Glossary Term
Risk: Medium- Approved rendering
- 外邦人
- Transliteration
- wàibāngrén
- Rejected alternatives
- 夷人, 外国人
Gentiles
NEVER use 夷人 (yírén, historically ‘barbarian’ in the classical Hua-Yi [华夷] distinction between civilized Chinese and outside peoples) — using it would ironically import the very insider/outsider hierarchy Romans ‘no distinction’ language dismantles. 外邦人 = non-Jewish nations generically.
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