Doctrine Analysis
Doctrine Analysis — Matthew 1–28 (English → Marathi)
This document is the full doctrine matrix for the Matthew curriculum, produced under PRD Phase 1 Step 4. It is fully consistent with assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json: the same 32 doctrines, the same risk tiers, and the same review routing. It extends that registry with (a) a consolidated matrix view for quick reference and (b) an explicit chapter-by-chapter coverage map demonstrating that every chapter of Matthew 1–28 has been reviewed, per the PRD full-book-coverage mandate. The core passage, Matthew 5:1-12 (the Beatitudes), is the theological anchor of the curriculum and receives the fullest scaffolding of any doctrine below, but coverage is not limited to it.
Risk tier definitions (unchanged from baseline and from the Matthew doctrine risk registry):
- Critical — Mistranslation alters or destroys essential doctrine. Human theologian review required for every occurrence.
- High — Mistranslation creates significant theological confusion or syncretism risk. Human theologian review required.
- Medium — Mistranslation reduces clarity but preserves essential meaning. Native speaker review recommended.
- Low — Mistranslation causes minor misunderstanding or imprecision. Automated review sufficient.
Part A — Full Doctrine Matrix
| # | Doctrine | Supporting Passages (Matthew) | Risk | Translation Risk / Marathi Notes | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Kingdom of Heaven | 3:2; 4:17; 5:3; 5:10; 5:19-20; 13:11-52; 18:1-4; 19:14-24; 22:2; 25:1 | Critical | स्वर्गाचे राज्य (स्वर्ग) risks collapse into popular Hindu cosmology’s temporary, karma-earned celestial way-station en route to मोक्ष. Matthew’s single most frequent theological phrase (~32 occurrences) must be taught, every time, as synonymous with baseline देवाचे राज्य — the eternal, personal reign of God — requiring sustained catechetical reinforcement, not a one-time footnote. | Human theologian |
| 2 | Jesus as the Promised Messiah and Son of David | 1:1-17; 1:23; 2:1-6; 9:27; 11:2-6; 12:23; 15:22; 20:30-31; 21:9; 22:41-45 | Critical | The Messiah is the unique OT-promised deliverer, never one of Vitthal’s Vaishnav avatar-associations and never a Buddha-like teacher who attained realization by self-effort. “Son of David” requires explicit OT covenant-background teaching; no structural equivalent exists in Warkari or Navayana Buddhist frameworks. | Human theologian |
| 3 | Fulfillment of Old Testament Prophecy | 1:22-23; 2:15; 2:17-18; 2:23; 4:14-16; 5:17; 8:17; 12:17-21; 12:39-41; 13:14-15; 13:35; 21:4-5; 21:42; 23:29-37; 26:54-56; 27:9-10 | High | Matthew’s ~12 fulfillment-formula quotations assert linear, one-time historical fulfillment. Must never echo the cyclical cosmic time of Hindu yuga cycles nor the Buddhist wheel of dependent-origination (pratītyasamutpāda), where no single historical moment carries unrepeatable, final significance. | Human theologian |
| 4 | The Authority of Jesus’ Teaching | 5:17-48; 7:28-29; 8:9; 9:6-8; 10:1; 15:1-9; 21:23-27; 22:29; 22:34-40; 28:18 | High | अधिकार must convey Jesus’ own, underived, divine authority — not the delegated authority of a scribe citing prior teachers, nor a guru’s attained authority recognized by disciples. Render identically at every recurrence to preserve the doctrine’s cumulative force across the Gospel. | Human theologian |
| 5 | Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees | 5:20; 5:21-48; 6:1-18; 15:1-20; 23:1-36 | Critical | The single greatest translation danger in Matthew: “exceeding” (अधिक) righteousness must never read as accumulating more religious merit, which would collapse the teaching into the very karma-merit/rule-multiplication framework Jesus rejects. Reuse baseline नीतिमत्त्व exactly; exceeding is a difference of kind (a transformed heart), not quantity of deeds. | Human theologian |
| 6 | The Church and Church Discipline | 16:18-19; 18:1-20 | High | Delegated authority for church governance (keys, bind/loose) must be framed as exercised strictly under Christ’s supreme authority, never an independent priestly power. The graduated discipline procedure (18:15-17) must reuse मंडळी and पाप exactly, with each procedural step rendered distinctly and in sequence. | Human theologian |
| 7 | The Great Commission | 28:16-20 | Critical | πάντα τὰ ἔθνη here means all peoples/nations without exception, including Israel — broader than baseline’s अन्यजातीय (Gentile-vs-Jew contrast in Romans); narrowing it would wrongly restrict the Commission’s universal scope. The Trinitarian baptismal formula must render “name” (नावाने) singular and undivided across all three Persons. | Human theologian |
| 8 | Judgment and the End of the Age | 13:39-49; 24:1-51; 25:1-46 | Critical | युग (age) risks evoking Hindu cyclical yuga-cosmology, an endlessly recurring sequence of cosmic ages with no final terminus. This doctrine requires a single, final, linear end of history and one decisive judgment. Eternal punishment/life (25:46) must be conveyed as final, unending, personal destinies — never a temporary karmic consequence subject to eventual exhaustion or rebirth. | Human theologian |
