
1. Doctrine Vocabulary Matrix
| Doctrine | Candidate Konkani term(s) considered | Weaknesses of each candidate | Recommended strategy |
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| Inspiration and Sufficiency of Scripture | (a) शास्त्र alone; (b) पवित्र शास्त्र (compound); (c) वेद-analogy avoided outright; for θεόπνευστος: (d) प्रेरित (bare); (e) देवप्रेरित (compound) | (a) bare शास्त्र is the same generic word used for Dharmaśāstra, Yogaśāstra, Jyotiṣaśāstra — any authoritative treatise, not a closed God-given corpus; (d) bare प्रेरित reads as ordinary poetic/artistic “inspiration,” indistinguishable from a guru’s or rishi’s inspired composition, and risks assimilation to either the śruti (eternal, impersonally “heard” revelation) or smṛti (humanly remembered/composed) categories of Hindu textual theology, neither of which matches the biblical claim | Fence, don’t invent from nothing. Lock the compound पवित्र शास्त्र for Scripture and देवप्रेरित for God-breathed, each with a standing translator note asserting: (i) a closed, historically fixed, God-authored corpus, (ii) authored through, not merely channeled by, human writers, (iii) neither eternal-impersonal (śruti) nor merely human-remembered (smṛti). Reuse baseline पवित्र consistently as the fencing adjective throughout. |
| Perseverance under Suffering | (a) सहनशीलता (endurance); (b) संयम (self-restraint); (c) तप/तपश्चर्या (ascetic austerity) | (c) तप/तपश्चर्या is the most natural “high-register” Konkani/Marathi vocabulary for disciplined suffering, but it names self-chosen ascetic austerity performed to accumulate merit or spiritual power — the opposite of Paul’s Christ-appointed, grace-rooted, involuntary suffering; (a) alone, without reinforcement, can still be heard as stoic or karma-driven acceptance (“this suffering is my due”) rather than hope-rooted perseverance | Fence सहनशीलता, reject तप root entirely. Every occurrence of ὑπομονή/κακοπαθέω must be anchored to its stated ground (hope of resurrection/reign with Christ, 2:10–12) in the same sentence or footnote, so endurance reads as forward-looking and grace-enabled, never as fatalistic merit-suffering or debt-paying. |
| Guarding Sound Doctrine | (a) सुदृढ शिकवण (sound/healthy teaching); (b) शुद्ध शिकवण (pure/ritually-clean teaching); (c) थेव (deposit/entrusted treasure) | (b) शुद्ध carries the ritual-purity sense already flagged in the baseline for holy/sanctification — wrong register for a health/wholeness metaphor contrasted with “gangrene” (2:17); (c) थेव has no existing theological currency in Konkani and must be introduced fresh | Coin with metaphor fidelity. Lock सुदृढ शिकवण (health metaphor preserved) and introduce थेव as a new but transparent Konkani word (a valuable item placed in trust) reinforced across 1:12, 1:14, and echoed by 4:7’s “kept the faith” (विश्वास राखला) so the guarding-image is felt as one continuous thread through the letter. |
| Faithful Transmission of the Gospel | (a) सोपप (hand over/entrust); (b) दिवप (give, too generic); (c) वारसा (inheritance/legacy, culturally resonant but risks a passive “received automatically” sense) | (b) is too weak to carry the chain-of-custody sense of παρατίθημι; (c) वारसा is attractive (Timothy’s three-generation faith legacy, 1:5, mirrors inheritance customs) but risks implying transmission happens automatically by birthright rather than by active, faithful teaching that can also fail or be corrupted | Use सोपप as the operative verb, reserving वारसा only as an illustrative aside in teaching notes about 1:5 (Lois → Eunice → Timothy), never as the doctrinal term itself, to avoid implying gospel fidelity is guaranteed by lineage rather than by active faithful teaching (2:2). |
