Core Glossary
Core Glossary: 2 Thessalonians (English → Persian)
Curriculum: 2 Thessalonians | Language pair: English–Persian
Companion to: analysis/07_semantic_analysis.md
This glossary consolidates every load-bearing term identified across the full-book analysis (2 Thessalonians 1–3), covering both terms reused exactly from the baseline Romans translation_memory.json and terms newly proposed for this curriculum. New terms are marked [NEW] and require formal addition to a curriculum-specific translation memory extension before Phase 2 processing. Risk tiers and review routing follow the same Critical/High/Medium/Low framework and definitions used in doctrine_risk_registry.json.
A. Terms Reused Exactly from Baseline Romans Translation Memory
| English Term | Persian (reused) | Transliteration | Risk (baseline) | Chapters occurring | Reuse note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grace | فیض | feyz | High | 1:2, 1:12, 2:16, 3:18 | No change; feyz’s emanation caution applies at every closing/opening greeting |
| Peace | سلام | salam | Medium | 1:2, 3:16 | آرامش remains forbidden |
| Faith | ایمان | iman | High | 1:3, 1:4, 1:11, 2:13, 3:2 | Applied contrastively to “the lie” at 2:11 — teaching opportunity, not new risk |
| Church | کلیسا | kelisa | High | 1:1 | House-church reality framing applies |
| Kingdom of God | ملکوت خدا | malakut-e khoda | Medium | 1:5 | Distinguish from Velayat-e Faqih |
| Glory | جلال | jalal | Medium | 1:9, 1:10, 1:12, 2:14 | Sufi jalal/jamal caution applies |
| Sanctification | تقدیس | taqdis | High | 2:13 | Ritual-purification caution applies |
| Holy Spirit | روحالقدس | Ruh-ol-Qods | Critical | 2:13 | Gabriel/created-being caution applies; distinguish from generic “spirit” at 2:2 |
| Election (chose) | برگزیدگی خدا | bargozidegi-ye khoda | High | 2:13 | Imamate-succession caution applies |
| Calling | دعوت | da’vat | Medium | 1:11 | Direction-of-address caution applies |
| Salvation | نجات | nejat | Critical | 2:10, 2:13 | Karbala/Hussein intercession caution applies |
| Lord | خداوند | Khodavand | Critical | throughout (1:1–3:18) | Foundational to “Day of the Lord” and “Lord of peace” compounds |
| Jesus | عیسی | Isa | Critical | 1:1, 1:7, 1:8, 1:12, 2:1, 2:8, 2:14, 3:18 | No change |
| God | خدا | Khoda | Critical | throughout | No change |
| Father | پدر | pedar | Critical | 1:1, 1:2, 2:16 | No change |
| Power of God | قدرت خدا | qodrat-e khoda | Medium | 1:7 (angels of his power), 1:9 (glory of his strength) | No change |
B. New Terms Introduced by 2 Thessalonians (require translation-memory extension)
| English Term | Persian Rendering | Transliteration | Risk | Doctrine | Original (Greek) | Key Passages | Alternatives Rejected | Grounded Risk Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day of the Lord | روز خداوند | ruz-e Khodavand | Critical | The Day of the Lord | ἡμέρα τοῦ κυρίου | 2:2 | — | Risks default assimilation into the pre-existing generic Islamic “ruz-e qiyamat” (Judgment Day) category, itself entangled with Mahdi-centered eschatology; must be taught as Christ’s own specific day, tied explicitly to خداوند |
| Parousia / Coming (of Christ) | آمدن | āmadan | Critical | The Day of the Lord | παρουσία | 1:10 (implied), 2:1, 2:8, 2:9 | ظهور (zohur) — forbidden unqualified | ظهور is the specific technical term for the Hidden Twelfth Imam’s awaited reappearance in Twelver Shia eschatology; using it for Christ’s parousia risks importing or subordinating Christ’s return to that framework |
| Appearing / Epiphaneia | پدیدار شدن / آشکار شدن | padidār shodan / āshkār shodan | Critical | The Day of the Lord; The Man of Lawlessness | ἐπιφάνεια / ἀποκαλύπτω | 2:3, 2:6, 2:8 | ظهور; تجلی (tajalli) | Beyond the zohur/Mahdi collision, تجلی is the standard Sufi term for a divine theophany, risking a mystical-aesthetic reading of a concrete historical event |
| Man of Lawlessness | مرد بیقانونی | mard-e bi-qānuni | Critical | The Man of Lawlessness | ἄνθρωπος τῆς ἀνομίας | 2:3 | مرد گناه (built on گناه); مرد بیناموسی (built on ناموس) | Must not be built on ناموس (reserved for Mosaic Law) or گناه (reserved for ordinary sin); this figure’s lawlessness is total rebellion against divine moral order as a category, not Torah-violation or generic personal sin |
| Lawlessness | بیقانونی | bi-qānuni | Critical | The Man of Lawlessness | ἀνομία | 2:3, 2:7 | ناموس-based compound; گناه-based compound | Same grounded reason as “Man of Lawlessness” above; consistency across both terms is required |