| 9 | Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus | 4:18-22; 8:18-22; 9:9; 10:37-39; 16:24-26; 19:16-30 | High | शिष्य is the ordinary Marathi word for a guru’s student, gained through the student’s own initiative toward self-attained wisdom; every occurrence must be anchored exclusively to Jesus as the object of following. वधस्तंभ (cross-as-metaphor) must retain its weight as costly, potentially fatal self-denial, never softened to general hardship. | Human theologian |
| 10 | Incarnation | 1:18-25 | Critical | NEVER अवतार, especially salient given Vitthal’s Vaishnav associations at the heart of Warkari devotion. The virgin conception (कुमारी) must never be softened to a generic “young woman”; Emmanuel (“God with us”) must be explained as परमेश्वर आपल्याबरोबर — a one-time, unique divine presence, never one more avatar-descent. | Human theologian |
| 11 | Deity of Christ | 1:23; 3:17; 9:2-8; 14:33; 16:16; 17:1-8; 27:54 | Critical | Co-equal, undiminished divine nature — not a beloved, humbly-postured personal deity like Vitthal within a devotee’s chosen pantheon, and not an enlightened human teacher elevated in memory. Jesus’ authority to forgive sins (9:2-8) is a direct claim to a divine prerogative and must not be softened into general pastoral reassurance. | Human theologian |
| 12 | Sonship of Christ | 3:17; 16:16; 17:5; 26:63-64; 27:54 | Critical | Eternal, unique Sonship must be kept sharply distinct from the plural, corporate “sons of God” granted to peacemaking believers (5:9) — use देवाची लेकरे for that plural sense so no reader infers shared divine Sonship with Christ himself. | Human theologian |
| 13 | Son of Man / Messianic Self-Designation | 8:20; 9:6; 12:8; 12:40; 16:13; 16:27-28; 20:28; 24:27-44; 25:31; 26:64 | Critical | मनुष्याचा पुत्र must never be flattened to मानव (a generic “human being”), the natural false-friend reading of the Semitic idiom. In Jesus’ own usage it carries Daniel-7-rooted messianic-judicial authority combining humility with supreme divine authority to judge; requires OT background teaching. | Human theologian |
| 14 | Resurrection of Christ | 12:39-41; 16:21; 17:9; 17:23; 20:19; 22:23-33; 27:63-64; 28:1-10 | Critical | Baseline पुनरुत्थान reused exactly; NEVER पुनर्जन्म or पुनर्भव. Matthew’s sign-of-Jonah typology anchors this as a bodily, historical, once-for-all event, requiring positive explanation for readers formed by Buddhist anatta teaching, not just a corrected word. | Human theologian |
| 15 | Repentance and the Kingdom | 3:1-12; 4:17; 11:20-21; 12:41 | High | Must convey genuine inward turning to God in response to a specific divine summons — not a ritual purification rite (snāna/tīrtha-yātrā) nor a self-driven ethical-improvement project resembling Buddhist self-cultivation along the Eightfold Path. | Human theologian |
| 16 | Worship of Christ | 2:2; 2:11; 14:33; 28:9; 28:17 | High | Worship directed at Jesus recognizes his deity and must not be rendered with vocabulary indistinguishable from Warkari bhakti darshan/pūjā gestures toward Vitthal or any other devotional figure; the object here is uniquely, exclusively divine. | Human theologian |
| 17 | The Unforgivable Sin (Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit) | 12:22-32 | Critical | Reuse baseline पवित्र आत्मा exactly. Requires precise, careful pastoral framing to avoid trivializing it as ordinary blasphemy or inducing unwarranted pastoral fear in believers not in fact guilty of it. Flag every occurrence for theologian review. | Human theologian |
| 18 | Universal Scope of the Gospel | 8:5-13; 9:10-13; 11:19; 15:21-28; 28:19 | High | No caste or community barrier to the gospel — a claim with unusually direct resonance in Maharashtra, where mass conversion to escape caste hierarchy (the 1956 Ambedkarite Buddhist conversion) is recent living memory. Jesus’ table-fellowship with tax collectors and sinners is social/religious marginalization, not to be conflated with specific Marathi caste categories, while the universal-scope principle stays unqualified. | Human theologian |
| 19 | Effectual Calling and Election | 4:21; 9:13; 22:1-14; 24:22-31 | High | ”Many called, few chosen” (22:14) must never echo a karma-birth or caste-status framework of who is “chosen” — a doctrine Ambedkarite Buddhist communities specifically and painfully rejected. This is God’s sovereign grace in salvation-history, offered universally, received by the humble who respond. | Human theologian |
| 20 | Providence | 6:25-34; 10:29-31 | High | God’s personal, purposive governance and provision must not be rendered so as to echo the karma-based explanation of misfortune or low social status that Ambedkarite Buddhist communities specifically rejected by converting away from caste Hinduism. | Human theologian |
| 21 | Grace versus Merit | 5:12; 6:1-6; 20:1-16 | Critical | The vineyard-laborers parable (20:1-16) is a prime teaching opportunity for reinforcing कृपा against any merit-proportional (karma-style) reading of divine reward. Reward language (प्रतिफळ) must never suggest merit accumulated in a karma-style ledger (avoid पुण्यफळ); the reward flows from grace already given, not earned by suffering or labor itself. | Human theologian |
