Core Glossary

08 — Core Glossary: 2 Thessalonians — Maithili

This glossary covers every load-bearing theological term identified in 07_semantic_analysis.md, drawn from all three chapters of 2 Thessalonians. Terms already recorded in the baseline Romans translation_memory.json are marked [REUSED] and reproduced here with their baseline rendering unchanged, for curriculum completeness — they must never be re-translated or altered for this curriculum. All other terms are new entries proposed for this curriculum and must be added to translation_memory.json at Phase 2 Step 16 with the risk levels below.

Section A — Reused Terms from Romans Baseline (Enforce Exactly, No Deviation)

English Term	Maithili	Transliteration	Doctrine Category	Risk	Key 2 Thessalonians Passages
Gospel	सुसमाचार	susamācār	Gospel	High	1:8, 2:14, 3:1
Grace	अनुग्रह	anugraha	Grace	High	1:2, 1:12, 2:16, 3:18
Faith	विश्वास	biswas	Faith	High	1:3–4, 1:11, 2:13, 3:2–3
Salvation	उद्धार	uddhār	Salvation	Critical	2:10, 2:13
Called / Calling	बजाओल / बजाओल जाएब	bajāol / bajāol jāeb	Divine Calling	High	1:11, 2:14
Holy	पवित्र	pavitra	Sanctification	High	(implied, “holy” believers throughout)
Saints	पवित्र जन	pavitra jan	Sainthood	High	1:10
Sanctification	पवित्रीकरण	pavitrīkaraṇ	Sanctification	High	2:13
Lord	प्रभु	prabhu	Lordship of Christ	Critical	1:7–9, 2:1–2, 2:8, 3:1, 3:3–5, 3:16
Church	मण्डली	maṇḍalī	Church as God’s People	Medium	1:1, 1:4
Kingdom of God	परमेश्वरक राज्य	parameśvarak rājya	Kingdom Mission	Medium	1:5
Peace	शान्ति	śānti	Peace with God	Medium	1:2, 3:16
Thanksgiving	धन्यवाद	dhanyavād	Thanksgiving	Low	1:3, 2:13
Power of God	परमेश्वरक सामर्थ्य	parameśvarak sāmarthya	Power of God	High	1:11, 2:9 (qualified: शैतानक सामर्थ्य)
Glory	महिमा	mahimā	Deity of Christ	High	1:9–10, 1:12, 2:14
Father	पिता	pitā	Adoption/God’s Fatherhood	Critical	1:1–2, 2:16
Jesus	यीशु	Yīśu	Lordship of Christ	Critical	Throughout
God	परमेश्वर	parameśvar	Deity of Christ	Critical	Throughout
Exhort (encourage)	उत्साहित करब	utsāhit karab	Mutual Edification	Low	2:17
Fellowship (root reused for “not associate”)	सङ्गति	saṅgati	Christian Fellowship	Low	3:14 (negated)

Section B — New Terms for This Curriculum

B1. Day of the Lord Doctrine

English Term	Maithili	Transliteration	Original Greek	Definition	Risk	Alternatives Rejected	Primary Passages
Day of the Lord	प्रभुक दिन	prabhuk din	ἡ ἡμέρα τοῦ κυρίου	God’s decisive future intervention in judgment and salvation, a singular, unrepeatable historical event	Critical	प्रलय (Puranic cyclical cosmic dissolution — impersonal, recurring); कयामत (borrowed apocalyptic term from another tradition, unfamiliar/foreign register)	2:2
Coming / Parousia	आगमन	āgaman	παρουσία	Christ’s promised, future, visible, bodily return (also used ironically of the lawless one’s counterfeit “coming”)	High	अवतरण (avataraṇ, “avatar-descent” — collides directly with Vaishnava cyclical-incarnation theology)	2:1, 2:8, 2:9
Manifestation / Appearing	प्रकटन	prakaṭan	ἐπιφάνεια	The visible, glorious, undeniable manifestation of Christ’s parousia	High	ज्योति-प्रकाश (light-radiance imagery, risks conflation with Puranic divine-luster descriptions, per baseline’s “glory” ruling)	2:8
”has come” (present arrival, not mere nearness)	आबि गेल अछि	ābi gel achi	ἐνέστηκεν (perfect tense)	The false claim being corrected: that the Day of the Lord had already, presently arrived	High	लगे अछि (“is near” — flattens the crucial tense distinction Paul is correcting)	2:2
Revealed / Unveiled	प्रकट कएल जाएब	prakaṭ kael jāeb	ἀποκαλυφθῇ / ἀποκαλυφθήσεται	Public unveiling of a previously hidden reality — used of both the lawless one (2:3, 2:8) and, by verbal echo, of Christ (1:7)	High	Must render identically across all three occurrences to preserve the deliberate literary parallel between the two “revealings.”	1:7, 2:3, 2:8
Gathering together	एकट्ठा होयब	ekaṭṭhā hoyab	ἐπισυναγωγή	Believers’ being gathered to Christ at his coming	Medium	—	2:1

