Linguistic Gap Analysis — Revelation

English → Polish | Full-Book Coverage, Doctrine Vocabulary Matrix, Semantic Fencing, Transliteration Decisions, Ranked Ambiguities

This analysis extends, and never contradicts, the baseline Romans translation_memory.json/bible_term_registry.json and the Revelation-specific 08_core_glossary.md and its extended bible_term_registry.json. It answers the Step 8 mandate: where does Polish lack adequate vocabulary for Revelation’s doctrine set, where does existing Polish religious vocabulary carry crowded, competing associations that must be fenced off, which terms should be transliterated versus paraphrased, and — ranked — which ambiguities carry the greatest risk of doctrinal distortion for a Polish audience.

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1. Doctrine Vocabulary Matrix

For each of the nine curriculum doctrines: available Polish terms, their weaknesses/gaps, and the recommended handling strategy. All Polish renderings below are already fixed in the extended term registry; this section explains why those choices were necessary.

1.1 The Return and Reign of Christ

Available Polish terms	Weaknesses	Recommended strategy
Pan (baseline), Król królów i Pan panów, władca królów ziemi, przyjdę wkrótce/szybko, każde oko Go ujrzy	Polish has strong monarchical vocabulary (król, władca, panowanie) inherited from partition-era and later Solidarity-era political rhetoric about sovereignty and rightful rule — a resource, not a gap. The weakness is temporal, not lexical: Polish tense/aspect can flatten the “already inaugurated, not yet consummated” tension (11:15’s kingdom “has become,” present reality; 19:16, future-consummated reign) into either a purely future or purely past-tense reading.	Render “ἐγένετο” (11:15) as a Polish perfective past (“stało się”) explicitly glossed as “already true, not yet fully visible,” paired every time with a note distinguishing inaugurated vs. consummated reign. Do not let “przyjdę wkrótce” collapse into either date-setting literalism or dismissive metaphor — teach both as intentional.

1.2 The Sovereignty of God over History

Available Polish terms	Weaknesses	Recommended strategy
Wszechmogący, Alfa i Omega, Ten, który jest i który był i który przychodzi, Ten, który siedzi na tronie, opatrzność Boża (baseline)	“Wszechmogący” is a strength (Nicene Creed anchor). The gap is the Exodus 3:14 echo in “ὁ ὢν”: plain Polish “Ten, który jest” does not self-evidently signal the divine self-existent Name to a reader without catechesis, unlike the Greek’s transparent echo of the LXX.	Fixed formula rendering (already registry-locked) plus a mandatory cross-reference note to Exodus 3:14 at every occurrence (1:4,8; 4:8), since the connection is invisible in Polish without explicit flagging — this is a structural, not lexical, gap.

1.3 Perseverance and Faithful Witness under Persecution

Available Polish terms	Weaknesses	Recommended strategy
wytrwałość, ucisk/wielki ucisk, świadek/świadectwo, zwyciężać/zwycięzca	Polish possesses rich, emotionally loaded vocabulary for endurance under oppression (wytrwałość, opór, walka, ofiara) drawn from partition, occupation, and communist-era resistance memory. This is simultaneously Revelation’s greatest pedagogical asset and its greatest risk: the same words carry nationalist/political-triumphalist freight that Revelation’s own theology (12:11) explicitly redefines around the Lamb’s blood and testimony, not force or ethnic struggle.	Every occurrence of “zwyciężać” must be textually anchored back to 12:11’s own definition; never allow “wytrwałość” or “ucisk” to be taught with implicit reference to a single national historical episode (e.g., martial law, WWII occupation) as the paradigm case, even though such episodes are legitimate illustrative material.

1.4 Judgment of the Wicked and Vindication of the Saints

Available Polish terms	Weaknesses	Recommended strategy
sądzeni według swoich czynów, wielki biały tron, jezioro ognia i siarki, druga śmierć, dusze pod ołtarzem	Polish Catholic catechesis’ merit-cooperation framework (already flagged Critical for “usprawiedliwienie” in the baseline) creates real risk that “judged according to works” (20:12-13) is read as salvation-by-ledger at the book’s very climax, undoing the forensic doctrine established earlier in the curriculum’s parent Romans study.	Every occurrence must carry the explicit clarifying frame: judgment reveals, it does not establish, a prior standing of faith or unbelief (cf. Book of Life, 20:15). Pair “sądzeni według czynów” with a mandatory cross-reference to “poczytana sprawiedliwość” (baseline) to prevent doctrinal contradiction between the two curricula.