| 22 | Atonement, Ransom, and Sacrificial Death | 20:28; 26:26-28; 26:36-46; 27:32-50 | Critical | λύτρον (ransom, 20:28) must be rendered खंडणी and never मुक्ती, the baseline-forbidden Warkari-Hindu liberation term, to avoid Christ being misread as a guru/avatar-liberator rather than one paying a price on others’ behalf. Last Supper covenant/forgiveness language must reuse baseline करार and पाप exactly; among the highest-stakes passages in the Gospel. | Human theologian |
| 23 | The Lord’s Prayer and Prayer Life | 6:5-15 | Medium | Petitionary prayer to a personal, listening Father; “daily bread” and “forgive us our debts” must retain ongoing relational dependence, not a one-time ritual request or an automatically-balanced karmic debt-ledger. | Native speaker review |
| 24 | Faith and Little Faith | 8:5-13; 9:2-29; 14:22-33; 15:21-28; 17:14-20; 21:18-22 | High | Personal trust in Christ specifically, not the devotional reverence (bhakti/śraddhā) a Warkari devotee directs toward Vitthal. अल्पविश्वासी (“little faith”) is wavering trust gently corrected, not condemned as an absence of faith. | Human theologian |
| 25 | The Beatitudes and Blessedness of the Kingdom (CORE PASSAGE) | 5:1-12 | High | धन्य is a present declaration of the kingdom-belonging state, distinct from आशीर्वादित/धन्यवादित (reserved for εὐλογέω, ch. 21, 23). “Poor in spirit” and “persecuted for righteousness” must never be read through the lens of caste-linked ritual poverty or karma-birth suffering, which Ambedkarite Buddhist communities explicitly reject. This is the theological anchor passage for the whole curriculum and requires the fullest scaffolding of any doctrine in this registry. | Human theologian |
| 26 | Kingdom Ethics: Love of Enemies and the Greatest Commandment | 5:43-48; 22:34-40 | High | प्रीती/प्रेम must convey willed, self-giving covenantal love, not kama-rasa romantic-devotional love nor mere emotional affection. Loving one’s enemy has no ready parallel in bhakti devotion (directed at a beloved deity) and needs positive explanation, not just lexical substitution. | Human theologian |
| 27 | Eternal Life versus Eternal Punishment | 19:16-29; 25:31-46 | Critical | Both destinies must be conveyed as final, unending, and personal — never a temporary karmic consequence subject to eventual exhaustion or rebirth, nor an impersonal cessation resembling निर्वाण. Regeneration/“new world” (19:28, παλιγγενεσία) must never be rendered as पुनर्जन्म, an especially acute false-friend given the Greek root’s literal “again-birth” sense. | Human theologian |
| 28 | The Temple and New Covenant Access to God | 21:12-13; 21:42; 24:1-2; 26:61; 27:40; 27:51 | High | मंदिर refers strictly to the literal historical Jerusalem building and must never be confused with मंडळी (church). The torn veil (27:51) signifies direct, unmediated access to God opened through Christ’s death, a theological climax connecting to the baseline peace-with-God doctrine. | Human theologian |
| 29 | Authority to Forgive Sins | 9:1-8 | Critical | Jesus claims and demonstrates a divine prerogative (only God forgives sins) — must be rendered so the astonishment this provoked is preserved, not softened into general pastoral reassurance; directly supports the deity-of-Christ doctrine. | Human theologian |
| 30 | Baptism as Covenant Sign | 3:1-17; 28:19 | Medium | बाप्तिस्मा is the established transliterated Marathi Christian term; keep distinct from ritual bathing (स्नान) for purification from ritual impurity, a very different conceptual category rooted in Hindu purity-pollution practice. | Native speaker review |
| 31 | The Parable as Kingdom Teaching Method | 13:1-52; 18:23-35; 20:1-16; 21:28-46; 22:1-14; 25:1-46 | Low | दाखला is a standard, well-established Marathi Bible term for this teaching form; low ambiguity risk beyond ensuring the “mysteries” revealed are graciously given, not esoterically attained. | Automated review |
| 32 | Stewardship and Faithful Service | 9:37-38; 20:1-16; 25:14-30 | Low | Faithful use of entrusted resources and labor in view of the master’s return; standard vocabulary with minor doctrinal risk beyond ensuring reward is not read as karma-merit (see Grace versus Merit, doctrine 21, for the Critical-risk overlap in 20:1-16). | Automated review |
Risk summary (matches doctrine_risk_registry.json exactly): Critical: 15 · High: 13 · Medium: 2 · Low: 2 · Total doctrines: 32 · Requiring human theologian review: 28 · Requiring native speaker review: 2 · Automated review only: 2.
Part B — Chapter-by-Chapter Coverage Map (Matthew 1–28)
Every chapter of Matthew has been reviewed against the doctrine matrix in Part A. Chapters are listed in canonical order; each entry names the doctrines (by number, from Part A) that the chapter carries load-bearing content for. No chapter is silently omitted — chapters whose primary contribution is reinforcement of an already-catalogued doctrine, rather than a new doctrinal category, are marked accordingly.