B2. Man of Lawlessness Doctrine

English Term	Maithili	Transliteration	Original Greek	Definition	Risk	Alternatives Rejected	Primary Passages
Man of Lawlessness	व्यवस्थाहीनताक पुरुष	vyavasthāhīnatāk puruṣ	ὁ ἄνθρωπος τῆς ἀνομίας	The singular end-times figure who embodies and enacts total rebellion against God’s revealed will	Critical	अधर्मी पुरुष (rejected — reframes the figure within the region’s own dharma-adharma cosmic-order framework rather than as one who rejects God’s specifically revealed law, paralleling the baseline’s rejection of धर्म for “law” and “righteousness”)	2:3
Lawlessness	व्यवस्थाहीनता	vyavasthāhīnatā	ἀνομία	Willful rejection of God’s revealed law/order, not mere social disorder	Critical	अधर्म (same collision reasoning as above)	2:3, 2:7
The lawless one	व्यवस्थाहीन जन	vyavasthāhīn jan	ὁ ἄνομος	Substantival adjective form of the above, used as a shorthand title	Critical	Must render on the same root as “man of lawlessness” for reader recognition	2:8
Son of Destruction	विनाशक पुत्र	vināśak putra	ὁ υἱὸς τῆς ἀπωλείας	Hebraic idiom marking this figure’s certain destiny: destruction — a deliberate dark counterpart to “Son of God”	Critical	Must retain पुत्र (as in परमेश्वरक पुत्र, baseline) to preserve the intentional contrastive parallel	2:3
The Restrainer (impersonal)	रोकनहार तत्व	rokanhār tattva	τὸ κατέχον	The presently unnamed restraining factor delaying the lawless one’s revelation (neuter form)	High	Must not be resolved to a single named identity (e.g. “the Holy Spirit”) — the ambiguity is original to the text	2:6
The Restrainer (personal)	रोकनहार	rokanhār	ὁ κατέχων	The same restraining reality referred to as a personal agent (masculine form)	High	Same term family as above; the neuter-to-masculine shift must be flagged in a translator note, as Maithili grammar does not mark it as sharply as Greek	2:7
Satan	शैतान	śaitān	Σατανᾶς	The singular, personal, God-opposing adversary	Medium-High	Must not be conflated with a mischievous trickster-spirit or a defeated asura/demon-king figure from regional Puranic narrative	2:9
Mystery	रहस्य	rahasya	μυστήριον	A previously hidden divine purpose now being disclosed (Pauline technical sense), not an occult secret	Medium	— (gloss recommended at first occurrence to prevent tantric-esoteric association)	2:7
Temple of God	परमेश्वरक मन्दिर	parameśvarak mandir	ναὸς τοῦ θεοῦ	God’s own sanctuary, profaned by the lawless one’s self-enthronement as God	Critical	Distinct referent from “church” (मण्डली), for which मन्दिर remains forbidden per baseline; mandatory translator note required to prevent confusion between the two	2:4
Object of worship	पूजाक वस्तु	pūjāk vastu	σέβασμα	Any object receiving cultic devotion, referenced critically here as what the lawless one usurps	Medium	Contextually distinct from generic Hindu पूजा practice; not an endorsement of the category	2:4
Signs and wonders (false)	चिन्ह आ अद्भुत काज	cinha ā adbhut kāj	σημεῖα καὶ τέρατα	Satan-empowered false miracles, deceptive rather than genuinely divine	High	Must be explicitly marked false in translator notes, given the region’s rich devotional literature of avatar/sage wonder-working	2:9
The Lie	झूठ	jhūṭh	τὸ ψεῦδος	The singular ultimate deception — the lawless one’s self-deification claim — as a counter-reality to “the Truth”	Medium-High	—	2:9, 2:11
Working of delusion	भरम पैदा करएवाला सामर्थ्य	bharam paidā karaevālā sāmarthya	ἐνέργεια πλάνης	God’s judicial hardening of those who preferred the lie, sent in response to willful prior rejection of truth	Critical	Must be tied explicitly to a personal God’s judicial act, never to impersonal karmic mechanism	2:11
Unrighteousness	अधार्मिकता	adhārmiktā	ἀδικία	Direct antonym of baseline “righteousness” (धार्मिकता)	Critical	Must track baseline धार्मिकता ruling exactly; never धर्म-based vocabulary	2:10, 2:12
Love of the truth	सत्यताक प्रेम	satyatāk prem	ἡ ἀγάπη τῆς ἀληθείας	Willed, self-giving love directed toward God’s truth	High	Must be distinguished from शृंगारिक प्रेम (romantic-devotional love, per Vidyapati tradition, per baseline covenant/grace notes)	2:10
Truth	सत्यता	satyatā	ἀλήθεια	God’s revealed truth, as opposed to “the Lie”	Medium	—	2:10, 2:12, 2:13
Judgment (verdict)	न्याय	nyāy	κρίσις / κρίνω	God’s forensic verdict	Critical	Directly tied to “God’s Righteous Judgment” doctrine below	2:12, 1:5

B3. Perseverance under Persecution Doctrine

English Term	Maithili	Transliteration	Original Greek	Definition	Risk	Alternatives Rejected	Primary Passages
Perseverance / Endurance	धीरज	dhīraj	ὑπομονή	Active, hope-fueled steadfastness under pressure, grounded in God’s promised future justice	High	सहनशीलता used in a resigned/fatalistic sense (risks reading as passive karmic acceptance of suffering)	1:4, 3:5
Persecution	उत्पीड़न	utpīḍan	διωγμός	Active hostility endured by believers for their faith	Medium	सताव (too colloquial/weak for doctrinal weight)	1:4
Affliction / Tribulation	कष्ट	kaṣṭ	θλῖψις	Pressure, distress, hardship endured by believers	Medium	क्लेश (rejected — collides with the Yogic/Samkhya technical category of the five kleshas binding the soul to rebirth)	1:4, 1:6
Do not grow weary in doing good	हिम्मत नहि हारब	himmat nahi hārab	μὴ ἐγκακήσητε καλοποιοῦντες	Sustained perseverance extended to ordinary good conduct, not only active persecution	Medium	—	3:13
The Lord is faithful	विश्वासयोग्य (प्रभु)	biswasyogya (prabhu)	πιστός (ὁ κύριος)	God’s own trustworthy, unshakeable character, grounding believers’ confidence and endurance	High	Must be distinguished from human “faith” (विश्वास exercised) while remaining visibly built on the same root	3:3

B4. God’s Righteous Judgment Doctrine

English Term	Maithili	Transliteration	Original Greek	Definition	Risk	Alternatives Rejected	Primary Passages
Righteous judgment	धर्मी न्याय	dharmī nyāy	δικαία κρίσις	God’s forensic verdict, rendered justly in accordance with his own righteous character	Critical	Must never use धर्म-based vocabulary reframing this as cosmic-order restoration; built on baseline’s established धर्मी adjective	1:5
Vengeance / Retribution	दण्ड	daṇḍa	ἐκδίκησις	God’s own righteous punishment on those who reject the gospel, personally executed at Christ’s revelation	High	बदला (too personally vindictive-sounding); avoid any framing suggesting impersonal karmic ledger-balancing	1:8
Eternal destruction	अनन्त विनाश	anant vināś	ὄλεθρος αἰώνιος	Permanent, final, irreversible ruin — everlasting exclusion from God’s presence	Critical	Must not be softened into a temporary purgative process or a stage within an ongoing rebirth cycle	1:9
Away from the Lord’s presence	प्रभुक उपस्थितिसँ दूर	prabhuk upasthitisã̃ dūr	ἀπὸ προσώπου τοῦ κυρίου	Permanent banishment from God’s presence — the essence of the punishment	High	Must not imply eventual reunion or a reincarnation-based re-approach to God	1:9
Will be judged	न्याय कएल जाएत	nyāy kael jāet	κριθῶσιν	The certain future forensic verdict against those who preferred unrighteousness	Critical	Passive compound style, consistent with baseline’s justification pattern	2:12
Sent [by God]	पठबैत छथि	paṭhabait chathi	πέμπει	God’s active, judicial, personal sending of judgment — honorific verb form required for God as subject	High	—	2:11

B5. Standing Firm in the Traditions Doctrine

English Term	Maithili	Transliteration	Original Greek	Definition	Risk	Alternatives Rejected	Primary Passages
Traditions	सौंपल गेल शिक्षा	saumpal gel śikṣā	παράδοσις	Apostolic teaching entrusted/handed down by word or letter, to be firmly retained	Critical	परम्परा (paramparā) — rejected because it names guru-parampara, the region’s own authoritative teacher-to-disciple lineage-transmission model, which would wrongly reframe Paul’s apostolic authority as functioning like a guru-lineage rather than delegated apostolic revelation; रीति-रिवाज (custom/ritual practice) — rejected as too weak, reducing apostolic teaching to mere cultural custom	2:15, 3:6
Stand firm	डटल रहू	ḍaṭal rahū	στήκετε	Steadfast persistence in the received apostolic teaching	High	—	2:15
Hold fast	थामल राखू	thāmal rākhū	κρατεῖτε	Firmly retaining the traditions/teaching	Medium	—	2:15
Disorderly / idle	अनुशासनहीन ढंगसँ	anuśāsanhīn ḍhaṅgasã̃	ἀτάκτως / ἀτακτέω	Living in a manner contrary to received apostolic instruction, specifically refusing to work	Medium	Connects wrong eschatological belief (ch. 2) to wrong ethical practice (ch. 3)	3:6, 3:7, 3:11
Example / Pattern	उदाहरण	udāharaṇ	τύπος	A model of conduct deliberately given for others to imitate	Medium	आदर्श (ādarś) — rejected because it activates the Sita-as-ādarś-nārī achieved-virtue exemplar framing already flagged as a grace-collision risk in the baseline	3:9
Authority / Right	अधिकार	adhikār	ἐξουσία	Paul’s legitimate right (as an apostle) to receive material support, voluntarily foregone as a model	Medium	—	3:9
Admonish	चेताएब	cetāeb	νουθετέω	Corrective warning offered out of care, aimed at restoration, not hostility	Low-Medium	—	3:15
Ashamed	लज्जित होयब	lajjit hoyab	ἐντρέπω	The intended restorative effect of church discipline	Medium	Flagged under honor/shame cultural-dynamics review (native speaker) given Mithila’s strong honor/shame social framework	3:14
Sign / authentication mark	चिन्ह	cinha	σημεῖον	Paul’s handwritten greeting, authenticating the letter against forgery — closes the loop opened at 2:2’s concern over a spurious letter	Low-Medium	Distinct sense from 2:9’s “signs and wonders”; do not conflate renderings	3:17

