Passage

Romans 11

• Glossary Term

  Apostle

  Conveys an authorized, sent-out messenger with delegated authority.

  ROM.11.13

• Doctrine

  Apostleship

  Risk: reducing apostleship to a generic pandit or genealogist-scholar role, given the outsized cultural authority of the Maithil Brahmin pandit as custodian of the region's Panjikaran lineage registry.

  ROM.11.13

• Doctrine

  Effectual Calling

  God's sovereign call that ensures the salvation of the called, not karma-determined destiny (प्रारब्ध) or impersonal fate.

  ROM.11.29

• Glossary Term

  Election

  God's sovereign personal choice, not karma-determined fate (प्रारब्ध) or impersonal destiny.

  ROM.11.29

• Glossary Term

  Gentiles

  Non-Jews.

  ROM.11.17-24

• Doctrine

  Grace

  Unmerited favor directly contradicts a karma-merit worldview and must also resist being explained through Sita's self-sacrificial virtue, which is an achieved-merit exemplar rather than a picture of unearned favor.

  ROM.11.5-6

• Glossary Term

  Grace

  Must convey unmerited favor apart from human merit, directly countering the karma-merit worldview common to Maithil Vaishnava and Shaiva devotional practice alike.

  ROM.11.5-6

• Glossary Term

  Israel

  Proper name; follows established Bible-translation form.

  ROM.11.17-24

• Glossary Term

  Justification

  Compound phrase required, built on the native Maithili passive construction (कएल जाएब) rather than a borrowed Hindi passive, so the phrase reads as Maithili rather than transplanted Hindi.

  ROM.11.11

• Doctrine

  Providence

  God's personal, purposive care, not impersonal fate or destiny (प्रारब्ध).

  ROM.11.33-36

• Glossary Term

  Providence

  God's personal, purposive governance.

  ROM.11.33-36

• Glossary Term

  Righteousness

  CRITICAL: Never धर्म (cosmic/social duty) and never सतीत्व (the chastity/wifely-virtue ideal embodied by Sita, Mithila's most culturally cherished moral exemplar).

  ROM.11.11

• Doctrine

  Salvation

  CRITICAL: Never मुक्ति or मोक्ष.

  ROM.11.11

• Glossary Term

  Salvation

  CRITICAL: NEVER मुक्ति or मोक्ष -- these carry the standard North Indian Hindu liberation-from-rebirth meaning shared across Maithil Vaishnava and Shaiva practice.

  ROM.11.11

• Doctrine

  Unity of Jews and Gentiles

  Directly challenges caste and lineage-based spiritual hierarchy embedded in Maithil Brahmin social structure.

  ROM.11.17-24