| The Lawless One | بیقانون | bi-qānun | Critical | The Man of Lawlessness | ὁ ἄνομος | 2:8 | — | Must match بیقانونی above for cross-verse consistency |
| Son of Perdition | پسر هلاکت | pesar-e halākat | Critical | The Man of Lawlessness | υἱὸς τῆς ἀπωλείας | 2:3 | — | پسر is the identical noun fixed for “Son of God” (پسر خدا); the phrase functions as a deliberate scriptural antithesis that must never be blurred with, or read as competing positively against, Christ’s unique sonship |
| Apostasy / Rebellion | عصیان | osyān | Critical | The Man of Lawlessness; The Day of the Lord | ἀποστασία | 2:3 | ارتداد (ertedād) — forbidden | ertedād is the precise legal term for apostasy from Islam, carrying real capital/civil legal danger under Iranian law; using it here would import that real-world danger register into a Bible-study text unnecessarily |
| Mystery (of lawlessness) | راز | rāz | High | The Man of Lawlessness | μυστήριον | 2:7 | — | راز/رمز is heavily used in Sufi devotional poetry for positive esoteric divine secrets; risks a mismatched poetic resonance or confusion with mystical gnosis; gloss recommended |
| Restrainer | بازدارنده | bāzdārande | High | The Man of Lawlessness | ὁ κατέχων / τὸ κατέχον | 2:6, 2:7 | — | Risk is primarily interpretive: teachers must not supply an over-confident identification the Greek itself leaves ambiguous |
| Signs and Wonders (false) | نشانهها و عجایبِ دروغین | neshāneh-hā va ajāyeb-e doroghin | High | The Man of Lawlessness | σημεῖα καὶ τέρατα ψεύδους | 2:9 | نشانهها و عجایب (without qualifier) — forbidden unqualified | Shia hagiography attributes karāmāt (miraculous signs) to Imams/saints as marks of authentic holiness; the “false/doroghin” qualifier must never be dropped, or these could be read as evidence of the lawless one’s own genuine holiness |
| Love of the Truth | محبتِ حقیقت | mohabbat-e haqiqat | High | The Man of Lawlessness; God’s Righteous Judgment | ἀγάπη τῆς ἀληθείας | 2:10 | — | حقیقت is a major Sufi technical term (the innermost stage of the sharia-tariqa-haqiqa-marifa path); risks being heard as love for an esoteric mystical attainment rather than the gospel truth offered to and refused by ordinary people |
| Working of Delusion | عملِ گمراهی | amal-e gomrāhi | Critical | The Man of Lawlessness | ἐνέργεια πλάνης | 2:11 | — | Must be taught as judicial confirmation of a prior free rejection (2:10), not unconditional divine predetermination to unbelief; risk of collapse into fatalistic (qadar-style) misreading |
| God’s Righteous Judgment | داوری عادلانه خدا | dāvari-ye ‘ādelāneh-ye khodā | Critical | God’s Righteous Judgment | δικαία κρίσις τοῦ θεοῦ | 1:5, (2:12 داوری) | — | Must retain strictly forensic sense (built on فixed عدالت root) and resist assimilation into the Islamic mizan deeds-weighing framework already flagged in baseline; this verdict specifically vindicates faith-and-endurance and condemns persecution/gospel-rejection |
| Vengeance / Retribution | انتقام | enteqām | Critical | God’s Righteous Judgment | ἐκδίκησις | 1:8 | — | enteqām/qesās is codified Iranian criminal law (literal retaliation); risks portraying God’s judgment as personal vendetta or scaled retaliation rather than righteous judicial verdict by the rightful cosmic Judge |
| Pay the Penalty | مجازات را پرداختن | mojāzāt rā pardākhtan | High | God’s Righteous Judgment | δίκην τίσουσιν | 1:9 | — | δίκη and δικαιοσύνη share a root not visible in the Persian surface forms; teaching notes must make the thematic connection to 1:5’s righteous judgment explicit |
| Eternal Destruction | هلاکت ابدی | halākat-e abadi | Critical | God’s Righteous Judgment | ὄλεθρος αἰώνιος | 1:9 | — | Must be taught as relational separation from Christ’s presence (the text’s own definition), not merely physical torment or Zoroastrian Chinvat Bridge-style deeds-weighing sentence |
| Perseverance / Endurance | استقامت | esteqāmat | High | Perseverance under Persecution | ὑπομονή | 1:4, 3:5 | — | Risks assimilation into the Ashura/Karbala martyrdom-endurance paradigm (suffering itself accruing spiritual credit) rather than Spirit-sustained hope fixed on Christ’s certain future return |
| Persecution | جفا | jafā | Medium | Perseverance under Persecution | διωγμός | 1:4 | — | Classical Persian love-poetry resonance (“jafā-ye yār”) could soften the term toward romantic suffering; anchor plainly to hostile treatment for the faith |