B6. Other Load-Bearing Terms (Supporting Vocabulary)

English Term	Maithili	Transliteration	Original Greek	Definition	Risk	Primary Passages
Love	प्रेम	prem	ἀγάπη	Willed, self-giving love (new term; no baseline entry exists in Romans TM)	High — collides with regional Vidyapati/Radha-Krishna romantic-devotional प्रेम tradition; gloss required at first occurrence	1:3, 2:10
Firstfruits	पहिल फल	pahil phal	ἀπαρχή	An early, representative installment of a larger harvest/ingathering	Medium	2:13
Obtaining of glory	महिमाक प्राप्ति	mahimāk prāpti	περιποίησις δόξης	Believers’ promised inheritance of Christ’s own glory	Medium	2:14
Establish / Strengthen	स्थिर करब	sthir karab	στηρίζω	To make firm, confirm in faith and conduct	Medium	2:17, 3:3
Delivered / Rescued	बचाओल जाएब	bacāol jāeb	ῥύομαι	This-worldly rescue from opposition, distinct from उद्धार’s full soteriological finality	Medium	3:2
Working (operative power)	सामर्थ्य	sāmarthya	ἐνέργεια	Operative power in action; reused deliberately for both God’s and Satan’s respective “workings” to preserve Paul’s ironic parallel (qualify with genitive: शैतानक / परमेश्वरक)	High	2:7, 2:9, 2:11
Quietness	शान्तिपूर्वक	śāntipūrvak	ἡσυχία	Settled, quiet manner of working, reusing established शान्ति root	Low	3:12

Cross-Reference Notes for Phase 2

All Section A terms load directly from the baseline translation_memory.json; no new entries are needed for them, only occurrence tracking in this curriculum.
All Section B terms are new and must be added to translation_memory.json (version incremented) and to bible_term_registry.json before Phase 2 segment translation begins, per the escalation rules in 12_ai_translation_requirements.md.
Terms flagged Critical here (प्रभुक दिन, व्यवस्थाहीनताक पुरुष, व्यवस्थाहीनता, व्यवस्थाहीन जन, विनाशक पुत्र, अधार्मिकता, अनन्त विनाश, न्याय कएल जाएत, धर्मी न्याय, भरम पैदा करएवाला सामर्थ्य, परमेश्वरक मन्दिर, सौंपल गेल शिक्षा) require human theologian review on every occurrence, consistent with baseline risk-tier conventions.
The चिन्ह/मन्दिर terms in this curriculum require special escalation because they revive baseline-adjacent vocabulary (सामर्थ्य, मन्दिर, महिमा) in new syntactic contexts (Satan’s power; God’s own profaned sanctuary) not anticipated by the Romans package; reviewers must confirm the qualifying context is always present in translated output.

Critical Risk Terms

Righteousness

Approved rendering: धार्मिकता
Transliteration: dhārmiktā
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: धर्म, पुण्य, सतीत्व

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. CRITICAL: never धर्म or सतीत्व. In 2 Thessalonians this protected root directly underlies the new coined term unrighteousness (अधार्मिकता, 2:10, 2:12); reviewers must confirm the negated form tracks this entry exactly.

Justification

Approved rendering: धर्मी घोषित कएल जाएब
Transliteration: dharmī ghoṣit kael jaeb
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: क्षमा भेटब, पुण्य कमाएब

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Forensic declaration of right standing. In 2 Thessalonians the protected adjective धर्मी from this compound is reused compositionally in the new coined term righteous_judgment (धर्मी न्याय, 1:5) and underlies the passive-compound pattern used for will_be_judged (न्याय कएल जाएत, 2:12); this term is not itself directly translated in 2 Thessalonians but its grammatical pattern is load-bearing precedent.

Salvation

Approved rendering: उद्धार
Transliteration: uddhār
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: मुक्ति, मोक्ष, छुटकारा
Original: σωτηρία
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. CRITICAL: NEVER मुक्ति or मोक्ष. In 2 Thessalonians: the deceived refuse to receive it (2:10) and God chose the Thessalonians ‘as firstfruits’ to it (2:13). Must be kept distinct from the new coined term delivered_rescued (बचाओल जाएब, 3:2), which names a this-worldly rescue, not final soteriological deliverance.

Lord

Approved rendering: प्रभु
Transliteration: prabhu
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: स्वामी, मालिक
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Consistent honorific verb agreement (छथि-family forms) required wherever Christ is subject. In 2 Thessalonians used heavily throughout (1:7-9, 2:1-2, 2:8, 3:1, 3:3-5, 3:16 including the striking title ‘the Lord of peace’).

Son Of God

Approved rendering: परमेश्वरक पुत्र
Transliteration: parameśvarak putra
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ईश्वरक अंश, देवपुरुष

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Not directly repeated as a title in 2 Thessalonians, but this entry’s पुत्र root is the deliberate structural anchor for the new coined term son_of_destruction (विनाशक पुत्र, 2:3), a dark counter-parallel; both terms must share पुत्र visibly.

Incarnation

Approved rendering: देहधारण
Transliteration: dehadhāraṇ
Doctrine: Incarnation
Rejected alternatives: अवतार, देह प्रकट

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. CRITICAL: NEVER अवतार. Not directly re-translated in 2 Thessalonians, but mandatory translator notes for the new coined terms parousia_coming (आगमन) and epiphaneia_manifestation (प्रकटन) must anchor back to this entry, clarifying Christ’s future coming is the singular return of the same, already-incarnate Christ, not a fresh or repeatable avatar-descent.

Father

Approved rendering: पिता
Transliteration: pitā
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Rejected alternatives: ब्रह्मा, सृष्टिकर्ता
Original: πατήρ
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Never ब्रह्मा. In 2 Thessalonians: opening greeting (1:1-2) and closing prayer-wish (2:16).

Jesus

Approved rendering: यीशु
Transliteration: Yīśu
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ईसा
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Never ईसा. Used throughout 2 Thessalonians.

God

Approved rendering: परमेश्वर
Transliteration: parameśvar
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: भगवान, ईश्वर
Original: θεός
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Never भगवान or ईश्वर alone. Referenced throughout 2 Thessalonians, notably as the grammatical subject of the honorific-verb actions sent_by_god (2:11) and repay_recompense (1:6).