| Chapter | Doctrines in Play (# from Part A) | Coverage Note |
|---|---|---|
| Matthew 1 | 2 (Messianic Promise/Son of David — genealogy, 1:1-17), 10 (Incarnation, 1:18-25), 11 (Deity of Christ, 1:23), 12 (Sonship of Christ, background) | Genealogy anchors Davidic-messianic and Abrahamic covenant background; virgin conception and Emmanuel are the chapter’s Critical-risk core. Reviewed in full. |
| Matthew 2 | 2 (Messianic Promise — Bethlehem, King of the Jews), 3 (Fulfillment of Prophecy — 2:15, 2:17-18, 2:23), 16 (Worship of Christ — magi, 2:2, 2:11) | Establishes the fulfillment-formula pattern repeated across the Gospel; magi worship anticipates the Gentile-inclusion motif. Reviewed in full. |
| Matthew 3 | 1 (Kingdom of Heaven, 3:2), 15 (Repentance and the Kingdom, 3:1-12), 30 (Baptism as Covenant Sign, 3:1-17), 12 (Sonship of Christ, 3:17), 11 (Deity of Christ, 3:17) | John the Baptist’s ministry and Jesus’ baptism; Trinitarian voice-from-heaven anticipates the Great Commission’s baptismal formula (doctrine 7). Reviewed in full. |
| Matthew 4 | 1 (Kingdom of Heaven, 4:17), 3 (Fulfillment of Prophecy, 4:14-16), 9 (Discipleship, 4:18-22), 19 (Effectual Calling, 4:21) | Temptation narrative and calling of the first disciples; establishes the “follow me” discipleship pattern developed throughout. Reviewed in full. |
| Matthew 5 | 25 (Beatitudes — CORE PASSAGE, 5:1-12), 1 (Kingdom of Heaven, 5:3/5:10/5:19-20), 5 (Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees, 5:20/5:21-48), 3 (Fulfillment of Prophecy, 5:17), 4 (Authority of Jesus’ Teaching, 5:17-48), 26 (Kingdom Ethics: Love of Enemies, 5:43-48) | Theological anchor chapter of the curriculum; the Beatitudes plus the antitheses (“You have heard it said… but I say to you”) together carry the highest doctrinal density in the Gospel. Reviewed in full with maximal scaffolding. |
| Matthew 6 | 23 (Lord’s Prayer and Prayer Life, 6:5-15), 5 (Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees, 6:1-18), 20 (Providence, 6:25-34) | Sermon on the Mount continues: private piety, prayer, and provision. Reviewed in full. |
| Matthew 7 | 4 (Authority of Jesus’ Teaching, 7:28-29), general judgment vocabulary (7:1-2, feeding into doctrine 8’s “judgment” key term at the everyday-interpersonal level, distinct from final judgment in ch. 25) | Sermon on the Mount conclusion; the crowds’ astonishment at Jesus’ authority is the structural hinge into the miracle narratives of chs. 8–9. Reviewed in full. |
| Matthew 8 | 4 (Authority of Jesus’ Teaching, 8:9), 24 (Faith and Little Faith, 8:5-13), 9 (Discipleship, 8:18-22), 18 (Universal Scope of the Gospel, 8:5-13 centurion) | Miracle cycle begins; the centurion’s faith models trust in Jesus’ authority extended to a Gentile. Reviewed in full. |
| Matthew 9 | 29 (Authority to Forgive Sins, 9:1-8), 11 (Deity of Christ, 9:2-8), 9 (Discipleship — call of Matthew, 9:9), 18 (Universal Scope of the Gospel, 9:10-13), 24 (Faith and Little Faith, 9:2-29), 19 (Effectual Calling, 9:13) | Highest doctrinal density outside ch. 5 among the miracle chapters; forgiveness-of-sins pericope is Critical-risk. Reviewed in full. |
| Matthew 10 | 20 (Providence, 10:29-31), 9 (Discipleship and Cost of Following, 10:37-39), mission-sending language feeding doctrines 7/18 (Great Commission/Universal Scope, anticipatory) | Commissioning of the Twelve; establishes sending/mission vocabulary later completed in ch. 28. Reviewed in full. |
| Matthew 11 | 2 (Messianic Promise, 11:2-6), 15 (Repentance and the Kingdom, 11:20-21) | John the Baptist’s question and Jesus’ woes on unrepentant towns. Reviewed in full. |
| Matthew 12 | 13 (Son of Man, 12:8/12:40), 17 (Unforgivable Sin — Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit, 12:22-32), 14 (Resurrection of Christ — sign of Jonah, 12:39-41), 15 (Repentance and the Kingdom, 12:41), 2 (Messianic Promise, 12:23) | Contains two of the Gospel’s most doctrinally sensitive passages (blasphemy against the Spirit; sign of Jonah). Reviewed in full. |
| Matthew 13 | 1 (Kingdom of Heaven parables, 13:11-52), 31 (Parable as Teaching Method, 13:1-52), 8 (Judgment and End of Age, 13:39-49), 3 (Fulfillment of Prophecy, 13:14-15/13:35) | The parables discourse; establishes दाखला as the standard teaching-form term and previews final-judgment imagery (wheat/tares, net). Reviewed in full. |
| Matthew 14 | 16 (Worship of Christ, 14:33), 24 (Faith and Little Faith, 14:22-33) | Feeding of the 5,000 and walking on water; Peter’s little-faith episode. Reviewed in full. |
| Matthew 15 | 5 (Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees — defilement, 15:1-20), 4 (Authority of Jesus’ Teaching — tradition of the elders, 15:1-9), 18 (Universal Scope of the Gospel, 15:21-28), 24 (Faith and Little Faith, 15:21-28), 2 (Messianic Promise — Son of David, 15:22) | Canaanite woman’s faith extends the universal-scope doctrine to a Gentile woman explicitly; defilement teaching reframes purity from ritual to moral. Reviewed in full. |
