Core Glossary
Core Glossary — 1 Thessalonians (English → Portuguese)
This glossary catalogs every load-bearing theological term identified in 07_semantic_analysis.md, drawn from all five chapters of 1 Thessalonians. Terms already present in the baseline Romans translation_memory.json are marked (baseline — reused exactly) and MUST NOT be altered. New terms proposed for this curriculum are marked (NEW) and should be added to an updated translation memory prior to Phase 2.
Risk tiers follow the baseline’s definitions exactly (Critical / High / Medium / Low), per doctrine_risk_registry.json.
A. Baseline Terms Reused Exactly (from Romans Language Package)
| Term (English) | Portuguese | Risk | Doctrine | Chapters occurring | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| God | Deus | Critical | God | 1, 3, 5 | Reused verbatim. |
| Lord | Senhor | Critical | Lordship of Christ | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 | Reused verbatim; core to “Day of the Lord” and “Return of Christ.” |
| Father | Pai | Critical | Adoption/Fatherhood | 1, 3 | Reused verbatim. |
| Jesus | Jesus | Critical | Christology | 1–5 | Reused verbatim. |
| Holy Spirit | Espírito Santo | Critical | Sanctification | 1, 4, 5 | Reused verbatim; 5:19 “do not quench” extends this term’s doctrinal weight. |
| gospel | evangelho | High | Gospel | 1, 2, 3 | Reused verbatim. |
| grace | graça | High | Grace | 1, 5 | Reused verbatim. |
| faith | fé | High | Faith | 1, 3, 4, 5 | Reused verbatim. |
| salvation | salvação | Critical | Salvation | 5 | Reused verbatim; “helmet of the hope of salvation” (5:8). |
| sanctification | santificação | High | Sanctification | 4, 5 | Reused verbatim; 1 Thess 4:3 is a defining verse for this curriculum’s Sanctification doctrine. |
| saints | santos | Critical | Sainthood | 3 | Reused verbatim; requires explanatory note every occurrence (3:13, “with all his saints”). |
| church | igreja | Medium | Church as God’s People | 1 | Reused verbatim. |
| election | eleição | High | Effectual Calling | 1 | Reused verbatim. |
| called/calling | chamado | High | Divine Calling | 5 | Reused verbatim (5:24). |
| peace | paz | Medium | Peace with God | 1, 5 | Reused verbatim. |
| resurrection | ressurreição | Critical | Resurrection | 4 | Reused verbatim; NEVER “reencarnação.” Core passage term (4:14, 16). |
| prophecy | profecia | Low | Fulfillment of Prophecy / Scripture | 5 | Reused verbatim; existing psicografia-distinction note applies. |
| exhort | exortar | Low | Mutual Edification | 2, 4 | Reused as baseline default; see context-sensitive extension below (comfort sense). |
| kingdom of God | reino de Deus | Medium | Kingdom Mission | 2 | Reused verbatim (“kingdom and glory,” 2:12). |
| glory | glória | Medium | Deity of Christ / God | 2 | Reused verbatim. |
B. New Terms Introduced by 1 Thessalonians
| Term (English) | Greek / Transliteration | Portuguese rendering | Risk | Doctrine | Chapters | Alternatives rejected | Rationale / collision note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| hope | ἐλπίς / elpis | esperança | High/Critical | Hope in Grief | 1, 2, 4, 5 | ”otimismo genérico”; “esperança espírita fundamentada na reencarnação” | Confident expectation grounded in Christ’s resurrection and future return, not generic optimism or the Kardecist hope of continued spiritual evolution across future lives. Central term for the “Hope in Grief” doctrine; recommend Critical tier given its centrality to 4:13, the passage’s thesis verse. |
| the coming/return of Christ | παρουσία / parousia | vinda | Critical | The Return of Christ | 2, 3, 4, 5 | ”retorno simbólico/espiritual”; “manifestação da consciência crística” (theosophical/esoteric-adjacent framing) | The single most load-bearing NEW term in this curriculum. Must be taught as a literal, visible, personal, bodily future return of the same Jesus who died and rose — not an inward, allegorical, or purely spiritual “return,” and not compatible with any Kardecist reframing of Christ’s return as ongoing moral influence. |
| sleep (death euphemism) | κοιμάομαι / koimaomai | dormir / adormecer | Critical | Resurrection of Believers / Hope in Grief | 4 | ”desencarnar” (Kardecist standard term for death) | NEVER “desencarnar.” The biblical sleep metaphor points to bodily rest awaiting bodily resurrection; Kardecism’s parallel-sounding sleep/awakening imagery points to a spirit’s entry into an intermediate spirit-world stage prior to future reincarnation. These must be sharply distinguished in every occurrence (4:13, 14, 15). |
| died / death | ἀποθνήσκω / apothanein | morrer / morte | High | Resurrection of Believers | 4, 5 | ”desencarnar,” “passar para o plano espiritual” | Real, historical, singular death — Christ’s and, by pattern, the believer’s — not a Kardecist “transição” of an inherently undying spirit. |
| rise / raised | ἀνίστημι / anistēmi | ressuscitar / ressurgir | Critical | Resurrection of Believers | 4 | ”reencarnar” | Shares the baseline’s absolute prohibition: NEVER “reencarnar” or any reincarnation-adjacent verb. Bodily, historical, once-for-all rising. |
