Cross-Reference Analysis: 2 Peter (English → Maithili)

Curriculum: 2 Peter Core passage: 2 Peter 1:16–21 Destination language: Maithili (Devanagari script) Companion documents: analysis/07_semantic_analysis.md, analysis/08_core_glossary.md Citation convention: All citations in this document use the normalizable English form Book Chapter:Verse (e.g., “2 Peter 1:16”, “Genesis 15:6”, “Romans 1:17”). In Maithili-facing Phase 2 output, book names follow established North Indian Bible-translation convention; 2 Peter renders as 2 पतरस (parallel to Hindi “2 पतरस”), consistent with the baseline’s citation-format rule (रोमी for Romans, verse numbers in Arabic numerals).

Method: Full-book pass, first chapter to last. Every explicit OT quotation, every clear allusion, every messianic reference, every typological pattern, and every substantive parallel to the Romans baseline curriculum (the only other curriculum currently anchored in this language package) is catalogued below. No chapter is skipped; where a chapter contains no direct OT quotation, its allusions and NT/Romans parallels are recorded instead.

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Matrix Columns Key

• Passage — the 2 Peter reference under analysis.
• Theme — the theological theme carried by the cross-reference.
• Related Character(s) — biblical figures named or implied.
• OT/NT Connection — the specific quoted, alluded-to, or thematically parallel passage(s), normalized citation form.
• Translation Sensitivity — the specific Maithili rendering risk raised by this cross-reference, cross-checked against analysis/07 and analysis/08.