| Affliction / Tribulation | رنج / مصیبت | ranj / mosibat | Medium | Perseverance under Persecution | θλῖψις | 1:4, 1:6, 1:7 | — | مصیبت carries secondary resonance with Muharram mourning-recitation vocabulary; use with plain, non-liturgical framing |
| Traditions | آموزه | āmuzeh | Critical | Standing Firm in the Traditions | παράδοσις | 2:15, 3:6 | سنت / سنتها (sonnat) — forbidden | سنت is the direct technical term for the Sunnah, second-highest source of Islamic authority; using it would invite reading apostolic tradition as a rival or competing “sunnah” claim |
| Stand Firm / Hold Fast | پایدار بمانید و محکم نگاه دارید | pāydār bemānid va mohkam negāh dārid | Medium | Standing Firm in the Traditions | στήκετε καὶ κρατεῖτε | 2:15 | — | Doctrinal weight sits in παράδοσις, not this verb pair; low independent risk |
| Deceit of Unrighteousness | فریبِ بیعدالتی | farib-e bi-‘edālati | Medium | God’s Righteous Judgment | ἀπάτη ἀδικίας | 2:10 | — | Built on baseline عدالت root so its forensic opposite stays visible to Persian readers |
| Those Perishing | هالکان / در حال هلاکت | hālekān / dar hāl-e halākat | Medium | God’s Righteous Judgment | ἀπολλύμενοι | 2:10 | — | Matches هلاکت used for “Son of Perdition” and “Eternal Destruction” for lexical consistency |
| The Evil One | آن شریر / شیطان | ān sharir / sheytān | Medium | The Man of Lawlessness | ὁ πονηρός | 3:3 | — | Shared vocabulary with Islamic Sheytān tradition; clarify personal being, not impersonal principle |
| Working of Satan | عملکرد شیطان | amalkard-e sheytān | Medium | The Man of Lawlessness | ἐνέργεια τοῦ σατανᾶ | 2:9 | — | Low-medium risk; teach that the lawless one’s power is entirely derivative, not independently divine |
| Temple of God | هیکل خدا | heykal-e khoda | Medium | The Man of Lawlessness | ναὸς τοῦ θεοῦ | 2:4 | — | Primarily interpretive risk (which referent — Jerusalem, future, or ecclesial); Persian readers lack a native “temple” category to draw on |
| Believe the Lie | به دروغ ایمان آوردن | be doroogh iman āvordan | Medium | The Man of Lawlessness | πιστεῦσαι τῷ ψεύδει | 2:11 | — | Deliberately retains ایمان’s root to show the same capacity for trust that should target Christ tragically misdirected onto a lie |
| Judged / Condemned | داوری شوند | dāvari shavand | Critical | God’s Righteous Judgment | κρίνω | 2:12 | — | Built on same داوری root as 1:5’s judgment for cross-passage consistency |
| Gathering together (to Christ) | جمع شدن نزد او | jam’ shodan-e mā nazd-e u | Medium | The Day of the Lord | ἐπισυναγωγή | 2:1 | — | Must not be confused with کلیسا (ordinary church gathering) |
| Imitate | پیروی کردن | peyravi kardan | Medium | Standing Firm in the Traditions | μιμέομαι | 3:7, 3:9 | تقلید کردن (usable but flagged) | تقلید is also the Shia jurisprudential term for following a marja’-e taqlid; پیروی کردن is the safer default |
| Disorderly / Idle Conduct | بینظمی / بیکارهگی | bi-nazmi / bikāregi | Low | Standing Firm in the Traditions | ἀτάκτως περιπατέω | 3:6, 3:7, 3:11 | — | No significant collision; ethical-community instruction |
| Busybody | فضول | fozul | Low | — | περιεργάζομαι | 3:11 | — | Colloquially vivid, well-understood, low risk |
| Sign (authenticating mark) | علامت / نشان | alāmat / neshān | Low | Standing Firm in the Traditions | σημεῖον | 3:17 | — | Distinct sense from “signs and wonders”; historical letter-authentication note recommended |
C. Risk Tier Summary for 2 Thessalonians New Terms
| Risk Tier | Count | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | 14 | Human theologian — every occurrence |
| High | 6 | Human theologian |
| Medium | 12 | Native speaker review |
| Low | 4 | Automated review |
Note on doctrine coverage: All five assigned curriculum doctrines (The Day of the Lord, The Man of Lawlessness, Perseverance under Persecution, God’s Righteous Judgment, Standing Firm in the Traditions) are anchored by at least one Critical-tier term above, consistent with the baseline’s own pattern of routing every Critical/High doctrine through mandatory human theologian review before Phase 2 translation proceeds.
Chapter coverage confirmation: Chapter 1 (thanksgiving, persecution, righteous judgment), Chapter 2 (Day of the Lord, Man of Lawlessness, election, traditions), and Chapter 3 (prayer, tradition/idleness instruction, benediction) have each been reviewed in full; no chapter of 2 Thessalonians was found to contain zero load-bearing theological vocabulary — every chapter contributes at least one new or reused Critical/High term to this glossary.