Holy Spirit

Approved rendering: पवित्र आत्मा
Transliteration: pavitra ātmā
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: ब्रह्म, परमात्मा

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. CRITICAL: never ब्रह्म or परमात्मा alone. In 2 Thessalonians 2:13: ‘sanctification of the Spirit’ (ἁγιασμὸς πνεύματος). Note: 2:8’s ‘breath of his mouth’ (πνεῦμα τοῦ στόματος) is a DIFFERENT sense of πνεῦμα (‘breath’), not this term — translator note required distinguishing the two so आत्मा is never used for the 2:8 ‘breath’ phrase.

Messiah

Approved rendering: मसीह
Transliteration: masīh
Doctrine: Messianic Promise
Rejected alternatives: अभिषिक्त पुरुष, अवतारी पुरुष

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Used as part of the standard ‘Lord Jesus Christ’ formula (ख्रीष्ट/मसीह) throughout 2 Thessalonians’ greetings and doctrinal statements.

Imputed Righteousness

Approved rendering: आरोपित धार्मिकता
Transliteration: āropit dhārmiktā
Doctrine: Justification by Faith
Rejected alternatives: अर्जित धार्मिकता, सती-धर्म

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Not directly re-translated in 2 Thessalonians, but this entry’s reasoning (never सती-धर्म / Sita-modeled achieved-virtue exemplar) directly grounds the rejection of आदर्श for the new coined term example_pattern (उदाहरण, 3:9), since आदर्श in this culture activates the same Sita-as-ādarś-nārī achieved-virtue framing this entry warns against.

Day Of The Lord

Approved rendering: प्रभुक दिन
Transliteration: prabhuk din
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Rejected alternatives: प्रलय, कयामत, नाश-काल
Original: ἡ ἡμέρα τοῦ κυρίου
Category: Eschatology

New term for this curriculum. God’s singular, decisive, unrepeatable future intervention in judgment and salvation (2:2). Built on the established genitive -क + baseline प्रभु, minimizing new collision surface. NEVER प्रलय (Puranic impersonal, cyclically recurring cosmic dissolution ending a kalpa/yuga) and never कयामत (foreign apocalyptic borrowing, unfamiliar register). Mandatory translator note at first occurrence distinguishing this as one unrepeatable, personally-enacted day, not a cyclical event.

Parousia Coming

Approved rendering: आगमन
Transliteration: āgaman
Doctrine: Christ’s Coming (Parousia)
Rejected alternatives: अवतरण
Original: παρουσία
Category: Eschatology

New term for this curriculum. Christ’s promised, future, visible, bodily return (2:1, 2:8); deliberately reused for the lawless one’s counterfeit ‘coming’ (2:9) to preserve Paul’s ironic literary parallel — do not resolve into two different Maithili words. NEVER अवतरण, which would directly assimilate Christ’s return into Mithila’s own Vaishnava cyclical avatar-descent expectation (Mithila being the Ramayana’s own geographic setting). Mandatory translator note anchoring to baseline incarnation (देहधारण) at every occurrence.

Man Of Lawlessness

Approved rendering: व्यवस्थाहीनताक पुरुष
Transliteration: vyavasthāhīnatāk puruṣ
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Rejected alternatives: अधर्मी पुरुष, पापी, दुष्ट, असुर/राक्षस
Original: ὁ ἄνθρωπος τῆς ἀνομίας
Category: Eschatology

New term for this curriculum. The singular end-times figure embodying and enacting total rebellion against God’s revealed will (2:3). CRITICAL: never अधर्मी पुरुष — the common neighboring Hindi rendering, rejected because अधर्म frames this figure within the region’s dharma-adharma cosmic-order cosmology (one more cosmic disruptor, like an asura, eventually defeated so balance is restored) rather than as one who wilfully rejects God’s own specifically revealed law. Built compositionally on baseline’s protected व्यवस्था for consistency with the Romans package.

Lawlessness

Approved rendering: व्यवस्थाहीनता
Transliteration: vyavasthāhīnatā
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Rejected alternatives: अधर्म
Original: ἀνομία
Category: Eschatology

New term for this curriculum. Willful rejection of God’s revealed law/order, already secretly at work (2:7) and to be embodied fully in the man of lawlessness (2:3). CRITICAL: never अधर्म, same collision reasoning as man_of_lawlessness.

The Lawless One

Approved rendering: व्यवस्थाहीन जन
Transliteration: vyavasthāhīn jan
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Original: ὁ ἄνομος
Category: Eschatology

New term for this curriculum. Substantival shorthand title (2:8), Christ’s direct target of destruction. Must render on the identical root व्यवस्थाहीन- as man_of_lawlessness for reader recognition across verses.

Son Of Destruction

Approved rendering: विनाशक पुत्र
Transliteration: vināśak putra
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Original: ὁ υἱὸς τῆς ἀπωλείας
Category: Eschatology

New term for this curriculum. Hebraic idiom marking this figure’s certain destiny — destruction — a deliberate dark counterpart to परमेश्वरक पुत्र (Son of God, 2:3). Must retain पुत्र so the intentional contrastive parallel between the true, eternal Son and this false, doomed ‘son’ remains visible in Maithili.

Temple Of God

Approved rendering: परमेश्वरक मन्दिर
Transliteration: parameśvarak mandir
Doctrine: Profanation of God’s Temple
Original: ναὸς τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Eschatology

New term for this curriculum. God’s own sanctuary, profaned by the lawless one’s self-enthronement as God (2:4). EXCEPTION NOTE: this is the one context in the whole corpus where मन्दिर is contextually correct despite the baseline’s forbidding मन्दिर for ‘church’ — the referents differ (a real, profanable sanctuary vs. the congregation), and the passage’s shock value depends on this being a genuine sanctuary. Mandatory translator note required distinguishing this from मण्डली (church) and clarifying this is not an endorsement of temple/idol worship as a category.

Working Of Delusion

Approved rendering: भरम पैदा करएवाला सामर्थ्य
Transliteration: bharam paidā karaevālā sāmarthya
Doctrine: God’s Judicial Hardening (Working of Delusion)
Original: ἐνέργεια πλάνης
Category: Judgment

New term for this curriculum. God’s judicial act of sending a delusion confirming the willfully deceived in the lie they already preferred (2:11) — the letter’s most theologically loaded clause. Keeps सामर्थ्य consistent with 2:9’s rendering to preserve the shared ἐνέργεια root. Must be explicitly tied to the personal God’s deliberate judicial act in response to prior willful rejection of truth (2:10), never rendered as, or confused with, an impersonal karmic mechanism automatically returning error for error.

Unrighteousness

Approved rendering: अधार्मिकता
Transliteration: adhārmiktā
Doctrine: Love of the Truth versus the Lie
Rejected alternatives: अधर्म
Original: ἀδικία
Category: Sin

New term for this curriculum. Moral wrong, the direct antonym of baseline righteousness (धार्मिकता); the state those who reject the gospel take pleasure in (2:10, 2:12). Built directly on the baseline’s protected धार्मिकता with the negating अ- prefix; must never be rendered with धर्म-based vocabulary, for the identical collision reasons धार्मिकता itself is protected.