| The Charge to Preach the Word | (a) प्रचार करप (proclaim/publicize); (b) उपदेश करप (give religious discourse, strongly associated with guru/kirtankar sermon delivery); (c) कडक ताकीद दिवप (solemn charge) | (b) उपदेश करप is natural and dignified but pulls toward the Marathi-Konkani kirtan/pravachan tradition of a religious teacher’s discourse, which can read as one respected teacher’s opinion among many rather than a herald’s authoritative announcement of a fixed decree; also risks blending with guru-authority structures the baseline already flags | Prefer प्रचार करप for κηρύσσω, reserving the solemnity of Διαμαρτύρομαι for the separate, stronger phrase कडक ताकीद दितां (4:1) so that the letter’s two distinct registers — authoritative heralding (κηρύσσω) and a formal legal-style charge (Διαμαρτύρομαι) — remain distinguishable rather than flattened into one generic “preaching” idea. |
| Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days | (a) निमाणे दीस (last days); (b) कलियुग-language avoided outright; (c) भ्रश्ट/पाखंडी (heretic/corrupt teacher) | (b) Kali Yuga moral-decline imagery (dishonoring parents, greed, faithlessness, loss of dharma) is strikingly close in surface content to 2 Timothy 3:1–5’s vice catalogue, which is a genuine asset for felt relevance but a serious risk if left unfenced, since Kali Yuga is one repeating phase of an endless four-yuga cosmic cycle (after which a new Satya Yuga begins), while “the last days” is linear, one-time, terminating in Christ’s unrepeatable return and judgment | Use the vice-catalogue’s surface familiarity deliberately, but fence निमाणे दीस with a standing translator note distinguishing linear-historical finality from cyclical yuga-renewal at every occurrence (3:1) — the resemblance should be named and then corrected, not silently left to imply a shared cosmology. |
| Assurance of Reward | (a) नीतिमत्तेचो मुकुट (crown of righteousness); (b) बक्षीस दिवप (award/repay); (c) कर्मफळ (fruit of karma/works) rejected outright per baseline | (c) कर्मफळ is already forbidden by the baseline for “grace” and must be equally forbidden here — reward-for-suffering language in 2 Timothy 4:7–8 is exactly the passage where a Hindu-background reader could most naturally reach for a karma-fruit frame (“Paul suffered much, therefore he earns much”) | Reinforce, don’t just avoid. Every occurrence of ἀποδίδωμι/the crown must be explicitly anchored as the righteous Judge’s gracious verdict flowing from union with Christ’s own righteousness (echoing 4:8’s ὁ δίκαιος κριτής and the baseline’s Critical रule on imputed righteousness), not a wage mechanically proportional to suffering endured or good deeds performed. |
2. Missing Vocabulary vs. Crowded Semantic Neighborhoods
2.1 Genuinely missing vocabulary (no prior Konkani theological term exists)
These concepts have no settled Konkani Christian rendering at all prior to this curriculum and required fresh coinage or compounding (see 08_core_glossary.md Section B for the full derivations):
| Concept | Gap | Resolution |
|---|---|---|
| θεόπνευστος (God-breathed) | No single Konkani word names “text authored by God through a human writer.” | Compound coinage: देवप्रेरित. |
| παραθήκη (deposit/entrusted trust) | No existing theological usage; nearest neighbors (सोपणावळ, general “handover”) lack the sense of a fixed, valuable, must-be-guarded trust. | New term: थेव, reinforced by repetition across 1:12, 1:14, 4:7. |
| ὀρθοτομέω (rightly handling the word) | No Konkani exegetical-methodology vocabulary exists distinct from generic Hindu shastric hermeneutics (e.g., pūrva-mīmāṃsā rules for ritual-text interpretation, which operate under a wholly different authority structure). | Descriptive phrase: सत्याचो शब्द नीट हाताळप, deliberately verbal/descriptive rather than a borrowed shastric technical term. |
| μόρφωσις εὐσεβείας (form of godliness) | No existing single term for “hollow outward religiosity lacking inward reality” — Konkani religious vocabulary tends to assume outward practice and inward devotion are unified (as in bhakti). | Compound: देवनिष्ठेचें बाह्य रूप, built to be legible as a diagnostic category rather than borrowed from an existing framework. |
