Passage

Romans 13

• Glossary Term

  Justification

  Established Malayalam theological compound for the forensic, declared-righteous sense.

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• Glossary Term

  Righteousness

  NEVER ധര്‍മ്മം, the Malayalam cognate of Sanskrit dharma, carrying the same cosmic-duty connotation found elsewhere in South Asia.

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• Doctrine

  Salvation

  DISTINCT FROM OTHER LANGUAGES: this is the only language in this batch where salvation is not Critical risk.

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• Glossary Term

  Salvation

  രക്ഷ (protection/rescue/deliverance) has been the settled Malayalam Christian term for close to two millennia, since the Saint Thomas Christian tradition predates most later Sanskrit-influenced Hindu vocabulary layers now common elsewhere.

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