Judgment Verdict

Approved rendering: न्याय
Transliteration: nyāy
Doctrine: God’s Righteous Judgment
Original: κρίσις / κρίνω
Category: Judgment

New term for this curriculum. God’s forensic verdict against those who preferred unrighteousness (2:12), echoing the ‘righteous judgment’ of 1:5. Must read as a genuine, personal, forensic divine verdict, not an impersonal cosmic reckoning.

Righteous Judgment

Approved rendering: धर्मी न्याय
Transliteration: dharmī nyāy
Doctrine: God’s Righteous Judgment
Original: δικαία κρίσις τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Judgment

New term for this curriculum. God’s forensic verdict rendered justly in accordance with his own righteous character; present suffering is evidence pointing toward this future, certain verdict (1:5). Built on baseline’s established धर्मी adjective (from justification’s धर्मी घोषित कएल जाएब) plus न्याय; must never use धर्म-based vocabulary reframing this as impersonal cosmic-order restoration.

Eternal Destruction

Approved rendering: अनन्त विनाश
Transliteration: anant vināś
Doctrine: Eternal Destruction
Original: ὄλεθρος αἰώνιος
Category: Judgment

New term for this curriculum. Permanent, final, irreversible ruin — the fate of those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel (1:9). Must never be softened into a temporary purgative process or reframed as one stage within an ongoing rebirth/refinement cycle.

Will Be Judged

Approved rendering: न्याय कएल जाएत
Transliteration: nyāy kael jāet
Doctrine: God’s Righteous Judgment
Original: κριθῶσιν (aorist passive subj. of κρίνω)
Category: Judgment

New term for this curriculum. The certain future forensic verdict against all who did not believe the truth but took pleasure in unrighteousness (2:12). Passive compound rendering built in the same style as the baseline’s धर्मी घोषित कएल जाएब pattern, reading as native Maithili passive rather than transplanted Hindi construction.

Traditions

Approved rendering: सौंपल गेल शिक्षा
Transliteration: saumpal gel śikṣā
Doctrine: Standing Firm in the Traditions
Rejected alternatives: परम्परा, रीति-रिवाज, सम्प्रदाय
Original: παράδοσις
Category: Covenant

New term for this curriculum. Apostolic teaching entrusted and handed down by word of mouth or by letter, to be firmly retained (2:15) and the standard against which idle conduct is judged (3:6). CRITICAL: never परम्परा (paramparā), which names guru-parampara, Mithila’s own authoritative teacher-to-disciple lineage-transmission model — using it would wrongly reframe Paul’s apostolic authority as functioning like a guru-lineage rather than delegated apostolic revelation, paralleling the Panjikaran-genealogist pandit collision flagged in the Romans baseline. सम्प्रदाय rejected for the same institutional-lineage reason, in sharper form. रीति-रिवाज rejected as too weak, reducing apostolic teaching to mere custom. Must render identically at both occurrences (2:15, 3:6).

High Risk Terms

Gospel

Approved rendering: सुसमाचार
Transliteration: susamācār
Doctrine: Gospel
Rejected alternatives: नीक खबर, शुभ सन्देश
Original: εὐαγγέλιον
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Sanskrit tatsama term shared across Maithili and Hindi religious registers; retained as the rendering used in existing Maithili Scripture portions. In 2 Thessalonians occurs at 1:8, 2:14, 3:1 (Paul’s prayer that the gospel ‘may run’ and be glorified elsewhere depends on सुसमाचार retaining its weight as a unique, authoritative proclamation).

Grace

Approved rendering: अनुग्रह
Transliteration: anugraha
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: कृपा, दया, पुण्य, कर्मफल, भाग
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Must convey unmerited favor apart from human merit. In 2 Thessalonians appears in every epistolary greeting/benediction (1:2, 1:12, 2:16, 3:18), making cross-verse consistency especially visible to readers moving through this short letter in one sitting.

Faith

Approved rendering: विश्वास
Transliteration: biswas
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: श्रद्धा, भक्ति
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Trust placed in Christ specifically, not generalized bhakti devotional reverence. In 2 Thessalonians: the church’s ‘growing abundantly’ faith (1:3), Paul’s prayer regarding faith (1:11), the observation that ‘not all have faith’ (3:2), and the root for the new coined term lord_is_faithful (विश्वासयोग्य, 3:3).

Called

Approved rendering: बजाओल
Transliteration: bajāol
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Rejected alternatives: आमंत्रित, नेह पाओल
Original: κλητός / καλέω (ἐκάλεσεν, 2:14)
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. In 2 Thessalonians: God called believers through the gospel to obtain Christ’s glory (2:14).

Calling

Approved rendering: बजाओल जाएब
Transliteration: bajāol jāeb
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Rejected alternatives: आह्वान
Original: κλῆσις
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. In 2 Thessalonians: Paul prays God will count believers worthy of ‘his calling’ (1:11).

Holy

Approved rendering: पवित्र
Transliteration: pavitra
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: शुद्ध, निर्मल
Original: ἅγιος
Category: Sanctification

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Underlies believers’ corporate identity throughout 2 Thessalonians (implied moral set-apartness, esp. 2:13’s sanctification).

Saints

Approved rendering: पवित्र जन
Transliteration: pavitra jan
Doctrine: Sainthood
Rejected alternatives: संत, सती
Original: ἅγιοι
Category: Church

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. In 2 Thessalonians 1:10: Christ will be glorified ‘in his saints’ at his coming.

Sanctification

Approved rendering: पवित्रीकरण
Transliteration: pavitrīkaraṇ
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: शुद्धिकरण, संस्कार
Original: ἁγιασμός
Category: Sanctification

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. In 2 Thessalonians 2:13: ‘sanctification of the Spirit’ named alongside belief of the truth as the twin means by which God’s choice results in salvation.

Power Of God

Approved rendering: परमेश्वरक सामर्थ्य
Transliteration: parameśvarak sāmarthya
Doctrine: Power of God for Salvation
Rejected alternatives: शक्ति, बल
Original: δύναμις (1:11) / cf. ἐνέργεια (2:9, qualified)
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Never शक्ति. In 2 Thessalonians 1:11: God fulfills every resolve for good ‘by his power’. The unqualified सामर्थ्य root is also deliberately reused (qualified by genitive) in the new coined term working_energeia for both God’s and Satan’s respective ‘workings’ (2:7, 2:9, 2:11) — never शक्ति for either.

Glory

Approved rendering: महिमा
Transliteration: mahimā
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: तेज, ज्योति
Original: δόξα
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Avoid light-imagery terms that conflate with Puranic divine-luster descriptions. In 2 Thessalonians: Christ’s glory displayed ‘in his saints’ (1:10), believers’ obtaining of it (2:14, see new coined term obtaining_of_glory).

Law

Approved rendering: व्यवस्था
Transliteration: byavasthā
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Rejected alternatives: धर्म, नियम

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. NEVER धर्म. In 2 Thessalonians this protected root is the compositional foundation for the new Critical-risk terms man_of_lawlessness (व्यवस्थाहीनताक पुरुष), lawlessness (व्यवस्थाहीनता), and the_lawless_one (व्यवस्थाहीन जन) — all built on व्यवस्था plus negating -हीन(ता) specifically to avoid the region’s dharma-adharma cosmic-order framework.