| ἐπιφάνεια (appearing/manifestation, distinct from incarnation) | Konkani theological vocabulary already has देहधारण (baseline, for the one-time incarnation) but nothing for Christ’s visible manifestation events (first coming disclosed, future return) as a distinct category from the incarnation itself. | New coinage: प्रगटप, explicitly fenced apart from देहधारण in every occurrence (see §4 below — this is the single highest-risk gap in the letter). |
| εὐσέβεια (godliness) | Konkani has abundant devotional vocabulary (भक्ती, धर्माचरण) but none of it is safe (see §2.2); a functional gap exists for “reverent, obedient loyalty to the one true God expressed in transformed living” that does not carry chosen-deity devotional overtones. | New coinage: देवनिष्ठा (built on निष्ठा, loyalty/steadfast commitment), flagged for mandatory theologian confirmation before locking. |
| ἀγάπη as a distinct theological category from κρίμα/काम/भक्ती | This is 2 Timothy’s (and the whole curriculum’s) first occurrence of “love” as a technical term; Konkani has words for love but none pre-vetted for this specific theological register. | New coinage: मोग, flagged for mandatory confirmation — see ranked risks below. |
2.2 Crowded semantic neighborhoods requiring active fencing
These are cases where Konkani (or Marathi-family Bible Konkani) vocabulary already exists and is fluent, but sits inside a semantic field dominated by a specific, locally lived Goan Hindu or folk-religious concept. Reuse without fencing would produce syncretistic misreading.
| Konkani term/root | Competing occupant of the semantic space | Why it matters for 2 Timothy specifically | Fencing strategy |
|---|---|---|---|
| वासना (desire/craving, ἐπιθυμία) | Yogic/Vedantic vāsanā — the deep karmic impression/craving that binds the soul to the rebirth cycle, extinguished through ascetic discipline or exhausted through karma | Occurs three times in this short letter (2:22, 3:6, 3:4) — a higher density than almost any other doctrine term, making the collision unusually exposed | Retain वासना (best available lexical fit) but require a translator note wherever it appears in a doctrinally significant contrast: the biblical remedy is deliverance through Christ and the Spirit’s sanctifying work, never ascetic extinguishing of desire or self-directed karma-exhaustion. |
| शास्त्र / bare “scripture”-type words | The entire genre-family of Dharmaśāstra, Yogaśāstra, Jyotiṣaśāstra — treatises considered authoritative within their own domain but plural and non-exclusive | 3:15–17 is the letter’s doctrinal core passage on Scripture’s unique, sufficient authority | Never leave शास्त्र bare in a doctrinal register; always पवित्र शास्त्र, reinforced by a note that this names one, closed, God-authored corpus, not one genre of śāstra among several legitimate others. |
| भक्ती (devotion) | Goan Hindu temple devotionalism directed at a personally chosen iṣṭa-devatā (Shantadurga, Mangueshi, Mahalasa Narayani) | Directly relevant to εὐσέβεια (godliness, 3:5, 3:12) and implicitly to ἀγάπη toward God (4:8) | भक्ती is excluded outright for both terms (already excluded for “faith” in the baseline); देवनिष्ठा and मोग are built on non-bhakti roots (निष्ठा, मोग) specifically to avoid this collision. |
| निमाणे दीस / any last-things vocabulary | Kali Yuga within the cyclical four-yuga cosmology (Satya, Treta, Dvapara, Kali) | 3:1–5’s vice catalogue reads as strikingly similar to standard Kali Yuga decline-lists in regional religious teaching | See §1 above; fence with a standing note on linearity vs. cyclical renewal at first occurrence (3:1) and recall it at 4:1 (judgment) and 4:8 (the appearing). |
| सत्य (truth) | The Hindu philosophical category of Truth as an impersonal cosmic principle (Brahman-adjacent absolute reality), and satyāgraha-style truth-as-ethical-force | Occurs four times (2:15, 2:25, 3:7, 4:4), always contrasted with fabricated myths/error | Anchor सत्य contextually every time as God’s personal, historically revealed truth in the apostolic gospel — never an impersonal cosmic Truth realized through meditation, gnosis, or philosophical insight. |