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PART 1 — Chapter 1

Passage	Theme	Related Character(s)	OT/NT Connection	Translation Sensitivity
2 Peter 1:1	Righteousness of God/Savior; impartial faith	Peter, Jesus Christ, believers	Romans 1:17 (“the righteousness of God”); Romans 3:22 (“no distinction”); Romans 9:5 (“Christ, who is God over all”)	धार्मिकता must be identical to the baseline rendering (Critical, Salvation doctrine). “Obtained a faith of equal standing” (ἰσότιμον) must not be softened in a way that reintroduces caste/lineage hierarchy, echoing the universal_scope_of_gospel concern already flagged Critical in the Romans doctrine registry.
2 Peter 1:2	Grace and peace multiplied; knowledge of God	Peter, God, Jesus	Romans 1:7 (“grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ”)	Epistolary greeting formula must render identically to Romans 1:7’s established Maithili form: अनुग्रह and शान्ति, TM-fixed terms, in the same word order and honorific verb register.
2 Peter 1:3–4	Divine power; partaking of divine nature	God, believers	Romans 8:29 (conformed to the image of the Son); 2 Corinthians 3:18 (transformed into the same image)	The moral-transformation-not-ontological-merger note attached to दैवीय स्वभावक भागी (Critical) must be applied consistently wherever Romans-family “conformed to Christ” language recurs in later curricula.
2 Peter 1:5–7	Virtue chain / progressive sanctification	Peter, believers	Romans 5:3–5 (suffering → endurance → character → hope chain); Galatians 5:22–23 (fruit of the Spirit)	Both passages use a rhetorical “chain” device; translators must not let the 2 Peter list read as a self-effort merit ladder disconnected from the grace-received faith named in 1:1, paralleling the grace-vs-merit concern flagged Critical in the Romans baseline (grace doctrine).
2 Peter 1:9	Cleansing from past sins forgotten	believers	Romans 6:6–7 (freed from sin); baseline “sin” = पाप	Consistent पाप usage; काठारिस्मस़ (cleansing) must avoid शुद्धिकरण per analysis/08 note.
2 Peter 1:10–11	Calling and election confirmed; eternal kingdom	Peter, believers	Romans 8:28–30 (foreknown, predestined, called, justified, glorified); Romans 11:29 (“the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable”)	बजाओल/परमेश्वरक चुनाव must reuse the Romans-fixed terms exactly (Critical/High, Effectual Calling doctrine). The “make your calling and election sure” exhortation should not be rendered as human effort earning election, but confirming by fruit what God has sovereignly done — same caution as Romans 8:28–30 review routing.
2 Peter 1:16	Eyewitness testimony vs. fabricated tale; power and coming of Christ	Peter, James, John, Jesus	Matthew 17:1–8; Mark 9:2–8; Luke 9:28–36 (Transfiguration accounts)	Direct Synoptic parallel; μῦθος (गढ़ल गप्प) contrast with genuine eyewitness testimony must be preserved identically whenever these Gospel accounts are processed in a future Matthew/Mark/Luke curriculum in this language pair — the Transfiguration narrative itself, not just this epistle’s reference to it, carries the same “not a myth” argument.
2 Peter 1:17	Father’s declaration of the Son	God the Father, Jesus, Peter	Psalm 2:7 (“You are my Son; today I have begotten you”); Isaiah 42:1 (“my chosen, in whom my soul delights”); Matthew 17:5; Mark 9:7; Luke 9:35	The Sonship title must render with the same Critical-tier परमेश्वरक पुत्र / प्रिय पुत्र established in the Romans baseline (sonship_of_christ doctrine). Because Psalm 2:7 and Isaiah 42:1 will eventually need their own Maithili renderings in an OT curriculum, this document flags both verses as requiring the identical “beloved/chosen Son” phrasing for cross-canon consistency once that curriculum exists.
2 Peter 1:18	The holy mountain (Transfiguration)	Peter, James, John, Moses/Elijah (implied by Synoptic parallels)	Exodus 24:15–18 (Moses on Sinai enveloped in the glory-cloud); Matthew 17:1–8	पवित्र पहाड़ (Medium) — Sinai typology reinforces the doctrine note already required in analysis/07: this mountain’s holiness is event-derived (a one-time theophany witnessed by named historical persons), not shrine-cult or pilgrimage-site holiness, and this same distinction will matter again if Exodus 24 is later translated.
2 Peter 1:19	The prophetic word confirmed; morning star	Christ (implied)	Numbers 24:17 (“a star shall come out of Jacob”); Revelation 22:16 (“I am … the bright morning star”)	Messianic-star imagery. भोरक तारा (Medium–High) must never use शुक्र. This is a direct textual link to the messianic_promise doctrine (Critical, Romans baseline) — flag for identical treatment if Numbers 24 or Revelation 22 enter a future curriculum.
2 Peter 1:20–21	Inspiration of prophecy	Moses and the prophets (implied), Peter	2 Timothy 3:16 (“All Scripture is breathed out by God”); Exodus 4:10–16 and the prophetic corpus generally (prophets as God’s spokesmen)	Direct doctrinal parallel to 2 Timothy 3:16, a book already named in this language package’s broader tag list. Both passages must render “Scripture” as पवित्र शास्त्र (High) and must both use a verb of divine origination/impelling rather than a verb of mere human insight, so that 2 Peter 1:21’s चलाओल गेल and 2 Timothy 3:16’s “God-breathed” concept read as complementary, not contradictory, claims about the same doctrine (शास्त्रक प्रेरणा).