1.5 The New Heaven and New Earth

Available Polish terms	Weaknesses	Recommended strategy
nowe niebo i nowa ziemia, Nowe Jeruzalem, nie będzie już przekleństwa, Oto wszystko czynię nowe	Polish “nowy” does not lexically distinguish Greek καινός (new in kind/quality) from νέος (new in time/recent) — a genuine structural gap, since Polish has only one common adjective covering both senses.	Mandatory translator note at every occurrence of “nowy” in this doctrinal cluster (21:1, 21:5) explicitly stating the Greek is καινός — qualitative renewal, not replacement or mere temporal recency — since Polish morphology gives no native signal of this distinction.

1.6 The Church as Bride of Christ

Available Polish terms	Weaknesses	Recommended strategy
oblubienica, Gody Baranka	See Section 3.1 below (crowded neighborhood: Marian “Oblubienica Ducha Świętego”). No missing-vocabulary gap — the term exists and is correct — but it is semantically crowded, not absent.	Mandatory disambiguating note at every occurrence distinguishing the corporate-ecclesial referent from the personal-Marian devotional title.

1.7 Worship of the Lamb

Available Polish terms	Weaknesses	Recommended strategy
Baranek, oddawać pokłon/wielbić, godzien, Święty Święty Święty, służyć [kultem]	The gap is not vocabulary but connotative range: “Baranek” via Agnus Dei liturgical association risks narrowing to a gentle, passive Eucharistic image, while Revelation’s Lamb is also the wrathful, conquering, reigning Lamb (6:16; 17:14). Polish has no single word carrying both registers simultaneously.	Deliberately pair “Baranek” with active-verb, sovereign-authority context (“Baranek, który zwycięża,” “gniew Baranka”) at every occurrence outside chapters 5 and 7, to force the fuller range into view rather than relying on the noun alone.

1.8 Symbolic and Apocalyptic Interpretation

Available Polish terms	Weaknesses	Recommended strategy
oznajmić [w znakach/wizjach] (σημαίνω), Bestia, Smok, znamię Bestii, Armagedon, sto czterdzieści cztery tysiące, wielki tłum	This is the single largest gap-and-fencing category in the whole book: Polish possesses adequate literal vocabulary for every image, but no native interpretive convention signaling “this is symbolic, not literal-predictive” the way “σημαίνω” does in the Greek text’s own opening verse. Without explicit hermeneutical framing, a Polish reader (whether Catholic-cultural, Evangelical, or influenced by Jehovah’s Witness literalism) defaults to either allegorical free-association or newspaper-headline literalism.	Establish “oznajmić w znakach” (1:1) as the governing hermeneutical key-term for the entire curriculum, restated at the introduction of every major symbolic unit (beasts, numbers, bowls, colors) rather than assumed to transfer forward from a single early mention.

1.9 Assurance of God’s Final Victory over Evil

Available Polish terms	Weaknesses	Recommended strategy
Stało się, wytrze każdą łzę, żałoba/krzyk/ból, nie będzie już przekleństwa, wiarygodne i prawdziwe	No missing vocabulary; the risk is register-flattening — “Stało się” (“Gegonen”) in ordinary Polish speech can sound almost casual (“it happened”) rather than a solemn declaration of finished, irreversible cosmic accomplishment.	Pair with intonational/typographic distinction in curriculum materials (e.g., capitalization, standalone declaration) and an explicit note contrasting it with Christ’s “Wykonało się” (John 19:30, τετέλεσται) as a related but distinct climactic declaration.

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2. Missing Vocabulary vs. Crowded Semantic Neighborhoods