| दंतकथा (myths, μῦθος) | Goa’s living Puranic/temple-narrative tradition (the Mahalasa-Mohini story, Shantadurga and Mangueshi origin narratives) — genuinely treasured devotional literature, not something to blanket-dismiss | 4:4 is Paul’s specific warning about fabricated teaching displacing the apostolic gospel within the church, not a verdict on all traditional religious narrative generally | Scope narrowly with a note: this names invented teaching substituting for apostolic truth inside Christian instruction, not a wholesale judgment on regional devotional literature as a cultural artifact. |
| भांडें (vessel, honor/dishonor, σκεῦος) | Goa’s caste social structure (Goud Saraswat Brahmin and other caste groupings), where inherited rank often functions as a fixed hierarchy of worth | 2:20–21’s gold/silver vs. wood/clay vessel imagery could easily be misheard as endorsing inherited caste hierarchy | Mandatory translator note: usefulness for honorable service is determined by moral self-cleansing (a matter of choice and grace-enabled obedience), explicitly never by birth status or caste. |
| अर्पणासारकें वताडप (poured out like a drink offering, σπένδομαι) | Regional Hindu tarpaṇa ritual libation, an ongoing, repeatable ritual obligation to ancestors/deities | 4:6 — Paul’s one-time, unrepeatable self-offering unto martyrdom | Note the OT sacrificial/libation background explicitly and mark this as a single, historically unrepeated act of self-giving, not a recurring ritual obligation. |
| जादूगार (γόης, “impostor/charlatan”) | Living regional folk-magic practitioner categories in Konkan (mांत्रीक, भगत) | 3:13 names deceivers opposing sound teaching | Gloss explicitly as “religious charlatan/deceiver” rather than a stage-magic entertainer, and keep the reference general (not naming any specific living local practice) to avoid unintended local offense. |
| सैतान (devil, διάβολος) | Generic Konkani/Goan folk-belief spirits and ghosts (भूत, पिशाच, चेटूक) | 2:26 — the devil’s snare for false teachers | Note that this names one singular, personal cosmic adversary, distinct from the folk category of wandering spirits or ancestral ghosts. |
3. Transliteration vs. Paraphrase Decisions
| Decision type | Terms | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Transliterate (proper names, no translation possible) | Timothy तिमथी, Onesiphorus वनेसिफोर, Hymenaeus हुमेनाय, Philetus फिलेत, Jannes यान्नेस, Jambres यांब्रेस, Demas देमास, Crescens क्रेस्केस, Titus तीत, Tychicus तुखिक, Carpus कार्प, Alexander अलेक्सांद्र, Prisca प्रिस्का, Aquila अक्विला, Eubulus युबुल, Pudens पुदेस, Linus लीन, Claudia क्लौदिया, Mark मार्क, Luke लूक, place names अंत्युखिया/इकुनिया/लुस्त्रा/मिसर | Standard Bible-translation practice; no doctrinal content is carried by these forms beyond identification, so established Devanagari Konkani/Marathi Bible spelling conventions apply directly (see baseline’s Jesus/David/Israel precedent). |
| Transliterate (retain foreign term for theological weight, as with baseline’s Abba) | None newly required in 2 Timothy — no Aramaic/Hebrew intimacy-term equivalent to Abba occurs in this letter. Jannes/Jambres and Hymenaeus/Philetus are transliterated as names, not concepts, and carry a recommended footnote (extra-biblical Jewish tradition; heretical individuals) rather than theological transliteration. | Distinguishes “proper name transliteration” (routine) from “concept transliteration” (rare, reserved for cases like Abba where no target-language equivalent carries the same relational force). No 2 Timothy term meets that bar. |