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PART 2 — Chapter 2

Passage	Theme	Related Character(s)	OT/NT Connection	Translation Sensitivity
2 Peter 2:1	False teachers foretold; denial of the Master who bought them	Peter, false teachers	Deuteronomy 13:1–5 and Deuteronomy 18:20 (test of a false prophet); Matthew 24:11 (false prophets arise)	झूठा शिक्षक/झूठा भविष्यद्वक्ता (High) — establishes false teaching as a recurring pattern rooted in OT prophetic warning, not a novel NT problem; translator notes may cite Deuteronomy’s “false prophet” test as background once Deuteronomy is translated.
2 Peter 2:4	Judgment of the fallen angels	Fallen angels	Genesis 6:1–4 (“the sons of God saw the daughters of man”); Jude 1:6 (angels who left their proper dwelling)	अन्धकारमय गड्ढा (Critical) — never नरक/पाताल. Note the close verbal parallel with Jude 1:6; if Jude is ever added to this language pipeline, the identical descriptive-phrase (not named-realm) strategy must be reused.
2 Peter 2:5	Noah, herald of righteousness; the Flood as judgment-and-preservation	Noah	Genesis 6:1–8:22 (the Flood narrative); Matthew 24:37–39 (“as were the days of Noah”); 1 Peter 3:20 (eight souls preserved through water)	Noah functions as a positive counter-example to the false teachers: a “herald of righteousness” (धार्मिकताक प्रचारक) preserved through judgment. धार्मिकता must stay Critical-consistent. The Flood itself (κατακλυσμός) should render with a plain descriptive word for a flood/deluge (e.g., बाढ़ि or जलप्लावन) — never प्रलय, since प्रलय carries the Hindu cosmological sense of a cyclical, world-ending dissolution preceding a fresh creation, which would blur Noah’s Flood (a singular past historical judgment) with the pralaya framework the letter’s whole argument in chapter 3 works to exclude.
2 Peter 2:6	Sodom and Gomorrah as example	Inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah	Genesis 19:1–29; Deuteronomy 29:23; Luke 17:28–29	उदाहरण (example, Low). Ensure the judgment described is read as moral-relational (ungodliness, ἀσέλγεια) consistent with परमेश्वरहीन, not recast through any local purity/impurity framework.
2 Peter 2:7–9	Lot rescued from destruction	Lot	Genesis 19:15–29; Luke 17:28–32	छोड़ाएब/बचाएब (rescue, Low–Medium). This is a temporal, this-worldly rescue-from-disaster, and must be kept distinct from उद्धार (final salvation) so as not to flatten the letter’s distinction between historical deliverance-illustrations and eschatological salvation itself.
2 Peter 2:10–11	Despising authority (κυριότης)	False teachers, angelic beings (implied)	Jude 1:8–9 (Michael the archangel disputing with the devil)	प्रभुत्व (Medium) built on the प्रभु root; keep distinct from δεσπότης/स्वामी (2:1) and from κύριος/प्रभु itself — three related-but-distinct terms in close proximity requiring careful disambiguation in review.
2 Peter 2:15–16	Balaam’s error; the speaking donkey	Balaam, Balaam’s donkey	Numbers 22:21–35; Numbers 31:16; Jude 1:11	This is a historically-affirmed miracle account (a donkey rebuking a prophet), cited by Peter as sober fact in the very same letter that opens by rejecting “cleverly devised myths” (2 Peter 1:16). Translators must render this account with the same historical-narrative register as the rest of the epistle — not with any linguistic marker (e.g., a “once upon a time” folk-tale opener common in oral Maithili storytelling convention) that would inadvertently align it with the μῦθος category Peter explicitly disowns. लोभ (greed, Low) names Balaam’s besetting sin.
2 Peter 2:19	Slaves of corruption (counterfeit freedom)	False teachers, their followers	Romans 6:16–22 (slaves of sin vs. slaves of righteousness/obedience, leading to sanctification)	Direct structural parallel to Romans 6: both texts use δοῦλος (दास) as a slavery metaphor with a stark either/or (Christ vs. corruption; righteousness vs. sin). The deliberate contrast between Peter’s own glad self-designation as Christ’s दास (2 Peter 1:1) and this negative “slaves of भ्रष्टता” (2 Peter 2:19) must survive translation exactly as flagged in analysis/07–08, and should be taught alongside Romans 6:16–22 as a matched pair.
2 Peter 2:22	Proverb of the dog and the sow	(proverbial, unnamed)	Proverbs 26:11 (“Like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool who repeats his folly”) — direct quotation; the sow-proverb is an extra-biblical near-eastern proverb Peter cites alongside it, not itself an OT quotation	Proverbs 26:11 is a verbatim OT citation and must match the eventual Proverbs-curriculum Maithili rendering when produced; flag this verse now as a placeholder pending that package. The sow-proverb requires a translator note clarifying it is a common saying Peter invokes for illustration, not itself inspired Scripture, so as not to imply the doctrine of Scripture’s inspiration extends to every saying quoted within Scripture’s pages.