| Matthew 16 | 12 (Sonship of Christ — Peter’s confession, 16:16), 13 (Son of Man, 16:13/16:27-28), 6 (Church and Church Discipline — keys, 16:18-19), 14 (Resurrection of Christ — first passion prediction, 16:21), 2 (Messianic Promise, 16:16/16:20), 24 (Faith and Little Faith, 16:8) | Caesarea Philippi confession is a doctrinal hinge (Sonship, Messiahship, Church founding all converge). Reviewed in full. |
| Matthew 17 | 14 (Resurrection of Christ, 17:9/17:23), 12 (Sonship of Christ — Transfiguration, 17:1-8), 24 (Faith and Little Faith, 17:14-20) | Transfiguration confirms divine Sonship with the Father’s own voice; second passion prediction. Reviewed in full. |
| Matthew 18 | 6 (Church and Church Discipline, 18:1-20), 1 (Kingdom of Heaven — humility/little ones, 18:1-4) | Full discipline procedure (private → witnesses → church → treat as outsider) requires precise, sequential rendering. Reviewed in full. |
| Matthew 19 | 1 (Kingdom of Heaven, 19:14-24), 27 (Eternal Life versus Eternal Punishment — rich young ruler, regeneration, 19:16-29), 9 (Discipleship and Cost of Following, 19:16-30) | Rich young ruler pericope and Jesus’ teaching on the “new world” (παλιγγενεσία, 19:28) — an especially acute false-friend risk. Reviewed in full. |
| Matthew 20 | 21 (Grace versus Merit — vineyard laborers, 20:1-16), 22 (Atonement/Ransom, 20:28), 2 (Messianic Promise — Son of David, 20:30-31), 32 (Stewardship and Faithful Service, 20:1-16) | Vineyard parable and ransom saying are among the curriculum’s highest-stakes grace-vs-merit teaching moments. Reviewed in full. |
| Matthew 21 | 2 (Messianic Promise — triumphal entry, 21:9/21:15), 3 (Fulfillment of Prophecy — 21:4-5, cornerstone 21:42), 28 (Temple and New Covenant Access — cleansing of the temple, 21:12-13), 1 (Kingdom of Heaven, 21:31/21:43) | Triumphal entry and temple cleansing; cornerstone saying requires Psalm 118 background. Reviewed in full. |
| Matthew 22 | 19 (Effectual Calling and Election — wedding banquet, “many called, few chosen,” 22:1-14), 1 (Kingdom of Heaven, 22:2), 26 (Kingdom Ethics — Greatest Commandment, 22:34-40), 2 (Messianic Promise, 22:41-45), 4 (Authority of Jesus’ Teaching — power of God, 22:29) | “Many called, few chosen” is a politically sensitive passage requiring careful non-karmic framing. Reviewed in full. |
| Matthew 23 | 5 (Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees — woes, 23:1-36), 4 (Authority of Jesus’ Teaching — scribes and Pharisees, 23:2-36), 3 (Fulfillment of Prophecy — prophets, 23:29-37) | The seven woes; sharpest denunciation of externalized religion in the Gospel. Reviewed in full. |
| Matthew 24 | 8 (Judgment and the End of the Age, 24:1-51), 3 (Fulfillment of Prophecy — abomination of desolation, 24:15), 13 (Son of Man — parousia, 24:27-44), 1 (Kingdom of Heaven — mission, 24:14) | Olivet Discourse begins; highest concentration of eschatological vocabulary in the Gospel, requiring careful non-cyclical framing of “age.” Reviewed in full. |
| Matthew 25 | 8 (Judgment and the End of the Age, 25:1-46), 27 (Eternal Life versus Eternal Punishment, 25:46), 32 (Stewardship and Faithful Service — talents, 25:14-30), 1 (Kingdom of Heaven, 25:1) | Olivet Discourse concludes with three judgment parables; 25:46 is the Gospel’s clearest statement of final, personal, unending destinies. Reviewed in full. |
| Matthew 26 | 22 (Atonement, Ransom, and Sacrificial Death — Last Supper and Gethsemane, 26:26-28/26:36-46), 9 (Discipleship — “not my will but yours,” 26:39), 13 (Son of Man, 26:64), 12 (Sonship of Christ, 26:63-64), 14 (Resurrection of Christ — context of passion predictions) | Last Supper institution and Gethsemane; among the highest-stakes passages in the whole Gospel for atonement vocabulary. Reviewed in full. |
| Matthew 27 | 11 (Deity of Christ — centurion’s confession, 27:54), 28 (Temple and New Covenant Access — veil torn, 27:51), 9 (Discipleship — crucifixion as the ultimate cost, 27:22-38), 22 (Atonement — crucifixion, 27:32-50), 12 (Sonship of Christ, 27:54) | Crucifixion narrative; centurion’s Gentile confession anticipates the Great Commission’s universal scope. Reviewed in full. |
| Matthew 28 | 7 (Great Commission — CRITICAL, 28:16-20), 14 (Resurrection of Christ, 28:1-10), 16 (Worship of Christ, 28:9/28:17), 30 (Baptism as Covenant Sign — Trinitarian formula, 28:19), 8 (Judgment and End of Age — “to the end of the age,” 28:20) | Resurrection appearances and the Great Commission; the Gospel’s climactic chapter, requiring the most exacting fixed-wording discipline in the entire curriculum (Trinitarian formula, universal “all nations,” “I am with you always”). Reviewed in full. |
Full-book coverage confirmation: All 28 chapters of Matthew have been reviewed against the 32-doctrine matrix in Part A. No chapter contributes zero load-bearing theological content; every chapter is mapped to at least one doctrine above, consistent with analysis/08_core_glossary.md Section 3, Note 5, and with assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json.