Sin

Approved rendering: पाप
Transliteration: pāp
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Rejected alternatives: अधर्म, अशुद्धता

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Included here because some manuscript traditions read ‘man of sin’ (ὁ ἄνθρωπος τῆς ἁμαρτίας) as a variant of 2:3’s ‘man of lawlessness’; if this variant is followed in a given source text, पाप must still never be replaced by अधर्म-based vocabulary, consistent with this entry’s own ruling.

Election

Approved rendering: परमेश्वरक चुनाव
Transliteration: parameśvarak cunāv
Doctrine: Effectual Calling
Rejected alternatives: भाग्य, किस्मत, प्रारब्ध

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Never प्रारब्ध. In 2 Thessalonians 2:13-14: God’s sovereign choice of the Thessalonians as firstfruits to salvation must read consistently with this entry — sovereign, personal choice, not karma-determined fate.

Epiphaneia Manifestation

Approved rendering: प्रकटन
Transliteration: prakaṭan
Doctrine: Christ’s Coming (Parousia)
Rejected alternatives: एपिफेनिया (bare transliteration), ज्योति-प्रकाश
Original: ἐπιφάνεια
Category: Eschatology

New term for this curriculum. The visible, glorious, undeniable manifestation of Christ’s parousia, paired with it for emphasis (2:8). Rejected light-imagery (ज्योति-प्रकाश) per baseline glory ruling (conflates with Puranic divine-luster descriptions). Built on the same प्रकट- root as apokalyphthe_revealed to keep a visible lexical family across 1:7, 2:3, 2:8.

Enesteken Has Come

Approved rendering: आबि गेल अछि
Transliteration: ābi gel achi
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Rejected alternatives: लगे अछि
Original: ἐνέστηκεν (perfect of ἐνίστημι)
Category: Eschatology

New term for this curriculum. The false claim being corrected in 2:2: that the Day of the Lord had already, presently arrived (perfect tense ἐνέστηκεν), not merely that it was near. लगे अछि (‘is near’) flattens this crucial tense distinction and would make Paul’s entire correction in the rest of the chapter unmotivated; never substitute.

Apokalyphthe Revealed

Approved rendering: प्रकट कएल जाएब / प्रकट होयब
Transliteration: prakaṭ kael jāeb / prakaṭ hoyab
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Original: ἀποκαλύπτω / ἀποκάλυψις
Category: Eschatology

New term for this curriculum. Public unveiling of a previously hidden reality, used of both Christ’s own glorious revealing (1:7) and the lawless one’s revealing (2:3, 2:8) — a deliberate literary parallel. Must render identically across all three occurrences; inconsistent rendering obscures the intended contrast between the true and counterfeit revealing.

Restrainer Impersonal

Approved rendering: रोकनहार तत्व
Transliteration: rokanhār tattva
Doctrine: The Restrainer of Lawlessness
Original: τὸ κατέχον
Category: Eschatology

New term for this curriculum. The presently unnamed, neuter-form (τὸ κατέχον) restraining factor delaying the lawless one’s revelation (2:6). Must not be resolved to a single named identity (e.g. definitively ‘the Holy Spirit’) — this ambiguity is original to the text and the church has never fully settled it; over-specifying would go beyond Scripture.

Restrainer Personal

Approved rendering: रोकनहार
Transliteration: rokanhār
Doctrine: The Restrainer of Lawlessness
Original: ὁ κατέχων
Category: Eschatology

New term for this curriculum. The same restraining reality referred to as a personal, masculine-form agent (ὁ κατέχων, 2:7), shifting from the neuter form of 2:6. Maithili grammar does not mark this Greek neuter-to-masculine shift as sharply; a mandatory translator note preserving the exegetically significant shift is required.

Satan

Approved rendering: शैतान
Transliteration: śaitān
Doctrine: Satan’s Counterfeit Power
Rejected alternatives: रावण (as substitute identity), भूत-प्रेत, दैत्य
Original: Σατανᾶς
Category: Eschatology

New term for this curriculum. The singular, personal, God-opposing adversary empowering the lawless one’s counterfeit coming (2:9). Standard transliteration across North Indian Christian/Muslim usage. Must not be conflated with a mischievous trickster-spirit or a defeated demon-king/asura figure (e.g. Ravana) subordinate within regional Puranic cosmic order — Scripture presents a singular, personal adversary directly opposing God himself.

Signs And Wonders False

Approved rendering: चिन्ह आ अद्भुत काज
Transliteration: cinha ā adbhut kāj
Doctrine: Satan’s Counterfeit Power
Original: σημεῖα καὶ τέρατα ψεύδους
Category: Eschatology

New term for this curriculum. Satan-empowered false displays of power accompanying the lawless one’s counterfeit coming (2:9). Mandatory translator note required stating these are false, deceptive, Satan-empowered — categorically different from any genuine miracle, given the region’s rich devotional literature of avatar/sage wonder-working (avatars’ feats, sages’ siddhis).

The Lie

Approved rendering: झूठ
Transliteration: jhūṭh
Doctrine: Love of the Truth versus the Lie
Original: τὸ ψεῦδος
Category: Eschatology

New term for this curriculum. The singular ultimate deception — the lawless one’s self-deification claim — functioning as a counter-reality to ‘the Truth’ (सत्यता), 2:9 and 2:11. The definite, singular sense must be preserved rather than rendered as a generic ‘a lie’ among many.

Love Of The Truth

Approved rendering: सत्यताक प्रेम
Transliteration: satyatāk prem
Doctrine: Love of the Truth versus the Lie
Original: ἡ ἀγάπη τῆς ἀληθείας
Category: Faith

New term for this curriculum. Willed, self-giving love directed toward God’s truth, whose absence is why the deceived perish (2:10). प्रेम in Mithila’s devotional literary tradition (Vidyapati’s Radha-Krishna poetry) is heavily associated with passionate, romantic-devotional love (madhurya-bhava); a translator note distinguishing this willed, self-giving love of truth from शृंगारिक प्रेम is required at first occurrence.

Perseverance Endurance

Approved rendering: धीरज
Transliteration: dhīraj
Doctrine: Perseverance under Persecution
Rejected alternatives: सहनशीलता (in resigned/fatalistic sense), तितिक्षा
Original: ὑπομονή
Category: Perseverance

New term for this curriculum. Active, hope-fueled steadfastness under pressure, grounded in God’s promised future justice (1:4), modeled on Christ’s own endurance (3:5). Must not collapse into a resigned, fatalistic patience read as passive karmic acceptance of deserved suffering. तितिक्षा rejected for its ascetic self-discipline register, which would frame perseverance as self-generated virtue rather than hope-fueled confidence.

Lord Is Faithful

Approved rendering: विश्वासयोग्य
Transliteration: biswasyogya
Doctrine: God’s Faithfulness and Protection
Original: πιστός ὁ κύριος
Category: God

New term for this curriculum. God’s own trustworthy, unshakeable character, grounding believers’ confidence that he will establish and guard them (3:3). Must be visibly built on the same विश्वास root as human faith while remaining clearly distinguished as describing God’s own character, not human trust exercised toward him.

Guard From Evil One

Approved rendering: दुष्टसँ (शैतानसँ) रक्षा
Transliteration: duṣṭasã̃ (śaitānsã̃) rakṣā
Doctrine: God’s Faithfulness and Protection
Original: φυλάξει ἀπὸ τοῦ πονηροῦ
Category: Perseverance

New term for this curriculum. God’s protective guarding of believers, ambiguously either ‘from the evil one’ (Satan) or ‘from evil’ generally (3:3), echoing the Lord’s Prayer. The Greek construction is genuinely ambiguous; retain this ambiguity in a translator note rather than forcing a single resolved reading.