2.1 Genuine Missing-Vocabulary Gaps (Polish lacks a precise native equivalent; compound/paraphrase required)

Concept	Gap	Resolution
καινός vs νέος (“new”)	Single Polish adjective “nowy” covers both; no morphological signal of qualitative vs. temporal newness	Mandatory translator note at every “new heaven/new earth” occurrence (Sec. 1.5)
σημαίνω (signify by symbol)	Polish “oznajmić” or “pokazać” alone reads as plain communication, not symbol-coded revelation	Fixed compound “oznajmić [w znakach/wizjach],” restated at each symbolic unit
ἑπτὰ πνεύματα (seven spirits)	Literal “siedem duchów” reads as polytheistic plurality; no native Polish idiom for “sevenfold fullness of one Spirit”	Bracketed clarifier “[Bożych]” plus mandatory teaching note at every occurrence (already registry-locked)
σκηνόω (tabernacle/dwell)	Plain “zamieszka” is accurate but loses the deliberate OT-tabernacle/Incarnation echo (John 1:14) that the Greek root carries	Retain noun “przybytek” alongside verb “zamieszka [z nimi]” with translator note cross-referencing Incarnation doctrine
ἄβυσσος vs λίμνη τοῦ πυρός (abyss vs. lake of fire)	Colloquial Polish “piekło” (hell) is used loosely for both in ordinary religious speech, collapsing a present-temporary/final-eternal distinction the Greek text maintains	Retain distinct terms “otchłań” / “jezioro ognia” with an explicit contrastive note every time both appear in the same teaching unit
δωρεάν (“freely,” water of life)	Polish “darmo” is accurate but colloquially undersells the theological weight (grace) carried by the Greek term’s cognate relationship to δωρεά/δῶρον	Retain “darmo” but pair with explicit cross-reference to baseline “łaska” doctrine at 21:6/22:17
γάμος τοῦ ἀρνίου’s δικαιώματα (“righteous deeds,” 19:8)	Polish “czyny” or “uczynki” alone risks a merit-earned reading; no single word natively conveys “grace-produced righteous acts, not self-achieved merit”	Fixed rendering “Gody Baranka” for the event, with mandatory doctrinal note at 19:8 specifically (not merely at the general term)

2.2 Crowded Semantic Neighborhoods (vocabulary exists but is contested/pre-loaded; fencing required)

Polish term	Competing association already present in Polish religious culture	Fencing requirement
Smok (dragon)	Smok Wawelski — beloved, outwitted, non-malevolent Kraków folk-hero/civic mascot	Mandatory “Smok = starodawny wąż, diabeł, Szatan” (12:9) restatement at every occurrence (12:3-17; 13:2,4,11; 20:2)
oblubienica (bride)	“Oblubienica Ducha Świętego” — specific Marian devotional title	Mandatory corporate-ecclesial clarifying note at every occurrence (19:7-9; 21:2,9; 22:17)
świadek/świadectwo (witness)	“męczennik” — canonized/venerated martyr category with exceptional cultural weight	Mandatory note that faithful witness (μάρτυς) is the broader calling of all believers, not restricted to canonized martyrs
powołanie/powołany (calling)	Priesthood/religious-life vocation (“powołanie kapłańskie/zakonne”) — baseline Critical caution, reinforced by “królestwo i kapłani” (1:6; 5:10) and “powołani, wybrani i wierni” (17:14)	Explicit universal-believer context at every occurrence; never allow implicit narrowing to clergy/religious life
gwiazda poranna (morning star)	Vulgate “Lucifer” (Isaiah 14:12) — historically associated with Satan’s pride in some hymnody/literature	Explicit contrastive note distinguishing Christ’s rightful self-designation (22:16) from the unrelated title every time
odkupić (purchased/ransomed)	Indulgence-era “purchased” religious benefit, especially resonant given Reformation-era controversy in a historically Catholic nation	Explicit note: Christ’s own costly, gracious, once-for-all act, never a human merit-transaction (5:9)
Armagedon	Jehovah’s Witness end-times messaging (Świadkowie Jehowy publishing/door-to-door presence); secular dilution as generic “catastrophe” synonym	State Revelation’s own narrow symbolic meaning explicitly; do not assume shared neutral background knowledge
sto czterdzieści cztery tysiące / wielki tłum (144,000 / great multitude)	Jehovah’s Witness two-class salvation doctrine (anointed heavenly class vs. earthly-paradise class)	Explicit contrastive teaching: one redeemed people viewed from two symbolic angles (completeness / innumerability), not two destinies
Michał (Michael)	Jehovah’s Witness identification of Michael with the pre-incarnate Christ	Explicit statement that Michael is a created angelic being, distinct from Christ (12:7)
Bestia (beast)	Poland’s lived 20th-century totalitarian memory (Nazi occupation, communist rule)	Teach as a recurring transhistorical pattern; explicitly warn against permanent identification with any single past regime
letni (lukewarm)	Already a common Polish idiom (“letnia wiara”) for tepid religiosity generally	Ensure retained rebuke-specificity (self-satisfied complacency, 3:16), not diluted into a vague synonym for “average”
tron (throne)	Earthly ecclesiastical (“tron biskupi”) or royal usage	Pair with context distinguishing unique divine/messianic authority from any earthly office every time it could be misread as generic
godzien (worthy)	Merit-based Polish connotation (“zasłużył sobie”)	Ground worship explicitly in God’s/the Lamb’s own being and finished work, not achievement
wielka nierządnica / Babilon (great prostitute/Babylon)	Recurring popular temptation (in many cultures, including historically in Poland) to identify with a specific present-day nation or power	Explicit warning against modern national identification at every occurrence
synagoga szatana (synagogue of Satan)	Poland’s complex Jewish-Christian history; antisemitic misapplication risk	Mandatory historical-contextual framing: describes a specific first-century local conflict, never a statement about Jewish people as such