Critical Risk Terms
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: روحالقدس
Transliteration: Ruh-ol-Qods
Doctrine: Sanctification by the Spirit
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Occurs at 2:13. Must be clearly distinguished from the merely claimed ‘spirit’ (a purported prophetic utterance) at 2:2, which does not denote the Holy Spirit; the Gabriel/created-being caution applies to the true Holy Spirit reference.
Salvation
Approved rendering: نجات
Transliteration: nejat
Doctrine: Election and Effectual Calling
Original: σωτηρία
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Occurs at 2:10 (contrasted with those perishing) and 2:13; the Karbala/Hussein martyrdom-intercession caution applies without modification.
Lord
Approved rendering: خداوند
Transliteration: Khodavand
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Rejected alternatives: سرور
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Foundational throughout this letter (1:1-3:18) and specifically to the new compound ‘day_of_the_lord’ (روز خداوند) and ‘the Lord of peace’ (3:16); the tawhid-collision caution for ascribing supreme exclusive Lordship to a human-born man carries forward into every derived compound.
Jesus
Approved rendering: عیسی
Transliteration: Isa
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Occurs at 1:1, 1:7, 1:8, 1:12, 2:1, 2:8, 2:14, 3:18; the Quranic prophet-only, non-crucified, non-divine narrative caution applies at every occurrence.
God
Approved rendering: خدا
Transliteration: Khoda
Doctrine: God’s Righteous Judgment
Rejected alternatives: الله
Original: θεός
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Occurs throughout; the tawhid-versus-Trinity content caution applies without modification.
Father
Approved rendering: پدر
Transliteration: pedar
Doctrine: Grace and Peace Benediction
Original: πατήρ
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Occurs at 1:1, 1:2, 2:16; the tawhid-anthropomorphism caution applies without modification.
Messiah
Approved rendering: مسیح
Transliteration: Masih
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Occurs throughout as part of ‘Lord Jesus Christ’; the Mahdi-displacement caution applies - Christ’s own primary, sufficient redemptive role must be actively asserted at every occurrence, not merely his honored status.
Son Of God
Approved rendering: پسر خدا
Transliteration: pesar-e khoda
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Rejected alternatives: برگزیده خدا
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Not a term occurring in the 2 Thessalonians text itself, but retained here as the fixed anchor term for the deliberate scriptural antithesis created by the new term ‘son_of_perdition’ (پسر هلاکت) at 2:3; every teaching of Son of Perdition must reference this entry to preserve the antithesis and prevent any blurring of the two ‘son’ phrases.
Day Of The Lord
Approved rendering: روز خداوند
Transliteration: ruz-e Khodavand
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Rejected alternatives: روز قیامت
Original: ἡμέρα τοῦ κυρίου
Category: Eschatology
CRITICAL: Persian-speaking, Islamic-background readers already possess a fully-formed category ‘ruz-e qiyamat’ (Day of Resurrection/Judgment), itself entangled with Mahdi-centered eschatology. روز خداوند must be taught as a distinct, Christ-centered event, tied explicitly to Jesus’s own Lordship (خداوند) at every occurrence (2:2), never assumed to slot silently into the pre-existing generic Islamic category.
Parousia
Approved rendering: آمدن
Transliteration: āmadan
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Rejected alternatives: ظهور
Original: παρουσία
Category: Eschatology
CRITICAL: ظهور (zohur) is FORBIDDEN unqualified - it is the load-bearing technical term for the awaited reappearance of the Hidden Twelfth Imam in Twelver Shia eschatology, arguably the single most anticipated religious event in Iranian popular piety. Using it for Christ’s parousia risks importing the entire Mahdi-centered framework onto Christ or subordinating his return to it. Occurs at 1:10 (implied), 2:1, 2:8, 2:9; use the fuller phrase ‘بازگشت خداوند ما عیسی مسیح’ where more theological weight is needed.
Appearing Epiphaneia
Approved rendering: پدیدار شدن (Christ) / آشکار شدن (the lawless one)
Transliteration: padidār shodan / āshkār shodan
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Rejected alternatives: ظهور, تجلی
Original: ἐπιφάνεια / ἀποκαλύπτω
Category: Eschatology
CRITICAL: beyond the ظهور/Mahdi collision documented for parousia, تجلی (tajalli) is the standard Persian Sufi term for a divine theophany/self-disclosure and must also be avoided, since it would import a mystical-aesthetic register onto a concrete, historical, bodily event. Use پدیدار شدن for Christ’s own appearing (2:8) and آشکار شدن for the lawless one’s unveiling (2:3, 2:6), keeping the two lexically distinct from each other and from any Mahdi- or Sufi-loaded vocabulary.