Part C — Consistency Statement
This document introduces no doctrine, risk tier, or review-routing assignment that is not already present in assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json. Doctrine names, Marathi doctrine names, risk levels, and routing in Part A are copied verbatim from that registry. Part B is new analytical content (chapter-by-chapter mapping) required by PRD Phase 1 Step 4’s full-book-coverage mandate and does not alter any risk tier or term rendering established in the baseline Romans package or the Matthew core glossary (analysis/08_core_glossary.md).
Load this document alongside assets/translation_memory.json, analysis/08_core_glossary.md, and assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json before Phase 2 translation planning begins.
Critical Risk Doctrines
The Kingdom of Heaven
Marathi name: स्वर्गाचे राज्य
Key terms: kingdom_of_heaven, kingdom_of_god, mysteries_of_the_kingdom, kingdom_suffers_violence
Review routing: Human theologian
स्वर्ग in popular Hindu cosmology names a temporary, karma-earned celestial abode within the rebirth cycle, a way-station en route to मोक्ष, not the final goal. Matthew’s single most frequent theological phrase (~32 occurrences) must be taught alongside baseline देवाचे राज्य as the same eternal, personal reign of God, requiring sustained catechetical reinforcement across the whole curriculum, not a one-time footnote.
Jesus as the Promised Messiah and Son of David
Marathi name: मसीहाविषयीचे वचन आणि दावीदाचा पुत्र
Key terms: messiah, christ, son_of_david, king_of_the_jews, the_one_who_is_to_come, seed_of_david
Review routing: Human theologian
The Messiah is the unique OT-promised deliverer, not one of Vitthal’s Vaishnav avatar-associations, and not a Buddha-like enlightened teacher who attained realization through his own effort. Son of David requires OT covenant background explanation with no structural equivalent in Warkari or Buddhist frameworks.
Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees
Marathi name: परूश्यांपेक्षा अधिक नीतिमत्त्व
Key terms: righteousness_exceeding_pharisees, righteousness, hypocrite, defile, love_agape, perfect
Review routing: Human theologian
The single greatest translation danger in Matthew: ‘exceeding’ (अधिक) righteousness must never be read as accumulating more religious merit points, a reading that would collapse this teaching into precisely the karma-merit or rule-multiplication framework Jesus is rejecting. Reuse baseline नीतिमत्त्व exactly; the exceeding is of kind (a transformed heart), not quantity of good deeds.
The Great Commission
Marathi name: महान आज्ञा (सर्व राष्ट्रांसाठी पाठवणूक)
Key terms: make_disciples, all_nations, baptismal_formula_trinity, teaching_to_observe, i_am_with_you_always
Review routing: Human theologian
πάντα τὰ ἔθνη here means all peoples/nations without exception, including Israel — broader than baseline’s अन्यजातीय (Gentiles-vs-Jews contrast in Romans); narrowing it would wrongly restrict the Commission’s universal scope. The Trinitarian baptismal formula must render ‘name’ (नावाने) as singular and undivided across all three Persons.
Judgment and the End of the Age
Marathi name: अंतिम न्याय आणि युगाचा शेवट
Key terms: end_of_the_age, parousia, final_judgment, eternal_life, eternal_punishment, this_generation, abomination_of_desolation
Review routing: Human theologian
युग (age) risks evoking Hindu cyclical yuga-cosmology, a recurring sequence of cosmic ages with no final terminus; this doctrine requires a single, final, linear end of history and one decisive judgment. Eternal punishment/life (25:46) must be conveyed as final, unending, personal destinies — never a temporary karmic consequence subject to eventual exhaustion or rebirth.
Incarnation
Marathi name: देहधारण
Key terms: incarnation, virgin, emmanuel, son_of_god
Review routing: Human theologian
NEVER अवतार, especially salient given Vitthal’s Vaishnav associations at the heart of Warkari devotion. The virgin conception (कुमारी) must never be softened to ‘young woman’ generically; Emmanuel (‘God with us’) must be explained as परमेश्वर आपल्याबरोबर, a one-time, unique divine presence, never one more avatar-descent.
Deity of Christ
Marathi name: ख्रिस्ताचे ईश्वरत्व
Key terms: son_of_god, worship, forgiveness_of_sins, transfiguration
Review routing: Human theologian
Co-equal, undiminished divine nature — not a beloved, humbly-postured personal deity like Vitthal within a devotee’s chosen pantheon, and not an enlightened human teacher elevated in memory. Jesus’ authority to forgive sins (9:2-8) is a direct claim to a divine prerogative and must not be softened into general pastoral reassurance.
Sonship of Christ
Marathi name: ख्रिस्ताचे पुत्रत्व
Key terms: son_of_god, confession_son_of_living_god, sons_of_god_plural
Review routing: Human theologian
Eternal, unique Sonship; must be kept sharply distinct from the plural, corporate ‘sons of God’ granted to peacemaking believers (5:9) — use देवाची लेकरे for the plural sense so no reader infers shared divine Sonship with Christ himself.
Son of Man / Messianic Self-Designation
Marathi name: मनुष्याचा पुत्र (मसीही अधिकार)
Key terms: son_of_man
Review routing: Human theologian
मनुष्याचा पुत्र must never be flattened to मानव (a generic ‘human being’), the natural false-friend reading of the Semitic idiom; in Jesus’ own usage it carries Daniel-7-rooted messianic-judicial authority combining humility and supreme divine authority to judge, requiring OT background teaching.
Resurrection of Christ
Marathi name: ख्रिस्ताचे पुनरुत्थान
Key terms: sign_of_jonah, crucify
Review routing: Human theologian
Baseline पुनरुत्थान reused exactly; NEVER पुनर्जन्म or पुनर्भव. Matthew’s sign-of-Jonah typology anchors this as a bodily, historical, once-for-all event, requiring positive explanation for readers formed by Buddhist anatta teaching, not just a corrected word.