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3. Transliteration vs. Paraphrase Decisions

Term	Decision	Rationale
Armagedon	Transliterate (standardized Polish Bible spelling)	Established across Polish Bible traditions; paraphrasing would strip the term of its (already problematic) recognizability, which the curriculum must address head-on rather than avoid
Alfa i Omega	Transliterate (Greek letter names)	Already fully naturalized in Polish liturgical and devotional usage; paraphrase would weaken the fixed-formula consistency requirement across 1:8/21:6/22:13
Gog i Magog	Transliterate (proper names)	No meaningful Polish equivalent exists; proper nouns retain source form per standard translation convention
Amen / Alleluja	Transliterate	Already established, low-risk, per baseline
Abba	Transliterate, paired with “Ojcze”	Per baseline precedent (Romans 8:15); not itself present in Revelation but the convention must remain available for any liturgical cross-reference material
666 (number)	Retain as Arabic numeral; do not spell out differently across chapters	Numeral consistency avoids introducing spelling variants (“sześćset sześćdziesiąt sześć” vs. digit-by-digit “sześć sześć sześć,” a documented minority reading tradition) that could create unnecessary interpretive confusion
Baranek (Lamb)	Paraphrase/lexical calque, not transliteration	A native Polish word already carries the necessary sacrificial-liturgical resonance (Agnus Dei); transliterating a Greek form would be unnatural and unnecessary
Bestia (Beast)	Paraphrase (established loanword-calque)	“Bestia” functions as a naturalized Polish word, not a transliteration in the technical sense; retained because it preserves the text’s own generic, non-specific symbolic force better than a native alternative like “zwierzę,” which would lose the menacing register
znamię Bestii / 666	Paraphrase (compound descriptive phrase)	No single Polish word carries “mark of total allegiance”; the compound phrase is necessary and already registry-fixed
Apokalipsa / Objawienie (book title)	State both explicitly, transliteration of Greek root for the Catholic form, calque for the Protestant form	Neither can be silently chosen without alienating half the target audience; both must appear in all front matter, parallel to the baseline’s “gospel” naming note
Ten, który jest, i który był, i który przychodzi	Paraphrase (fixed formula, not transliteration)	The Exodus 3:14 echo requires natural Polish phrasing plus an explicit footnote, since transliterating the Greek participial construction is not linguistically possible in Polish
Michał, Dawid, Izrael	Established Polish Bible proper-name forms (not transliteration from Greek, but standard target-language onomastic convention)	Per baseline transliteration/proper-name standards; retain forms already fixed in Polish Bible tradition
Wormwood (Piołun)	Translate the meaning (Polish plant name), not transliterate the Greek “Apsinthos”	Standard Polish Bible convention already translates this as a common noun with real botanical referent; transliteration would obscure the judgment-wordplay entirely

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4. Ranked List of Highest-Risk Ambiguities

Ranked by combined severity of doctrinal distortion potential and likelihood of audience exposure to the competing frame, for this letter specifically (not a restatement of the baseline’s Romans rankings).