Vengeance Retribution

Approved rendering: दण्ड
Transliteration: daṇḍa
Doctrine: God’s Righteous Judgment
Rejected alternatives: बदला
Original: ἐκδίκησις
Category: Judgment

New term for this curriculum. God’s own righteous punishment on those who reject the gospel, executed at Christ’s revelation (1:8). दण्ड (punishment personally administered by a rightful authority, an established Indic legal/moral concept) preferred over बदला (‘revenge,’ too personally vindictive-sounding) or any word suggesting impersonal karmic ledger-balancing.

Away From The Lords Presence

Approved rendering: प्रभुक उपस्थितिसँ दूर
Transliteration: prabhuk upasthitisã̃ dūr
Doctrine: Eternal Destruction
Original: ἀπὸ προσώπου τοῦ κυρίου
Category: Judgment

New term for this curriculum. Permanent banishment from God’s presence — the essence of the punishment described in 1:9. Must not be softened toward a hope of eventual reunion or reincarnation-based re-approach to the divine.

Sent By God

Approved rendering: पठबैत छथि
Transliteration: paṭhabait chathi
Doctrine: God’s Judicial Hardening (Working of Delusion)
Original: πέμπει
Category: Judgment

New term for this curriculum. God’s active, judicial, personal sending of the working of delusion upon the willfully deceived (2:11). Honorific verb form required for God as grammatical subject, per baseline’s established grammatical requirement for referring to God’s actions.

Stand Firm

Approved rendering: डटल रहू
Transliteration: ḍaṭal rahū
Doctrine: Standing Firm in the Traditions
Original: στήκετε
Category: Covenant

New term for this curriculum. The command to remain steadfast in the received apostolic teaching (2:15). Anchors the doctrine; must be paired consistently with the established rendering of traditions.

Love

Approved rendering: प्रेम
Transliteration: prem
Doctrine: Faith and Love of the Church
Original: ἀγάπη
Category: Faith

New term for this curriculum (no separate baseline entry in the Romans package). Willed, self-giving love; the Thessalonians’ love for one another is increasing (1:3), and love of the truth is what the deceived refused (2:10). प्रेम in Mithila’s devotional literary tradition (Vidyapati’s Radha-Krishna poetry) is heavily associated with passionate, romantic-devotional love; a distinguishing gloss (this is willed, self-giving अगापे-प्रेम, not शृंगारिक प्रेम) is required at first occurrence.

Working Energeia

Approved rendering: सामर्थ्य
Transliteration: sāmarthya
Doctrine: Satan’s Counterfeit Power
Rejected alternatives: शक्ति
Original: ἐνέργεια
Category: God

New term for this curriculum (new sense-application of baseline’s power_of_god root). Operative working power in action; Paul deliberately uses the same word for both God’s saving/judicial power and Satan’s deceptive working, an intentional ironic parallel (2:7, 2:9, 2:11). Reuses baseline सामर्थ्य deliberately for both parties (qualified by genitive: शैतानक सामर्थ्य / परमेश्वरक सामर्थ्य) to preserve this literary link; must never shift to शक्ति for either, per the baseline’s Shakta-goddess collision warning.

Medium Risk Terms

Peace

Approved rendering: शान्ति
Transliteration: śānti
Doctrine: Peace with God
Rejected alternatives: चैन, सुख
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. In 2 Thessalonians: epistolary greeting (1:2) and the closing benediction from ‘the Lord of peace’ (3:16). Root also reused in the new coined term quietness (शान्तिपूर्वक, 3:12).

Church

Approved rendering: मण्डली
Transliteration: maṇḍalī
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Rejected alternatives: मन्दिर, मठ
Original: ἐκκλησία
Category: Church

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Never मन्दिर or मठ for the congregation. In 2 Thessalonians 1:1, 1:4 (the Thessalonian congregation). IMPORTANT CROSS-REFERENCE: the new coined term temple_of_god (परमेश्वरक मन्दिर, 2:4) uses मन्दिर for a DIFFERENT referent (God’s own end-times sanctuary, not the church) — this is the one context in the whole corpus where मन्दिर is contextually correct; reviewers must not ‘correct’ 2:4 to remove मन्दिर.

Kingdom Of God

Approved rendering: परमेश्वरक राज्य
Transliteration: parameśvarak rājya
Doctrine: Kingdom Mission
Rejected alternatives: ईश्वरक राष्ट्र
Original: βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Kingdom

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. In 2 Thessalonians 1:5: believers are counted worthy of it and presently suffer for it — sensitive given Mithila’s own historic Janak-kingdom identity.

Episynagoge Gathering

Approved rendering: एकट्ठा होयब
Transliteration: ekaṭṭhā hoyab
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: ἐπισυναγωγή
Category: Eschatology

New term for this curriculum. Believers’ being gathered together to Christ at his coming (2:1). Keep purely descriptive; do not import a specific rapture-sequence timeline not settled by the Greek itself.

Mystery Of Lawlessness

Approved rendering: रहस्य
Transliteration: rahasya
Doctrine: The Mystery of Lawlessness Already at Work
Original: μυστήριον
Category: Eschatology

New term for this curriculum. A previously hidden divine purpose now being disclosed (Pauline technical sense, 2:7), not an occult secret. रहस्य can evoke tantric रहस्य-वाद esoteric-secret-doctrine associations; a brief gloss at first occurrence is required, especially since it modifies ‘lawlessness,’ already Critical-risk in this book.

Object Of Worship

Approved rendering: पूजाक वस्तु
Transliteration: pūjāk vastu
Doctrine: Profanation of God’s Temple
Original: σέβασμα
Category: Eschatology

New term for this curriculum. Any object receiving cultic devotion, referenced critically as what the lawless one usurps by exalting himself above every such object (2:4). Contextually apt here only, as the verse itself critiques illegitimate worship-objects; Christian worship of the true God elsewhere in this curriculum must use आराधना/प्रार्थना, never पूजा — standing style-guide fence required to prevent drift toward normalizing पूजा.

Truth

Approved rendering: सत्यता
Transliteration: satyatā
Doctrine: Love of the Truth versus the Lie
Original: ἀλήθεια
Category: Faith

New term for this curriculum. God’s revealed truth, opposed to ‘the Lie’ (2:10, 2:12) and named alongside sanctification as a means of salvation (2:13). Low collision risk when consistently opposed to झूठ.

Persecution

Approved rendering: उत्पीड़न
Transliteration: utpīḍan
Doctrine: Perseverance under Persecution
Rejected alternatives: सताव
Original: διωγμός
Category: Perseverance

New term for this curriculum. Active hostility endured by believers for their faith (1:4). सताव rejected as too colloquial/weak for the doctrinal weight the term carries.

Affliction Tribulation

Approved rendering: कष्ट
Transliteration: kaṣṭ
Doctrine: Perseverance under Persecution
Rejected alternatives: क्लेश
Original: θλῖψις
Category: Perseverance

New term for this curriculum. Pressure, distress, hardship endured by believers, for which God will grant relief at Christ’s revelation (1:4, 1:6-7). क्लेश rejected because it collides with the Yogic/Samkhya technical category of the five kleshas binding the soul to rebirth.