Man Of Lawlessness
Approved rendering: مرد بیقانونی
Transliteration: mard-e bi-qānuni
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Rejected alternatives: مرد گناه, مرد بیناموسی
Original: ἄνθρωπος τῆς ἀνομίας
Category: Man of Lawlessness
CRITICAL: must not be built on ناموس (reserved exclusively in baseline for the Mosaic Law) or گناه (reserved for ordinary personal sin). This figure’s ‘lawlessness’ is total rebellion against divine moral order as a category, not Torah-violation or generic personal sin. Occurs at 2:3. A deliberate coinage transparent to Persian readers while avoiding both baseline collisions.
Lawlessness
Approved rendering: بیقانونی
Transliteration: bi-qānuni
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Rejected alternatives: ناموس-based compound, گناه-based compound
Original: ἀνομία
Category: Man of Lawlessness
CRITICAL: same grounded reason as ‘man_of_lawlessness’. Occurs at 2:3 and 2:7 (‘the mystery of lawlessness is already at work’); must be used consistently at every occurrence for the doctrine to remain lexically traceable across the passage.
The Lawless One
Approved rendering: بیقانون
Transliteration: bi-qānun
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Original: ὁ ἄνομος
Category: Man of Lawlessness
CRITICAL: the substantive title at the figure’s climactic unveiling and destruction (2:8). Must match بیقانونی/مرد بیقانونی exactly for cross-verse consistency; any deviation breaks the doctrinal thread for the reader.
Son Of Perdition
Approved rendering: پسر هلاکت
Transliteration: pesar-e halākat
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Original: υἱὸς τῆς ἀπωλείας
Category: Man of Lawlessness
CRITICAL: پسر is the identical noun already fixed in baseline for پسر خدا (Son of God), Christ’s unique divine sonship confession. Occurs at 2:3. Creates a deliberate scriptural antithesis (the true Son vs. the son doomed to ruin) that teaching must preserve explicitly, never blur as a rival positive ‘son’ figure. هلاکت (ongoing ruin/exclusion) is chosen over نابودی (mere annihilation) to preserve the biblical sense.
Apostasy Rebellion
Approved rendering: عصیان
Transliteration: osyān
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Rejected alternatives: ارتداد
Original: ἀποστασία
Category: Eschatology
CRITICAL: ارتداد (ertedād) is FORBIDDEN - it is the precise, legally loaded Islamic-jurisprudence term for apostasy from Islam, which under Iranian law carries capital or severe civil penalty. Using it for this end-times ‘falling away’ (2:3) would import the real-world danger register of Iran’s apostasy laws directly into a Bible-study text for an underground house-church readership already living under exactly that legal exposure for their own conversion. عصیان keeps the revolt/departure sense without invoking that specific legal category.
Working Of Delusion
Approved rendering: عملِ گمراهی
Transliteration: amal-e gomrāhi
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Original: ἐνέργεια πλάνης
Category: Judgment
CRITICAL: occurs at 2:11. Must be taught as God’s judicial confirmation of a prior, freely chosen rejection of ‘the love of the truth’ (v.10), never as unconditional divine predetermination to unbelief, matching the same distinction baseline requires for providence (تدبیر الهی) against folk qadar-fatalism. Left unglossed, this risks collapsing into a fatalistic reading in which God simply predetermines some to unbelief apart from their own prior refusal.
Gods Righteous Judgment
Approved rendering: داوری عادلانه خدا
Transliteration: dāvari-ye ‘ādelāneh-ye khodā
Doctrine: God’s Righteous Judgment
Rejected alternatives: میزان-based rendering
Original: δικαία κρίσις τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Judgment
CRITICAL: occurs at 1:5. Built deliberately on baseline عدالت’s root (عادلانه) for lexical continuity with the already-fixed forensic/credited sense of righteousness. Must resist assimilation into the Islamic mizan deeds-weighing framework already flagged in baseline under ‘sin’/‘salvation’; this verdict specifically vindicates faith-and-endurance and condemns persecution/gospel-rejection, not universal scale-balancing of deeds.
Vengeance Retribution
Approved rendering: انتقام
Transliteration: enteqām
Doctrine: God’s Righteous Judgment
Rejected alternatives: قصاص
Original: ἐκδίκησις
Category: Judgment
CRITICAL: occurs at 1:8. enteqām/qesās retributive justice is not merely a cultural value but codified Iranian criminal law (literal retaliation) governing actual punishment procedure. Teaching must distinguish divine ekdikesis from both private vengeance and state-administered qesās, presenting it as a righteous, judicial, eschatological verdict by the rightful cosmic Judge, not a personal vendetta or scaled tit-for-tat.
Eternal Destruction
Approved rendering: هلاکت ابدی
Transliteration: halākat-e abadi
Doctrine: God’s Righteous Judgment
Original: ὄλεθρος αἰώνιος
Category: Judgment
CRITICAL: occurs at 1:9. Zoroastrianism’s indigenous Chinvat Bridge doctrine (flagged in baseline under ‘sin’) independently supplies a vivid pre-Islamic hell-concept reached by deeds-weighing failure. Must be taught as the text’s own definition - relational separation ‘away from the presence of the Lord’ - not accumulated bad deeds outweighing good ones. Matches هلاکت used for ‘Son of Perdition’ (2:3) for lexical consistency.