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PART 3 — Chapter 3

Passage	Theme	Related Character(s)	OT/NT Connection	Translation Sensitivity
2 Peter 3:1–2	Reminder of prophetic word and apostolic commandment	Holy prophets, apostles, Peter	continuity with 2 Peter 1:19–21	आज्ञा (commandment, Low–Medium) kept distinct from व्यवस्था (Mosaic Law, TM-fixed). भविष्यद्वक्ता reused exactly.
2 Peter 3:3–4	Scoffers deny the promise of Christ’s coming	Scoffers	continuity with 2 Peter 1:16, 3:12	परओसिया/आगमन (Critical) reused exactly; scoffers’ argument (“all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation”) sets up the creation-cosmology contrast addressed next.
2 Peter 3:5–6	Creation by God’s word; the world judged by water	(implicit: God, Noah’s generation)	Genesis 1:6–9 (waters separated by God’s word); Genesis 7:11–24 (the Flood)	सृष्टि (High) must read as God’s one historical act of origination, not one phase of a सृष्टि-स्थिति-प्रलय cycle. The Flood reference here reinforces the ch. 2 instruction: render with a plain flood-word, never प्रलय, so this verse and 2 Peter 2:5 use one consistent, non-cyclical vocabulary for the same historical event.
2 Peter 3:7	Present heavens/earth reserved for fire and judgment	—	continuity with Genesis 1 creation-order theme	विनाश/न्याय (High) reused; sets up the “Day of the Lord” climax below.
2 Peter 3:8	God’s relationship to time	—	Psalm 90:4 (“a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday”) — direct allusion/near-quotation	This verse must be flagged now as requiring identical Maithili phrasing to the eventual Psalms-curriculum rendering of Psalm 90:4, since 2 Peter is directly restating that verse’s content. Ties directly to the “Patience of God’s Timing” doctrine.
2 Peter 3:9	God’s patience; desire that all reach repentance	—	Romans 2:4 (“God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance”); Romans 9:22 (“vessels of wrath… endured with much patience” — same Greek word μακροθυμία as here); Ezekiel 33:11 (“I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked”); 1 Timothy 2:4 (“[God] desires all people to be saved”)	High-priority cross-curriculum flag: Romans 9:22 uses the identical Greek term μακροθυμία translated here as सहनशीलता, but the Romans baseline translation_memory.json does not currently contain a fixed term for “patience/longsuffering.” This document recommends that when Romans 9:22 is next reviewed or any future Romans revision occurs, सहनशीलता be adopted there as well, so that Paul’s and Peter’s shared vocabulary for God’s forbearance toward those not yet judged remains one consistent Maithili term across both curricula. पश्चाताप (repentance, High) reused exactly; must never use प्रायश्चित्त.
2 Peter 3:10	The Day of the Lord comes as a thief	—	1 Thessalonians 5:2 (“the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night”); Matthew 24:43; Joel 2:1; Amos 5:18–20; Zephaniah 1:14–18; Isaiah 13:6, 9	प्रभुक दिन (Critical) is the NT’s own name for the OT prophetic “Day of YHWH” tradition (Joel, Amos, Zephaniah, Isaiah). This phrase must render identically wherever it recurs across any future curriculum drawing on these OT prophetic books or on 1 Thessalonians 5, Matthew 24, or 2 Thessalonians (already named in this language package’s tag list). The चोर (thief) simile is verbally identical to 1 Thessalonians 5:2 and Matthew 24:43 and should be rendered with the same Maithili idiom in all three places.
2 Peter 3:12	Hastening the coming of the Day of God	Believers	continuity with 2 Peter 1:16, 3:4	आगमन reused exactly; “hastening” (σπεύδοντας) should render with an active verb of eager anticipation, not passive fatalistic waiting — consistency with the सहनशीलता note above (active divine patience answered by active human expectancy, not resignation).
2 Peter 3:13	New heavens and a new earth	—	Isaiah 65:17 (“I create new heavens and a new earth”); Isaiah 66:22; Revelation 21:1 (direct verbal quotation/allusion)	नव्य/नूतन आकाश आ पृथ्वी must be flagged now for future Isaiah- and Revelation-curriculum consistency, since all three passages describe the identical eschatological reality using closely parallel language. दिमे धार्मिकता वास करैत अछि (“in which righteousness dwells”) reuses धार्मिकता exactly (Critical).
2 Peter 3:15–16	Paul’s letters as Scripture; the patience of the Lord as salvation	Paul (named), Peter	Direct cross-reference to the entire Pauline corpus, explicitly including material overlapping with Romans (this pipeline’s own baseline curriculum)	See dedicated Part 4 below — the single most important cross-curriculum linkage point in this book.
2 Peter 3:17–18	Warning against error; call to grow; closing doxology	Peter, believers, Christ	Romans 11:36 and Romans 16:27 (closing doxology forms); 2 Corinthians 13:11 (grow, be at peace)	भ्रम (High, never माया) reused. The closing doxology “to him be glory both now and to the day of eternity” must be rendered in a structure parallel to the Romans baseline’s own doxology conventions — see Part 5, Rule 2 below.