1. 144,000 / great multitude — Jehovah’s Witness two-class salvation doctrine (Critical). Highest rank: an entire alternate soteriology is actively, currently distributed door-to-door in Polish with its own Bible translation. Silence invites direct doctrinal confusion.
2. Armageddon — Jehovah’s Witness eschatological chronology + secular dilution (Critical). Same source community, compounded by a second, unrelated dilution (generic “catastrophe” usage) that can produce either over- or under-interpretation.
3. Oblubienica (Bride) — Marian devotional-title collision (Critical). “Oblubienica Ducha Świętego” is a specific, catechetically taught Marian title; without fencing, the entire Church-as-Bride doctrine risks silent redirection toward Mary.
4. Great white throne / judged according to works vs. forensic justification (Critical). Sits at the book’s climax; a merit-cooperation misreading here would retroactively undermine the whole curriculum’s soteriology, not merely a single passage.
5. Świadek/świadectwo vs. męczennik — witness vs. canonized martyr (Critical). Affects a doctrine (Perseverance and Faithful Witness) invoked continuously across the entire book (occurs in at least ten distinct passages), so the cumulative risk of narrowing is unusually high.
6. Smok (Dragon) — Wawel folklore collision (Critical/High). A beloved national children’s-folklore figure is diametrically opposed in affect to the text’s intent; repeated occurrences (six+ passages) compound the risk if the fencing note is ever dropped.
7. Michael — archangel/Christ-identification (High). Narrower in scope (single passage, 12:7) than items above, but doctrinally severe (Christology) if mishandled, given a recognizable minority religious community teaching the opposite.
8. Gwiazda poranna — morning star / Lucifer overlap (Medium-High). Lower likelihood of audience confusion than JW-linked items, but the two occurrences (5:5; 22:16) sit at theologically dense Christological moments.
9. Odkupić — purchase/ransom vs. indulgence-adjacent transaction (High). Reformation-era resonance in a historically Catholic nation; risk is subtle (a transactional feel, not an explicit doctrine) and therefore easy to overlook in review.
10. Bestia and totalitarian memory (High). Emotionally powerful and pedagogically double-edged; risk is under-teaching the symbol’s transhistorical scope rather than mis-defining a term outright.
11. καινός vs νέος flattening in “new heaven and new earth” (High). Purely structural/morphological gap with no cultural collision, but affects the doctrine that gives this curriculum’s core passage (21:1-8) its name.
12. Thousand years / millennium — interpretive diversity plus JW chronology (High). Requires holding two tasks simultaneously (interpretive humility among mainstream views; firm rejection of the JW 1914 scheme), which is harder to execute consistently than a single clear ruling.
13. Powołanie — universal calling vs. priesthood/religious-life default, reinforced in Revelation by “królestwo i kapłani” and “powołani, wybrani i wierni” (High). Baseline risk intensified by two additional convergence points not present in Romans.
14. Seven spirits — plurality-of-spirit-beings misreading (High). Low likelihood of deliberate theological error, but high likelihood of momentary reader confusion at first exposure (1:4) without the bracketed clarifier.
15. Abyss vs. lake of fire vs. colloquial “piekło” (Medium-High). Everyday religious Polish speech does not maintain this distinction, so even careful curriculum text can be undone by learners’ background assumptions if not repeatedly reinforced.
16. “Zwyciężać” and nationalist/resistance-memory overtones (High, but self-correcting). Uniquely, the text supplies its own explicit corrective definition (12:11); risk is chiefly the failure to actually cross-reference it every time, not an inherent lack of correction available.
17. Letni (lukewarm) idiom drift (Medium). Lower doctrinal stakes than items above, but a documented pattern of gradual meaning-softening in ordinary usage makes periodic re-anchoring necessary.
18. Godzien (worthy) merit-connotation seep (Medium). Subtle risk operating beneath conscious notice; unlikely to produce overt doctrinal error but can quietly reframe worship’s grounds.

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5. Full-Book Chapter Coverage Log (PRD Phase 1 Mandate)

Every chapter of Revelation is accounted for below. Chapters contributing new load-bearing terms or doctrine-critical vocabulary are cross-referenced to Sections 1–4 above and to 08_core_glossary.md; chapters reviewed with no new terms beyond what is already fixed are explicitly noted as such, never silently omitted.