Judged Condemned
Approved rendering: داوری شوند
Transliteration: dāvari shavand
Doctrine: God’s Righteous Judgment
Original: κριθῶσιν (κρίνω)
Category: Judgment
CRITICAL: occurs at 2:12. Built on the same داوری root used for God’s righteous judgment at 1:5 for required cross-passage consistency; must remain recognizably linked to that judgment vocabulary at every occurrence.
Traditions
Approved rendering: آموزه
Transliteration: āmuzeh
Doctrine: Standing Firm in the Traditions
Rejected alternatives: سنت, سنتها
Original: παράδοσις
Category: Tradition
CRITICAL: occurs at 2:15 and 3:6. سنت is FORBIDDEN - it is the direct, load-bearing technical term for the Sunnah, the second-highest source of Islamic authority, with an added Shia hadith/riwayat transmission layer anchoring Shia legal-theological authority. Rendering paradosis as سنت would invite reading apostolic tradition as a rival or competing ‘Sunnah’ claim. آموزه (a modern, religiously neutral word for ‘teaching/tenet’) must be used at BOTH occurrences for this doctrine’s lexical thread to remain visible and safe for the learner.
High Risk Terms
Gospel
Approved rendering: انجیل
Transliteration: Injil
Doctrine: Gospel
Rejected alternatives: مژده
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Occurs in 2 Thessalonians 1:8 (‘who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus’) and 2:14 (‘he called you through our gospel’); the tahrif/corrupted-predecessor-text caution applies unchanged.
Grace
Approved rendering: فیض
Transliteration: feyz
Doctrine: Grace and Peace Benediction
Rejected alternatives: لطف
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Occurs in every greeting/closing of this letter (1:2, 1:12, 2:16, 3:18); the Illuminationist/Mulla Sadra ‘emanation’ caution applies at each occurrence.
Faith
Approved rendering: ایمان
Transliteration: iman
Doctrine: Faith
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Occurs at 1:3, 1:4, 1:11, 2:13, 3:2; also underlies the new compound ‘believe the lie’ (2:11), where the same root for trust is tragically misdirected onto falsehood - a teaching opportunity, not a new lexical risk.
Church
Approved rendering: کلیسا
Transliteration: kelisa
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Rejected alternatives: امت
Original: ἐκκλησία
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Occurs at 1:1 (‘to the church of the Thessalonians’); house-church-reality framing applies. Must not be confused with the new term ‘gathering_together’ (ἐπισυναγωγή), the distinct eschatological gathering to Christ at 2:1.
Sanctification
Approved rendering: تقدیس
Transliteration: taqdis
Doctrine: Sanctification by the Spirit
Original: ἁγιασμὸς πνεύματος
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Occurs at 2:13 (‘sanctification by the Spirit’); the ritual-purification caution applies.
Election
Approved rendering: برگزیدگی خدا
Transliteration: bargozidegi-ye khoda
Doctrine: Election and Effectual Calling
Original: αἱρέω (εἵλετο)
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Occurs at 2:13 (‘God chose you’); the Shia Imamate-succession caution applies without modification.
Mystery Of Lawlessness
Approved rendering: راز
Transliteration: rāz
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Original: μυστήριον τῆς ἀνομίας
Category: Eschatology
HIGH: راز/رمز is heavily worked in Persian Sufi devotional poetry (Hafez, Rumi) for positive esoteric divine secrets disclosed to initiates. Applying it to lawlessness already at work (2:7) risks a mismatched poetic resonance or confusion with mystical gnosis. A brief gloss (e.g. ‘رازِ شرارتآلود’) is recommended at first use.
Restrainer
Approved rendering: بازدارنده
Transliteration: bāzdārande
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Original: τὸ κατέχον / ὁ κατέχων
Category: Eschatology
HIGH: the unnamed restraining force/person of 2:6-7. Risk here is chiefly interpretive rather than a live cultural-collision risk - teachers must resist supplying a confident identification (Roman order, God’s providence, the gospel, the Spirit via the church) that the Greek text itself leaves ambiguous. A wrong confident answer distorts the entire passage’s eschatological timeline for a first-time reader.
Signs And Wonders False
Approved rendering: نشانهها و عجایبِ دروغین
Transliteration: neshāneh-hā va ajāyeb-e doroghin
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Rejected alternatives: نشانهها و عجایب (without qualifier)
Original: σημεῖα καὶ τέρατα ψεύδους
Category: Man of Lawlessness
HIGH: Twelver Shia popular hagiography attributes karāmāt (miraculous signs) to the Imams and venerated shrine saints as authenticating marks of holiness. Occurs at 2:9. The دروغین qualifier must NEVER be dropped, or these signs risk being read as evidence of genuine holiness rather than exposed as counterfeit; the doctrinal point that miracles alone never certify divine authority must be taught explicitly.