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PART 4 — Special Focus: 2 Peter 3:15–16 and the Romans Cross-Reference

2 Peter 3:15–16 is the single most consequential cross-curriculum linkage point in this book, because Peter explicitly names Paul and explicitly treats Paul’s letters as “Scripture” (γραφαί) alongside “the other Scriptures” — directly invoking the very doctrine (“The Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture”) this curriculum is built around, and doing so by direct reference to the corpus this language pair’s baseline curriculum (Romans) belongs to.

Textual content: “And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.”

Cross-reference implications:

1. Direct doctrinal echo of Romans 2:4 and Romans 9:22. Peter’s phrase “count the patience of our Lord as salvation” directly restates the logic of Romans 2:4 (God’s kindness/forbearance is meant to lead to repentance) and Romans 9:22 (God’s μακροθυμία toward vessels of wrath). See Part 3 above for the recommended सहनशीलता consistency fix.
2. Paul’s letters named as γραφαί (Scripture). This requires the rendering पवित्र शास्त्र (already fixed for γραφή at 2 Peter 1:20 and 3:16) to be understood by the translation team as extending, in Peter’s own usage, to the Pauline corpus — meaning Romans itself is, within the logic of this very verse, an instance of the “प्रवित्र शास्त्र” 2 Peter is defending as God-breathed. Phase 2 translator notes for 2 Peter 3:15–16 should make this connection explicit for teaching purposes.
3. “Hard to understand” (δυσνόητα) and “twisted” (στρεβλόω). These should render with plain, non-technical Maithili vocabulary (e.g., कठिन बुझबाक, “hard to understand”; अर्थ बिगाड़ब, “to distort the meaning”) so as not to suggest that Paul’s letters are inherently obscure or mystical in a way that would invite the very ज्ञान/jñāna-adjacent esoteric-insight framing already flagged Critical for ἐπίγνωσις/γνῶσις in analysis/07 — the danger here is precisely that unstable readers seek a private gnosis rather than the plain apostolic sense.
4. Consistency mandate: Any Maithili phrase used elsewhere in the Romans package to describe Paul’s own apostolic authority (cf. प्रेरित, Romans 1:1) should be reusable without modification when 2 Peter 3:15–16 refers back to “our beloved brother Paul…according to the wisdom given him” — both texts describe the same historical person under the same doctrine of apostleship.

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PART 5 — Rendering-Consistency Rules for Shared Quotations and Terms

1. All terms already fixed in the Romans baseline translation_memory.json must be reused in 2 Peter with zero deviation, per the enforcement priority order in 12_ai_translation_requirements.md. This includes, at minimum, the following terms shared across the two books’ cross-references above: righteousness (धार्मिकता), grace (अनुग्रह), peace (शान्ति), lord (प्रभु), god (परमेश्वर), jesus (यीशु), holy_spirit (पवित्र आत्मा), sin (पाप), called/calling (बजाओल/बजाओल जाएब), election (परमेश्वरक चुनाव), power_of_god (सामर्थ्य), apostle (प्रेरित), messiah/christ (ख्रीष्ट/मसीह), kingdom_of_god (परमेश्वरक राज्य), fellowship-root (सङ्गति).