The Unforgivable Sin (Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit)
Marathi name: पवित्र आत्म्याविरुद्ध निंदा (क्षमा न होणारे पाप)
Key terms: blasphemy_against_holy_spirit, holy_spirit
Review routing: Human theologian
Reuse baseline पवित्र आत्मा exactly. This doctrine requires precise, careful pastoral framing to avoid either trivializing it as ordinary blasphemy or inducing unwarranted pastoral fear in believers who are not in fact guilty of it; flag every occurrence for theologian review.
Grace versus Merit
Marathi name: कृपा विरुद्ध कर्मफळ
Key terms: grace, many_called_few_chosen, reward_heavenly
Review routing: Human theologian
The vineyard-laborers parable (20:1-16) is a prime teaching opportunity for reinforcing कृपा against any merit-proportional (karma-style) reading of divine reward. Reward language (प्रतिफळ) must never be rendered with a term suggesting merit accumulated in a karma-style ledger (avoid पुण्यफळ); the reward flows from grace already given, not earned by suffering or labor itself.
Atonement, Ransom, and Sacrificial Death
Marathi name: प्रायश्चित्त, खंडणी आणि बलिदानी मृत्यू
Key terms: ransom, lords_supper_body_blood_covenant, crucify, eli_eli_lema_sabachthani
Review routing: Human theologian
λύτρον (ransom, 20:28) must be rendered खंडणी and never मुक्ती, the baseline-forbidden Warkari-Hindu liberation term, to avoid Christ being misread as a guru/avatar-liberator rather than one paying a price on others’ behalf. The Last Supper’s covenant/forgiveness language must reuse baseline करार and पाप exactly; among the highest-stakes passages in the Gospel, flagged for theologian review at every pass.
Eternal Life versus Eternal Punishment
Marathi name: सार्वकालिक जीवन आणि सार्वकालिक शिक्षा
Key terms: eternal_life, eternal_punishment, regeneration_new_world
Review routing: Human theologian
Both destinies must be conveyed as final, unending, and personal — never a temporary karmic consequence subject to eventual exhaustion or rebirth, nor an impersonal cessation resembling निर्वाण. Regeneration/‘new world’ (19:28, παλιγγενεσία) must never be रendered as पुनर्जन्म, an especially acute false-friend given the Greek root’s literal ‘again-birth’ sense.
Authority to Forgive Sins
Marathi name: पापांची क्षमा करण्याचा अधिकार
Key terms: forgiveness_of_sins, authority
Review routing: Human theologian
Jesus claims and demonstrates a divine prerogative (only God forgives sins) — must be rendered so the astonishment this provoked is preserved, not softened into a general pastoral reassurance; directly supports the deity-of-Christ doctrine.
High Risk Doctrines
Fulfillment of Old Testament Prophecy
Marathi name: भविष्यवाणीची पूर्तता
Key terms: fulfilled, sign_of_jonah, cornerstone, prophecy, prophet
Review routing: Human theologian
Matthew’s ~12 fulfillment quotations assert linear, one-time historical fulfillment; must never be rendered so as to echo the cyclical cosmic time of Hindu yuga cycles, nor the Buddhist wheel of dependent-origination (pratityasamutpada), in which no single historical moment carries unrepeatable, final significance.
The Authority of Jesus’ Teaching
Marathi name: येशूच्या शिकवणीचा अधिकार
Key terms: authority, tradition_of_the_elders, abolish_the_law, greatest_commandment
Review routing: Human theologian
अधिकार must convey Jesus’ own, underived, divine authority — not the delegated authority of a scribe citing prior teachers, nor the attained authority of a guru through spiritual accomplishment recognized by disciples. Must be rendered identically at every recurrence throughout the Gospel to preserve the doctrine’s cumulative force.
The Church and Church Discipline
Marathi name: मंडळी आणि मंडळीचे शिस्तपालन
Key terms: church, keys_of_the_kingdom, bind_and_loose, church_discipline_procedure, gathered_in_my_name, stumbling_block
Review routing: Human theologian
Delegated authority for church governance (keys, bind/loose) must be clearly framed as exercised under Christ’s own supreme authority, never an independent priestly power. The graduated discipline procedure (18:15-17) must reuse मंडळी and पाप exactly, rendering each procedural step distinctly and in sequence.
Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus
Marathi name: शिष्यत्व आणि येशूला अनुसरण्याची किंमत
Key terms: disciple, follow_me, cross_discipleship, worthy, soul_life, little_faith
Review routing: Human theologian
शिष्य is the ordinary Marathi word for a guru’s student, gained through the student’s own initiative toward self-attained wisdom; every occurrence must be anchored to Jesus as the specific, exclusive object of following. The cross-as-metaphor (वधस्तंभ) must retain its weight as costly, potentially fatal self-denial, never softened to general hardship.
Repentance and the Kingdom
Marathi name: पश्चात्ताप आणि स्वर्गाचे राज्य
Key terms: repentance, baptism
Review routing: Human theologian
Must convey genuine inward turning to God in response to a specific divine summons — not a ritual purification rite (snana/tirtha-yatra) nor a self-driven ethical-improvement project resembling Buddhist self-cultivation along the Eightfold Path.