Love Of The Truth
Approved rendering: محبتِ حقیقت
Transliteration: mohabbat-e haqiqat
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Original: ἡ ἀγάπη τῆς ἀληθείας
Category: Faith
HIGH: occurs at 2:10. حقیقت is a major technical term in the classical Sufi fourfold path (sharia/tariqa/haqiqa/marifa), denoting an innermost mystical Reality attained only at an advanced stage. Rendering ἀλήθεια as حقیقت risks the phrase being heard as love for an esoteric mystical attainment reserved for initiates rather than gospel truth freely offered to, and refused by, ordinary people. A contextual gloss anchoring حقیقت to ‘the truth of the gospel/Christ’ is recommended at first use.
Pay The Penalty
Approved rendering: مجازات را خواهند پرداخت
Transliteration: mojāzāt rā khāhand pardākht
Doctrine: God’s Righteous Judgment
Original: δίκην τίσουσιν
Category: Judgment
HIGH: occurs at 1:9. δίκη and δικαιοσύνη share a Greek root that the Persian rendering (مجازات) does not visibly share; teaching notes must make the thematic connection to 1:5’s righteous judgment explicit even though the surface vocabulary differs.
Perseverance Endurance
Approved rendering: استقامت
Transliteration: esteqāmat
Doctrine: Perseverance under Persecution
Original: ὑπομονή
Category: Perseverance
HIGH: occurs at 1:4 and 3:5. استقامت and its companion sabr are richly developed virtues in Iranian Shia piety through the Ashura/Karbala narrative - Imam Hussein’s steadfast endurance unto martyrdom, commemorated annually as the paradigmatic model of righteous suffering. Genuine bridge concept, but risks the Thessalonians’ endurance being assimilated into a martyrdom-merit framework (suffering accruing spiritual credit) rather than Spirit-sustained hope fixed on Christ’s certain future return.
Medium Risk Terms
Peace
Approved rendering: سلام
Transliteration: salam
Doctrine: Grace and Peace Benediction
Rejected alternatives: آرامش
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Occurs at 1:2 and 3:16 (‘the Lord of peace himself’); آرامش remains forbidden.
Kingdom Of God
Approved rendering: ملکوت خدا
Transliteration: malakut-e khoda
Doctrine: Kingdom Mission
Original: βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Kingdom
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Occurs at 1:5 (‘the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering’); distinguish from Iran’s own Velayat-e Faqih governing structure.
Glory
Approved rendering: جلال
Transliteration: jalal
Doctrine: God’s Righteous Judgment
Original: δόξα
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Occurs at 1:9, 1:10, 1:12, 2:14; the Sufi jalal/jamal devotional caution applies to Christ’s specific historical glory at his coming.
Calling
Approved rendering: دعوت
Transliteration: da’vat
Doctrine: Election and Effectual Calling
Original: κλῆσις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Occurs at 1:11 and 2:14 (‘through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory’); the direction-of-address caution applies.
Power Of God
Approved rendering: قدرت خدا
Transliteration: qodrat-e khoda
Doctrine: God’s Righteous Judgment
Original: δύναμις / ἰσχύς
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Occurs at 1:7 (‘the angels of his power’) and 1:9 (‘the glory of his strength’); broadly compatible concept, standard care applies.
Gathering Together
Approved rendering: جمع شدن نزد او
Transliteration: jam’ shodan-e mā nazd-e u
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: ἐπισυναγωγή
Category: Eschatology
Believers’ being gathered together to Christ at his parousia (2:1). Must not be confused with کلیسا (the ordinary gathered church assembly, already fixed in baseline); this is the specific eschatological gathering to Christ himself at his coming, described phrasally rather than with a single noun.
Working Of Satan
Approved rendering: عملکرد شیطان
Transliteration: amalkard-e sheytān
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Original: ἐνέργεια τοῦ σατανᾶ
Category: Man of Lawlessness
Occurs at 2:9. شیطان is broadly shared, negatively-regarded vocabulary across Islamic and Christian Persian usage, giving this a low-medium collision risk; the key teaching point is that the lawless one’s power is entirely derivative/parasitic, never independently divine.
Temple Of God
Approved rendering: هیکل خدا
Transliteration: heykal-e khoda
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Original: ναὸς τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Man of Lawlessness
Occurs at 2:4. Islamic theology has no directly parallel ‘temple’ category, so risk is primarily interpretive (which referent - Jerusalem, a future rebuilt temple, or the church - is intended) rather than a live cultural-religious collision; a teaching note on the intended referent is required.
The Evil One
Approved rendering: آن شریر / شیطان
Transliteration: ān sharir / sheytān
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Original: ὁ πονηρός
Category: Man of Lawlessness
Occurs at 3:3 (‘the Lord … will guard you against the evil one’). Shared vocabulary with the Islamic Sheytān tradition; low-medium risk, mainly requiring clarity that this denotes a personal evil being, not an impersonal principle of evil.