| Paraphrase/compound rather than single-word coinage | ὀρθοτομέω → सत्याचो शब्द नीट हाताळप; ἀδόκιμοι περὶ τὴν πίστιν → विश्वासाच्या बाबतींत नापास; κνηθόμενοι τὴν ἀκοήν (itching ears) → कान खाजोवपाची चटक; the nineteen-item vice catalogue (3:2–5) → a shortened descriptive list rather than nineteen new single-word coinages; πλανῶντες καὶ πλανώμενοι → फटवप आनी फटो जावप | Konkani, like the baseline’s justification/imputed_righteousness precedent, frequently requires a compound phrase where Greek has a single word carrying dense, non-decomposable sense; forcing a single invented Konkani word in these cases would either obscure meaning or produce an unnatural neologism with no interpretive transparency. Idioms (itching ears) specifically follow the AI requirements’ idiom-handling rule: convey meaning naturally, not word-for-word. |
| Coin as a single new fixed compound term (locked into translation memory) | θεόπνευστος → देवप्रेरित; παραθήκη → थेव; ἐπιφάνεια → प्रगटप; εὐσέβεια → देवनिष्ठा; ἀγάπη → मोग; μετάνοια → पश्चात्ताप (reinforced with मनपालट at first occurrence) | These are recurring, structurally load-bearing doctrinal nouns that will be used repeatedly across the letter and future curricula (e.g., ἀγάπη will recur constantly in Matthew, Luke, John, Acts, 2 Corinthians, Galatians — all in this pipeline’s broader curriculum scope per the AI requirements’ tags field). A single fixed, well-fenced term is preferable to ad hoc paraphrase, provided it receives mandatory theologian confirmation before locking (see §4). |
| Reuse verbatim from Romans baseline (no new decision required) | गॉस्पेल/gospel सुवार्ता, grace कृपा, faith विश्वास, righteousness नीतिमत्ता, salvation तारण, resurrection पुनरुत्थान, lord प्रभू, holy पवित्र, holy_spirit पवित्र आत्मा, god देव (with exclusivity marker), jesus येशू, father पिता, called/calling बोलावलेले/बोलावणें, apostle प्रेषित, kingdom_of_god देवाचें राज्य, peace शांती, spiritual_gifts आत्मिक वरदान, gentiles परराष्ट्रीय, david/seed_of_david, church मंडळी, exhort उत्तेजन देणें | Hard rule of this pipeline: baseline terms must be reused exactly, never re-decided. Included here only to make clear these are not open questions in this analysis. |
4. Ranked List of Highest-Risk Ambiguities in 2 Timothy
Ranked by combined severity (doctrinal centrality × collision proximity to a lived, specific Goan religious practice) and required review routing.
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ἐπιφάνεια (appearing) vs. δεηδηάρτ deo/avatar-descent — CRITICAL. Occurs three times (1:10, 4:1, 4:8) across three different doctrines (Deity of Christ, the Charge to Preach, Assurance of Reward), and sits immediately adjacent to the baseline’s own flagged Mahalasa Narayani/Mardol avatar risk. The single greatest danger in this letter is a reader hearing प्रगटप as “yet another divine appearance,” collapsing Christ’s unique, twice-named (past and future) manifestation into the same conceptual slot as a temple deity’s periodic avatar-descent. Mitigation: standing translator note at every occurrence, sharply distinguishing प्रगटप from देहधारण (a one-time permanent assumption of human nature) and from avatar theology (repeatable, partial, cyclical divine descent). Human theologian review at every occurrence, no exceptions.
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τὴν ἀνάστασιν ἤδη γεγονέναι — the false “resurrection already happened” claim (2:18) — CRITICAL. This is uniquely dangerous because the correct Konkani term (पुनरुत्थान) must appear in a sentence that rejects the claim built on it — any translation slip that drops the corrective frame risks the Konkani text appearing to affirm Hymenaeus and Philetus’s heresy. Mitigation: the fixed bracketed frame पुनरुत्थान (नाकारिल्लें, चुकीचें शिकवण म्हणून चिन्न केल्लें) must never be shortened or paraphrased away in Phase 2. Human theologian review at every occurrence.
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θεόπνευστος / देवप्रेरित (God-breathed) — CRITICAL. The doctrinal core of 3:16 sits at the exact intersection of two Hindu-tradition categories (śruti eternal-impersonal revelation vs. smṛti human composition) that together exhaust the categories a Hindu-background reader is likely to reach for — and neither matches. This is a conceptual gap requiring active construction, not passive avoidance. Human theologian review, standing note required at every occurrence.