Do Not Grow Weary

Approved rendering: हिम्मत नहि हारब
Transliteration: himmat nahi hārab
Doctrine: Perseverance under Persecution
Original: μὴ ἐγκακήσητε καλοποιοῦντες
Category: Perseverance

New term for this curriculum. A closing perseverance exhortation extending endurance to ordinary good conduct, not only active persecution (3:13). Links back to धीरज (1:4, 3:5).

Repay Recompense

Approved rendering: बदला देब
Transliteration: badalā deb
Doctrine: God’s Righteous Judgment
Original: ἀνταποδοῦναι
Category: Judgment

New term for this curriculum. God’s just recompense, repaying affliction to those who afflict the church (1:6). Must read as a personal God’s just recompense, not automatic karmic ledger-balancing.

Hold Fast

Approved rendering: थामल राखू
Transliteration: thāmal rākhū
Doctrine: Standing Firm in the Traditions
Original: κρατεῖτε
Category: Covenant

New term for this curriculum. Firmly retaining the traditions/teaching delivered by Paul (2:15). Low collision risk when paired with the established traditions rendering.

Disorderly Idle

Approved rendering: अनुशासनहीन ढंगसँ
Transliteration: anuśāsanhīn ḍhaṅgasã̃
Doctrine: Standing Firm in the Traditions
Original: ἀτάκτως / ἀτακτέω
Category: Covenant

New term for this curriculum. Living in a manner contrary to received apostolic instruction, specifically refusing to work while awaiting the Lord’s return (3:6-11). Connects the letter’s eschatological correction (chapter 2) to its ethical correction (chapter 3): wrong belief about the Day of the Lord produced wrong, idle living.

Example Pattern

Approved rendering: उदाहरण
Transliteration: udāharaṇ
Doctrine: Apostolic Example and Work Ethic
Rejected alternatives: आदर्श
Original: τύπος
Category: Covenant

New term for this curriculum. A model of conduct Paul deliberately gave in his own diligent labor, for the church to imitate (3:9). आदर्श rejected because it is closely tied in regional devotional culture to Sita as the ādarś nārī (ideal wife), an achieved-virtue moral exemplar already flagged as a grace-collision risk in the Romans baseline’s imputed_righteousness entry; उदाहरण avoids reactivating that exemplar-virtue framing.

Authority Right

Approved rendering: अधिकार
Transliteration: adhikār
Doctrine: Apostolic Example and Work Ethic
Original: ἐξουσία
Category: Church

New term for this curriculum. Paul’s legitimate right, as an apostle/minister of the gospel, to receive material support, voluntarily foregone as a model (3:9). Paul’s voluntary non-use of a legitimate right models sacrificial ministry rather than entitlement.

Ashamed

Approved rendering: लज्जित होयब
Transliteration: lajjit hoyab
Doctrine: Church Discipline and Restoration
Original: ἐντρέπω
Category: Church

New term for this curriculum. The intended restorative effect of church discipline toward one who refuses apostolic instruction (3:14). Flagged under honor/shame cultural-dynamics review given Mithila’s strong honor/shame social framework; must read as restorative discipline, not permanent social ostracism.

Firstfruits

Approved rendering: पहिल फल
Transliteration: pahil phal
Doctrine: Firstfruits and Election to Salvation
Original: ἀπαρχή
Category: Salvation

New term for this curriculum. An early, representative installment of a larger harvest; God chose the Thessalonians ‘as firstfruits to salvation’ (2:13). Descriptive agricultural metaphor; low collision risk if kept plainly descriptive.

Obtaining Of Glory

Approved rendering: महिमाक प्राप्ति
Transliteration: mahimāk prāpti
Doctrine: Firstfruits and Election to Salvation
Original: περιποίησις δόξης
Category: God

New term for this curriculum. The believer’s promised inheritance of Christ’s own glory, obtained through the gospel call (2:14). Reuses baseline’s established महिमा term; qualify consistently as an obtaining/inheritance, not an achievement.

Establish Strengthen

Approved rendering: स्थिर करब
Transliteration: sthir karab
Doctrine: God’s Faithfulness and Protection
Original: στηρίζω
Category: Faith

New term for this curriculum. To make firm, confirm believers in every good work and word (2:17) and guard them from the evil one (3:3). Straightforward strengthening sense, low collision risk.

Delivered Rescued

Approved rendering: बचाओल जाएब
Transliteration: bacāol jāeb
Doctrine: Gospel
Original: ῥύομαι
Category: Salvation

New term for this curriculum. This-worldly rescue from wicked and evil people opposing the gospel’s advance (3:2), distinct from उद्धार’s full soteriological finality. Must be kept distinct from उद्धार (salvation).

Work Of Faith

Approved rendering: विश्वासक काज
Transliteration: biswasak kāj
Doctrine: Faith and Love of the Church
Original: ἔργον πίστεως
Category: Faith

New term for this curriculum. Believers’ faith expressing itself in action, empowered by God (1:11). Reuses established विश्वास; must not be read as merit-earning works but as faith’s natural fruit.

Low Risk Terms

Thanksgiving

Approved rendering: धन्यवाद
Transliteration: dhanyavād
Doctrine: Thanksgiving
Original: εὐχαριστία / εὐχαριστεῖν
Category: Faith

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. In 2 Thessalonians: 1:3 (thanksgiving for growing faith/love), 2:13 (thanksgiving for election to salvation).

Exhort

Approved rendering: उत्साहित करब
Transliteration: utsāhit karab
Doctrine: Mutual Edification
Original: παρακαλέω
Category: Faith

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. In 2 Thessalonians 2:17: prayer-wish that God would comfort/encourage believers’ hearts.

Fellowship

Approved rendering: सङ्गति
Transliteration: saṅgati
Doctrine: Christian Fellowship
Rejected alternatives: मित्रता, समाज
Original: κοινωνία (root; negated in 3:14’s συναναμίγνυμι)
Category: Church

Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. In 2 Thessalonians 3:14 invoked negatively: believers are instructed not to closely associate with the disorderly.

Admonish

Approved rendering: चेताएब
Transliteration: cetāeb
Doctrine: Church Discipline and Restoration
Original: νουθετέω
Category: Church

New term for this curriculum. Corrective warning offered out of care, aimed at restoration rather than hostility (3:15). Standard corrective-instruction vocabulary; low collision risk.

Sign Authentication Mark

Approved rendering: चिन्ह
Transliteration: cinha
Doctrine: Authentication of Apostolic Letters against False Teaching
Original: σημεῖον
Category: Covenant

New term for this curriculum. Paul’s handwritten greeting, authenticating the letter against forged letters claiming his authority (3:17), closing the loop opened at 2:2’s concern over a spurious letter. Distinct sense from 2:9’s ‘signs and wonders’ (चिन्ह आ अद्भुत काज); do not conflate renderings.

Quietness

Approved rendering: शान्तिपूर्वक
Transliteration: śāntipūrvak
Doctrine: Apostolic Example and Work Ethic
Original: ἡσυχία
Category: Perseverance

New term for this curriculum. Settled, quiet manner of working, the corrective posture commanded for the idle (3:12). Reuses established शान्ति root; low collision risk.

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