2. Doxology structure. The closing doxology at 2 Peter 3:18 (“to him be glory both now and to the day of eternity”) must follow the same Maithili doxological syntax already established for Romans 11:36 and Romans 16:27 in the baseline package — honorific verb agreement for God/Christ (छथि-register), महिमा (TM-fixed) as the noun, and आमीन transliterated per the baseline’s transliteration standards.

3. Epistolary greeting formula. 2 Peter 1:2 (“Grace and peace be multiplied to you”) must render with the same अनुग्रह-आ-शान्ति word pair and clause order already fixed for Romans 1:7, adjusted only for the “multiplied” (πληθυνθείη) verb, which is new to this book and should render with a plain intensifying verb (e.g., बढ़ैत रहय, “may it continue to increase”) rather than a novel synonym for grace or peace themselves.

4. The “slave” metaphor (δοῦλος). Both Romans 1:1 and 2 Peter 1:1 open with the author’s self-designation as a δοῦλος of Christ, yet the Romans baseline translation_memory.json does not currently register a fixed term for this word. This document recommends that दास (as adopted for 2 Peter in analysis/07–08) be retrofitted into the Romans package at the next translation-memory version increment, so that Paul’s and Peter’s identical self-designations render identically, and so that the sharp दास/भ्रष्टताक दास contrast Peter builds in 1:1 vs. 2:19 is legible against the same baseline vocabulary Paul uses of himself and, in Romans 6:16–22, of believers generally.

5. The “patience” family (μακροθυμία). As detailed in Part 3 above, सहनशीलता should be treated as the single fixed Maithili rendering for μακροθυμία across both curricula (2 Peter 3:9, 3:15; Romans 9:22), distinct from धीरज (ὑπομονή, endurance) which remains a separate, TM-distinct term.

6. The “Day of the Lord” family. प्रभुक दिन (2 Peter 3:10) must be reserved for this specific eschatological technical term and must render identically in any future curriculum touching 1 Thessalonians 5, 2 Thessalonians, Matthew 24, or the OT prophetic “Day of YHWH” texts (Joel, Amos, Zephaniah, Isaiah) cited above.

7. Flood vocabulary. κατακλυσμός (“flood,” 2 Peter 2:5, 3:6) must render with a plain descriptive word for a flood/deluge (e.g., बाढ़ि) and must never use प्रलय, reserving that avoidance consistently across both the Noah references in chapter 2 and the creation-argument references in chapter 3, so that Noah’s Flood is never assimilated to the cyclical Hindu cosmological pralaya already flagged as a risk for κτίσις and ἡμέρα κυρίου.

8. OT verbatim quotations pending a future OT curriculum. Proverbs 26:11 (2 Peter 2:22), Psalm 90:4 (2 Peter 3:8), and Isaiah 65:17/66:22 (2 Peter 3:13) are direct or near-direct quotations. Because no OT curriculum yet exists in this language pipeline, this document records these as placeholder consistency flags: whichever Maithili rendering Phase 2 selects for these verses in 2 Peter must be logged in translation_memory.json under the underlying OT reference (not only under the 2 Peter verse) so that a future Proverbs, Psalms, or Isaiah curriculum inherits the identical wording rather than independently retranslating the same OT text.

9. Miracle/historical-narrative register. Any 2 Peter passage recounting a historical OT event that a skeptical reader might dismiss as legendary (Genesis 6 fallen angels/Nephilim background at 2 Peter 2:4; Numbers 22 Balaam’s donkey at 2 Peter 2:15–16) must be rendered in the same plain historical-narrative register as the rest of the epistle, never in a folk-tale register, consistent with the letter’s own opening rejection of “cleverly devised myths” (2 Peter 1:16).