Worship of Christ
Marathi name: ख्रिस्ताची उपासना
Key terms: worship
Review routing: Human theologian
Worship directed at Jesus recognizes his deity and must not be rendered with vocabulary indistinguishable from Warkari bhakti darshan/puja gestures toward Vitthal or any other devotional figure; the object here is uniquely, exclusively divine.
Universal Scope of the Gospel
Marathi name: शुभवर्तमानाची सार्वत्रिकता
Key terms: tax_collectors_and_sinners, gentiles, all_nations, gospel
Review routing: Human theologian
No caste or community barrier to the gospel — a claim with unusually direct resonance in Maharashtra, where mass conversion to escape caste hierarchy (the 1956 Ambedkarite Buddhist conversion) is recent living memory. Jesus’ table-fellowship with tax collectors and sinners must be explained as social/religious marginalization, not conflated with specific Marathi caste categories, while the universal-scope principle is retained unqualified.
Effectual Calling and Election
Marathi name: परिणामकारक पाचारण आणि देवाची निवड
Key terms: called, election, many_called_few_chosen
Review routing: Human theologian
‘Many called, few chosen’ (22:14) must never be phrased so as to echo a karma-birth or caste-status framework of who is ‘chosen’ — a doctrine Ambedkarite Buddhist communities specifically and painfully rejected. This is God’s sovereign grace in salvation-history, offered universally, received by the humble who respond.
Providence
Marathi name: देवाचे विधान
Key terms: providence
Review routing: Human theologian
God’s personal, purposive governance and provision; must not be rendered so as to echo the karma-based explanation of misfortune or low social status that Ambedkarite Buddhist communities specifically rejected by converting away from caste Hinduism.
Faith and Little Faith
Marathi name: विश्वास आणि अल्पविश्वास
Key terms: faith, little_faith
Review routing: Human theologian
Personal trust in Christ specifically; not the devotional reverence (bhakti/shraddha) a Warkari devotee directs toward Vitthal. Little faith (अल्पविश्वासी) must be conveyed as wavering trust gently corrected, not condemned as an absence of faith.
The Beatitudes and Blessedness of the Kingdom
Marathi name: धन्यताविषयीची शिकवण (आशीर्वचने)
Key terms: blessed_beatitude, poor_in_spirit, mourn_comforted, meek_inherit_earth, merciful, pure_in_heart, see_god, peacemakers, persecuted_for_righteousness, reward_heavenly
Review routing: Human theologian
धन्य is a present declaration of the kingdom-belonging state, distinct from आशीर्वादित/धन्यवादित (reserved for εὐλογέω, ch. 21, 23). Poor-in-spirit and persecution-for-righteousness must never be read through the lens of caste-linked ritual poverty or karma-birth suffering, which Ambedkarite Buddhist communities explicitly reject; this is the theological anchor passage for the whole curriculum and requires the fullest scaffolding of any doctrine in this registry.
Kingdom Ethics: Love of Enemies and the Greatest Commandment
Marathi name: राज्याची नीतिशिकवण: शत्रूंवर प्रीती व सर्वात मोठी आज्ञा
Key terms: love_agape, greatest_commandment, perfect
Review routing: Human theologian
प्रीती/प्रेम must convey willed, self-giving covenantal love, not kama-rasa romantic-devotional love nor mere emotional affection; loving one’s enemy has no ready parallel in bhakti devotion (directed at a beloved deity) and needs positive explanation, not just lexical substitution.
The Temple and New Covenant Access to God
Marathi name: मंदिर आणि नव्या कराराद्वारे देवाजवळ प्रवेश
Key terms: temple_literal, temple_veil_torn, cornerstone
Review routing: Human theologian
मंदिर refers strictly to the literal historical Jerusalem building and must never be confused with मंडळी (church) in translator training. The torn veil (27:51) signifies direct, unmediated access to God opened through Christ’s death, a theological climax connecting to the baseline peace-with-God doctrine.
Medium Risk Doctrines
The Lord’s Prayer and Prayer Life
Marathi name: प्रभूची प्रार्थना आणि प्रार्थनामय जीवन
Key terms: sanctification_holy, forgiveness_of_sins, father
Review routing: Native speaker review
Petitionary prayer to a personal, listening Father; the ‘daily bread’ and ‘forgive us our debts’ petitions must retain a sense of ongoing relational dependence, not a one-time ritual request or an automatically-balanced karmic debt-ledger.
Baptism as Covenant Sign
Marathi name: कराराचे चिन्ह म्हणून बाप्तिस्मा
Key terms: baptism, baptismal_formula_trinity
Review routing: Native speaker review
बाप्तिस्मा is the established transliterated Marathi Christian term; keep distinct from ritual bathing (स्नान) for purification from ritual impurity, a very different conceptual category rooted in Hindu purity-pollution practice.
Low Risk Doctrines
The Parable as Kingdom Teaching Method
Marathi name: दाखल्याद्वारे राज्याची शिकवण
Key terms: parable, mysteries_of_the_kingdom
Review routing: Automated review
दाखला is a standard, well-established Marathi Bible term for this teaching form; low ambiguity risk beyond ensuring the ‘mysteries’ revealed are graciously given, not esoterically attained.
Stewardship and Faithful Service
Marathi name: कारभारीपण आणि विश्वासू सेवा
Key terms: talents, harvest_laborers
Review routing: Automated review
Faithful use of entrusted resources and labor in view of the master’s return; standard vocabulary with minor doctrinal risk beyond ensuring reward is not read as karma-merit (see grace_versus_merit doctrine for the Critical-risk overlap in 20:1-16).
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