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εὐσέβεια / देवनिष्ठा (godliness) — HIGH, first-occurrence risk. A brand-new coinage carrying real doctrinal weight (3:5, 3:12) that has not yet been used anywhere in this pipeline. If देवनिष्ठा is not confirmed and locked before Phase 2 begins, translators may improvise भक्ती under time pressure, silently reintroducing the very collision this term was built to avoid. Mandatory theologian/native-speaker confirmation before any 2 Timothy segment containing 3:5 or 3:12 is processed.
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ἀγάπη / मोग (love) — HIGH, first-occurrence risk across the whole curriculum. This is the first time “love” enters this curriculum’s glossary at all; it will recur constantly in every subsequent book in this pipeline’s scope (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, 2 Corinthians, Galatians). Locking the wrong term now propagates the error across the entire remaining curriculum. Must be distinguished from काम (romantic/sensual love) and भक्ती (devotional worship-love). Mandatory theologian confirmation before locking, given downstream propagation risk.
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νεωτερικαὶ ἐπιθυμίαι / vāsanā collision (2:22, 3:6, 4:3) — HIGH, density risk. Three occurrences in one short letter make this the most frequently repeated crowded-neighborhood term in the curriculum; repeated exposure without a consistently applied translator note multiplies the risk of a syncretistic reading settling in across a full teaching series.
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ἐν ἐσχάταις ἡμέραις / निमाणे दीस vs. Kali Yuga (3:1) — HIGH. The vice-catalogue content (3:2–5) is unusually close in surface presentation to standard Kali Yuga decline-teaching, making this the passage most likely to feel comfortably familiar to a Hindu-background reader in exactly the wrong way — comfort without correction is itself the risk.
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σκεῦος εἰς τιμήν / εἰς ἀτιμίαν (vessel of honor/dishonor, 2:20–21) — HIGH, socially loaded. Distinct from the theological risks above, this is a social-justice risk: unflagged, the passage’s gold/silver vs. wood/clay imagery could be read as scripturally endorsing Goa’s existing caste hierarchy (Goud Saraswat Brahmin and other groupings), precisely inverting Paul’s point that usefulness is a matter of self-cleansing choice, not inherited status.
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κηρύσσω / प्रचार करप vs. उपदेश करप (preach, 4:2) — MEDIUM-HIGH, tone risk. Given Goa’s Inquisition-era memory, any hint of confrontational or pressuring proclamation carries a much heavier negative charge here than in most other languages in this pipeline; the choice between “heralding” and “giving religious discourse” registers must consistently favor invitational boldness over coercive tone.
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ἀποδίδωμι / बक्षीस दिवप vs. कर्मफळ (repay/reward, 4:8, 4:14) — MEDIUM-HIGH. The crown-of-righteousness passage is the single point in this letter most likely to invite a karma-fruit misreading of grace-based reward; requires the same reinforcement discipline the baseline already established for “grace” itself.
5. Summary for Phase 2 Pre-flight
- 3 Critical-risk new terms (देवप्रेरित, प्रगटप, and the resurrection-already-happened corrective frame) require standing translator notes at every occurrence and mandatory human theologian review with no exceptions.
- 2 new terms require mandatory confirmation before locking into
translation_memory.json(देवनिष्ठा, मोग), plus one additional first-occurrence coinage recommended for the same confirmation step (पश्चात्ताप/repentance), given downstream reuse across the wider curriculum. - Seven crowded semantic neighborhoods (वासना/vāsanā, शास्त्र/śāstra genres, भक्ती/bhakti, निमाणे दीस/Kali Yuga, सत्य/impersonal Truth, दंतकथा/Puranic narrative, भांडें/caste hierarchy, अर्पण/tarpaṇa, सैतान/folk spirits) require active, repeated fencing rather than one-time avoidance, since several recur multiple times within this single short letter.
- No entirely untranslatable concept was found; every gap was resolvable through compounding, descriptive paraphrase, or fenced reuse — consistent with the baseline’s established method.
This analysis feeds directly into the doctrine risk registry update (Phase 1 Step 9) and must be loaded alongside 08_core_glossary.md before Phase 2 segment translation of any 2 Timothy passage begins.