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PART 6 — Messianic References Summary

Reference	Content	OT Root	Doctrine Tie-In
2 Peter 1:1	”our God and Savior Jesus Christ” (Granville Sharp construction identifying Jesus as God)	—	Deity of Christ (Critical); parallel to Romans 9:5
2 Peter 1:11, 3:2, 3:18	”our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (fixed formula)	—	Lordship of Christ (Critical) + Salvation (Critical) combined title; उद्धारकर्ता built on उद्धार
2 Peter 1:17	Father’s declaration of the Son at the Transfiguration	Psalm 2:7; Isaiah 42:1	Sonship of Christ (Critical)
2 Peter 1:19	Morning star (φωσφόρος)	Numbers 24:17	Messianic Promise (Critical); Certainty of Christ’s Return
2 Peter 3:4, 3:12	The Parousia awaited/hastened	—	Certainty of Christ’s Return (Critical)
2 Peter 3:18	Doxology addressed to Christ	Romans 9:5, 11:36 (doxology to God applied to Christ)	Deity of Christ (Critical)

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PART 7 — Typological Summary

Type	Antitype / Fulfillment	Passage(s)	Notes
Noah preserved through the Flood	Believers preserved through final judgment	2 Peter 2:5, 3:5–6; Genesis 6–8; Matthew 24:37–39; 1 Peter 3:20	Judgment-and-preservation pattern; must not be rendered with प्रलय (see Part 5, Rule 7).
Lot rescued from Sodom	Believers rescued from the coming wrath	2 Peter 2:7–9; Genesis 19; Luke 17:28–32	Temporal rescue distinct from final उद्धार.
Balaam, the mercenary prophet	Archetype of the false teacher motivated by greed	2 Peter 2:15–16; Numbers 22–24; Jude 1:11	Historical-narrative register required (Part 5, Rule 9).
The Transfiguration	Preview/guarantee of the Parousia’s glory	2 Peter 1:16–18; Matthew 17:1–8	Peter’s own stated purpose in citing it: eyewitness confirmation of the coming power and glory of Christ.
The Flood (water judgment)	The Day of the Lord (fire judgment)	2 Peter 3:5–7	Explicit internal typology within the letter itself: past judgment guarantees future judgment.

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Summary of Full Coverage

Chapter	OT quotations/allusions identified	Messianic references	Typology	Romans/cross-curriculum parallels
1	Psalm 2:7; Isaiah 42:1; Exodus 24:15–18; Numbers 24:17; 2 Timothy 3:16	1:1, 1:17, 1:19	Transfiguration as preview of Parousia	Romans 1:7, 1:17, 3:22, 5:3–5, 8:28–30, 8:29, 9:5, 11:29
2	Genesis 6:1–4; Genesis 19:1–29; Numbers 22:21–35; Deuteronomy 13/18; Proverbs 26:11	— (indirect: Master who “bought” them, 2:1)	Noah; Lot; Balaam	Romans 6:16–22; Jude 1:6,8–9,11 (non-curriculum parallel, noted)
3	Genesis 1:6–9; Genesis 7:11–24; Psalm 90:4; Isaiah 65:17; Isaiah 66:22; Joel 2:1; Amos 5:18–20; Zephaniah 1:14–18; Isaiah 13:6,9	3:4, 3:12, 3:18	Flood judgment as type of the Day of the Lord	Romans 2:4, 9:22, 11:36, 16:27; 1 Thessalonians 5:2; Matthew 24:43

No chapter of 2 Peter lacks OT grounding, messianic significance, typological pattern, or Romans-curriculum linkage; every chapter is explicitly accounted for above.

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Cross-reference: analysis/07_semantic_analysis.md and analysis/08_core_glossary.md for term-level treatment underlying every rendering-sensitivity note above. All Critical/High cross-reference points above require Human Theologian review before Phase 2 approval, per the routing conventions established in the Romans baseline doctrine_risk_registry.json.