Believe The Lie
Approved rendering: به دروغ ایمان آوردن
Transliteration: be doroogh iman āvordan
Doctrine: The Man of Lawlessness
Original: πιστεῦσαι τῷ ψεύδει
Category: Faith
Occurs at 2:11. Deliberately retains ایمان’s root (already fixed in baseline) so the teaching point remains visible in the Persian text itself: the very capacity for trust that should be directed at Christ is here tragically misdirected onto a lie.
Deceit Of Unrighteousness
Approved rendering: فریبِ بیعدالتی
Transliteration: farib-e bi-‘edālati
Doctrine: God’s Righteous Judgment
Original: ἀπάτη ἀδικίας
Category: Judgment
Occurs at 2:10. Deliberately built on baseline عدالت’s root so the forensic opposite (بیعدالتی) stays visible to Persian readers already trained on عدالت from Romans-based study.
Those Perishing
Approved rendering: هالکان / در حال هلاکت
Transliteration: hālekān / dar hāl-e halākat
Doctrine: God’s Righteous Judgment
Original: οἱ ἀπολλύμενοι
Category: Judgment
Occurs at 2:10. Matches هلاکت already used for ‘Son of Perdition’ (2:3) and ‘Eternal Destruction’ (1:9) for lexical consistency of the same underlying root across the letter.
Persecution
Approved rendering: جفا
Transliteration: jafā
Doctrine: Perseverance under Persecution
Original: διωγμός
Category: Perseverance
Occurs at 1:4. Classical Persian love poetry (‘جفای یار,’ the beloved’s cruelty) lends this word a secondary romantic-suffering resonance; anchor plainly to hostile treatment for the faith, not poetic/romantic suffering.
Affliction Tribulation
Approved rendering: رنج / مصیبت
Transliteration: ranj / mosibat
Doctrine: Perseverance under Persecution
Original: θλῖψις
Category: Perseverance
Occurs at 1:4, 1:6, 1:7. مصیبت carries secondary resonance with Muharram mourning-recitation vocabulary (mosibat-khāni); use with plain, non-liturgical framing.
Stand Firm Hold Fast
Approved rendering: پایدار بمانید و محکم نگاه دارید
Transliteration: pāydār bemānid va mohkam negāh dārid
Doctrine: Standing Firm in the Traditions
Original: στήκετε καὶ κρατεῖτε
Category: Tradition
Occurs at 2:15. Doctrinal weight sits in παράδοσις/آموزه itself, not this verb pair; low-medium independent risk beyond ensuring the object held onto is rendered correctly.
Imitate
Approved rendering: پیروی کردن
Transliteration: peyravi kardan
Doctrine: Standing Firm in the Traditions
Rejected alternatives: تقلید کردن (usable but flagged; avoid as default)
Original: μιμέομαι
Category: Tradition
Occurs at 3:7, 3:9. تقلید is also the specific Shia jurisprudential term for ‘following/emulating’ a qualified religious authority (marja’-e taqlid) in matters of religious practice. Paul commends imitating his personal conduct/example, not submission to an ongoing juridical authority-office; پیروی کردن is the safer default.
Low Risk Terms
Thanksgiving
Approved rendering: شکرگزاری
Transliteration: shokr-gozari
Doctrine: Grace and Peace Benediction
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Occurs at 1:3 (‘we ought always to thank God for you’) and 2:13; shukr is a shared Islamic virtue category, low risk.
Exhort
Approved rendering: تشویق کردن
Transliteration: tashviq kardan
Doctrine: Apostolic Authority and Instruction
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Context-sensitive: applies to 3:12 (‘we command and encourage them’) and the comfort-adjacent sense at 2:17; use نصیحت کردن only where an admonishing sense is intended, matching the baseline’s own context-sensitive gloss.
Disorderly Idle Conduct
Approved rendering: بینظمی رفتار کردن / بیکارهگی کردن
Transliteration: bi-nazmi raftār kardan / bikāregi kardan
Doctrine: Work Ethic and Avoiding Idleness
Original: ἀτάκτως περιπατέω
Category: Church
Occurs at 3:6, 3:7, 3:11. No significant doctrinal-cultural collision; purely ethical-community instruction.
Busybody
Approved rendering: فضول
Transliteration: fozul
Doctrine: Work Ethic and Avoiding Idleness
Original: περιεργάζομαι
Category: Church
Occurs at 3:11. Colloquially vivid, well-understood, low risk; the Greek wordplay with ἐργάζομαι (‘working’ vs. ‘over-working’/meddling) is largely untranslatable and is better handled in teaching notes.
Sign Authenticating Mark
Approved rendering: علامت / نشان
Transliteration: alāmat / neshān
Doctrine: Standing Firm in the Traditions
Original: σημεῖον
Category: Tradition
Occurs at 3:17 (‘this is the sign in every letter, that this is how I write’). Distinct sense from the ‘signs and wonders’ of 2:9; low risk, though a brief historical-contextual note on ancient letter-authentication practice is recommended.
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