Passage
Romans 9
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Glossary Term
Abba
Aramaic term of intimacy preserved as a transliteration alongside ইপা (Romans 8:15), following the pattern used by related regional Bible translations.
ROM.9.4
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Glossary Term
Adoption
A descriptive compound ('taking as a child') stands in for formal legal adoption; traditional Meitei kinship and clan (yumnak) identity runs primarily through birth lineage, so this curriculum should stress the full inheritance-rights sense of Romans 8:15-17 explicitly rather than assume a ready cultural equivalent.
ROM.9.4
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Doctrine
Adoption into God's Family
Full son-status with complete inheritance rights, which must be explicitly taught since formal legal adoption is not a settled category in traditional Meitei clan (yumnak) kinship structure, where inheritance runs through birth lineage.
ROM.9.4
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Glossary Term
Called
Context-sensitive: in 1:1 = called to apostleship; in 1:7 = called to be saints; in 8:28-30 = effectual calling to salvation.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Calling
Noun form for the act/state of being called, kept structurally parallel to কৌখিবা (called).
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Covenant
A relational covenant/promise bond; confirm this rendering's exact naturalness with a Manipuri-speaking theologian, as no crystallized single covenant-theology term is attested in currently available Manipuri Christian literature.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
David
Standard proper-name transliteration, following existing Manipuri Bible-translation convention.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Davidic Covenant
Requires explicit Old Testament background teaching; there is no analogous royal-covenant concept in Sanamahi tradition, though the Meitei cultural emphasis on royal lineage (the Pakhangba descent claim of historic Meitei kingship) gives 'seed of David' language a point of natural, if distinct, resonance.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Deity of Christ
CRITICAL: full, co-equal divine nature; must not be softened into 'a great avatar' or 'a specially favored spirit within the Umang Lai pantheon.'
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Divine Calling
God's sovereign call must be distinguished from a maibi being ritually seized/called by an Umang Lai deity during Lai Haraoba trance, and from ৱাইফম-style impersonal fate.
ROM.9.11-12
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Doctrine
Effectual Calling
God's sovereign call that ensures the salvation of the called; not ৱাইফম (impersonal fate) and not a royal-divine-lineage selection of the Pakhangba-descent type.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Election
God's sovereign, personal choice; must be distinguished from ৱাইফম (impersonal fate) and from the sense of royal-divine selection historically claimed by the Meitei kingship tradition (descent from Pakhangba).
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Father
God as personal Father; ইপা is the ordinary Meitei word for father, chosen for its warmth and intimacy rather than a royal-divine title tied to the Pakhangba lineage tradition or a Vaishnava devotional title.
ROM.9.4
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Glossary Term
Glory
God's radiant honor and presence.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
God
CRITICAL: তেংবাং মপু, the established Manipuri Christian term for God, is deliberately preferred over both ঠাকুর (which would place God inside the existing Krishna-devotional framework) and সানামাহি (the household/ancestral deity of indigenous Sanamahi religion, currently undergoing active revival).
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
Messiah
Transliterated term, following existing Manipuri Bible-translation convention.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Messianic Promise
CRITICAL: Messiah is a specific Jewish Old Testament category fulfilled exclusively in Jesus; it must not be presented as one figure among Vishnu's recognized avatar sequence, culminating in some Vaishnava schemes with Krishna.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
Seed Of David
Romans 1:3; a descriptive phrase conveying physical lineage, which can resonate with the Meitei cultural emphasis on royal and clan (yumnak) descent lines, but requires explicit Old Testament covenant background to avoid being read as merely a genealogical claim of the Pakhangba-lineage type.
ROM.9.5