Chapter	Coverage status
1	Load-bearing: σημαίνω/“signify” (hermeneutical key), Alpha and Omega, “the one who is/was/is to come,” seven spirits, Lamb-adjacent titles (firstborn from the dead, ruler of kings), “every eye will see him,” Lordship formula. See Secs. 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 4.
2	Load-bearing: overcomer/νικάω refrain begins, hidden manna/white stone, synagogue of Satan, tribulation, crown of life, lukewarm anticipation (Laodicea is ch. 3). See Secs. 1.3, 2.2, 4.
3	Load-bearing: lukewarm (χλιαρός), key of David/open door, “kingdom and priests” background (1:6 restated), overcomer refrain continues. See Secs. 1.1, 2.2.
4	Load-bearing: throne-room vision, “one seated on the throne,” four living creatures/twenty-four elders, trisagion (Holy, Holy, Holy), Almighty. See Secs. 1.2, 1.7.
5	Load-bearing: Lamb (central introduction), slain, worthy, Root and offspring of David, purchased/ransomed, kingdom and priests. See Secs. 1.7, 2.1, 2.2, 4.
6	Load-bearing: four horsemen (symbolic, not literal), seals opened, souls under the altar, wrath of the Lamb. See doctrine 1.4, 1.8.
7	Load-bearing: 144,000, great multitude (both Critical, Sec. 4 #1), washed robes in blood, wipe away every tear (first occurrence). Reviewed in full against Sec. 2.2 fencing requirement.
8	Load-bearing: seven trumpets begin, incense/prayers of the saints, Wormwood. See Sec. 1.9 background note on prayer-imagery reinforcing baseline intercession caution.
9	Load-bearing: abyss (first major occurrence — see Sec. 2.1 fencing vs. lake of fire), demonic imagery symbolic per ch.1 hermeneutic.
10	Load-bearing: little scroll, mystery of God, mixed sweetness/bitterness of prophetic calling. No new Critical/High terms beyond what registry already fixes; reviewed.
11	Load-bearing: two witnesses (μάρτυς-related, reinforces Sec. 2.2 świadek fencing), ark of the covenant, “kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord” (11:15, Sec. 1.1).
12	Load-bearing: woman clothed with the sun (Marian sensitivity, Sec. 2.2 note distinct from bride), dragon/Satan identification (Sec. 2.2 #1), Michael (Sec. 4 #7), “conquered by blood and testimony” (definitional verse for νικάω, Sec. 4 #16).
13	Load-bearing: Beast from sea and earth, mark of the beast/666, worship the beast (inversion of true worship). See Secs. 1.7, 1.8, 2.2.
14	Load-bearing: eternal gospel, 144,000 recap, harvest/winepress of wrath, “blessed are the dead who die in the Lord” (endurance doctrine reinforced). Reviewed; no new Critical terms beyond registry.
15	Load-bearing: song of Moses and the Lamb (worship doctrine reinforced), bowls of wrath introduced. Reviewed; no new Critical/High terms beyond established registry entries (Almighty, glory).
16	Load-bearing: Armageddon (Sec. 4 #2), bowl judgments (symbolic per ch.1 hermeneutic), “It is done” anticipation.
17	Load-bearing: great prostitute/Babylon (Sec. 2.2), “called, chosen, and faithful” convergence (Sec. 2.1 last row / Sec. 1.3), beast/kings symbolic system.
18	Load-bearing: fall of Babylon lament, continued great prostitute/Babylon imagery — reviewed against Sec. 2.2 national-identification warning; no additional new terms beyond ch. 17’s registry entries.
19	Load-bearing: marriage supper of the Lamb, bride (first major full occurrence, Sec. 2.2), King of kings and Lord of lords, angel refuses worship (Sec. 1.7 positive safeguard), great white throne anticipation.
20	Load-bearing: thousand years/millennium (Sec. 4 #12), first resurrection, Gog and Magog, great white throne/judged according to works (Sec. 4 #4), lake of fire/second death.
21	Core passage chapter (21:1-8). Load-bearing: new heaven and new earth (Sec. 1.5, 2.1 #1), New Jerusalem, “his people”/covenant formula, dwell/tabernacle (Sec. 2.1), wipe away every tear (second occurrence, consistency-checked against 7:17), “It is done,” “trustworthy and true,” son-covenant formula (21:7), vice list/faithless (21:8, Sec. “faithless” registry entry).
22	Load-bearing: tree of life/water of life (grace doctrine reinforced), no more curse, bright morning star (Sec. 2.2 #5), “I am coming soon” (Sec. 1.1), do-not-add-or-take-away canonical warning, closing grace benediction (22:21, consistency-checked against 1:4).

This document, together with 08_core_glossary.md, must be finalized before the doctrine risk registry and AI translation requirements documents are updated with Revelation-specific entries incrementing the baseline’s version numbers, per the enforcement protocol already established in 12_ai_translation_requirements.md.