| caught up / rapture | ἁρπάζω / harpazō | arrebatados / arrebatamento | Critical | The Return of Christ / Day of the Lord | 4 | ”elevação espiritual gradual”; sensationalized pop-eschatology renderings detached from the text | Widely known term in Brazilian Evangelical/Pentecostal culture; risk is twofold — (1) importing speculative pop-eschatology (date-setting, dramatized fictional treatments) not present in the text, and (2) collision with Kardecist “desencarne” as a routine individual transition. This is a sudden, corporate, bodily, Christ-initiated event. |
| Day of the Lord | ἡμέρα κυρίου / hēmera kyriou | Dia do Senhor | Critical | The Day of the Lord | 5 | ”dia do juízo cármico” (karmic judgment framing) | OT prophetic technical term for God’s decisive personal intervention in judgment and salvation; must not be reframed through an impersonal karmic “lei de causa e efeito” as already flagged in the baseline’s “providence” entry. |
| wrath | ὀργή / orgē | ira | High | Day of the Lord | 1, 5 | ”consequência cármica impessoal” | God’s personal judicial anger against sin, not an impersonal cause-and-effect karmic mechanism. Believers are “not appointed to wrath” (5:9) — a personal, relational assurance, not a karmic exemption. |
| love (ἀγάπη) | ἀγάπη / agapē | amor | High | Sanctification / general ethics | 1, 5 | ”caridade cármica” (merit-generating charity) | Distinguish sharply from Kardecism’s central ethical virtue “caridade,” which functions as merit accumulated toward the spirit’s evolution across lifetimes. Christian ἀγάπη flows from grace already received. |
| holiness (state) | ἁγιωσύνη / hagiōsynē | santidade | High | Sanctification | 3 | ”pureza cármica,” “elevação vibracional” | Distinct in form from ἁγιασμός/santificação (the process); this is the resulting holy character/state God produces. Must avoid any gradualist, self-effort, multi-life framing common to both esoteric and Kardecist frameworks. |
| affliction / tribulation | θλῖψις / thlipsis | tribulação / aflição | High | Hope in Grief | 3 | ”provação cármica” | Distinguish from the Kardecist “provação,” suffering understood as karmic debt being worked off across incarnations. Paul frames affliction as an expected, non-punitive feature of gospel-shaped life. |
| sons/children of light | υἱοὶ φωτός / huioi phōtos | filhos da luz | High | Day of the Lord / Sanctification | 5 | ”seres de luz” (Spiritist/NDE-literature idiom) | Popular Brazilian Spiritist and near-death-experience literature uses “seres de luz” for evolved or discarnate spirits; the biblical phrase must be taught as moral-spiritual identity through union with Christ, not a stage of spiritual evolution. |
| spirit, soul, and body | πνεῦμα, ψυχή, σῶμα / pneuma, psychē, sōma | espírito, alma e corpo | Critical | Sanctification / Resurrection of Believers | 5 | Kardecist tripartite anthropology (corpo + perispírito + espírito) | Requires explicit distinguishing note: Paul’s tripartite language describes the whole person God will keep and ultimately raise bodily; it must not be read through the Kardecist doctrine of an intermediary “perispírito” that survives death independently of bodily resurrection and enables future reincarnation. |
| do not quench the Spirit | Πνεῦμα μὴ σβέννυτε / sbennymi | não apagueis o Espírito | High | Spiritual Gifts / Sanctification | 5 | framing as suppressing an impersonal “energia”/“força” | Ties to baseline’s existing High-risk spiritual_gifts entry; must be taught as the church not suppressing the personal Holy Spirit’s genuine work, not an impersonal quenchable force, and categorically distinct from Kardecist mediunidade or Candomblé/Umbanda incorporation. |
| word of the Lord | λόγος κυρίου / logos kyriou | palavra do Senhor | High | Inspiration of Scripture | 4 | equating with ongoing mediumistic “revelation” | Distinguish from Kardecist psicografia claims per existing baseline inspiration_of_scripture doctrine notes. |
| idols | εἴδωλα / eidōla | ídolos | Medium/High | Conversion / Universal Human Accountability | 1 | — | Live pastoral issue in Brazil given orixá/Catholic-saint syncretism already flagged in baseline’s “god” entry; requires contextual teaching, not merely historical/ancient framing. |
| died for us | ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν ἀποθανόντος / hyper hēmōn apothanontos | que morreu por nós | High | Atonement (adjacent) | 5 | softened “para nosso bem” without substitutionary force | Per baseline escalation rules, atonement/substitution-adjacent language triggers human theologian review. |
| comfort (context-sensitive extension of “exhort”) | παρακαλέω / parakaleō | consolar / confortar | High | Hope in Grief | 4 | flattening to generic “exortar” in grief contexts | In 4:18 and similar grief contexts, the dominant sense is pastoral comfort, not didactic exhortation. Baseline’s “exortar” rendering remains correct for general exhortation contexts (e.g., ch. 2), but 4:18 and 5:11 require the comfort sense to preserve pastoral tone. |
| joy | χαρά / chara | alegria | Medium | Hope in Grief | 1 | — | Standard term; low ambiguity, paired often with affliction/hope cluster. |
| always with the Lord | πάντοτε σὺν κυρίῳ / pantote syn kyriō | estaremos para sempre com o Senhor | High | Hope in Grief / Assurance | 4 | provisional or evolving-state renderings | Climactic promise of certainty and permanence; must not be softened into a provisional or gradually improving state as in Kardecist frameworks. |
| times and seasons | καιροὶ καὶ χρόνοι / kairoi kai chronoi | tempos e épocas | Medium | Day of the Lord | 5 | — | Popular Brazilian Evangelical culture is prone to date-setting speculation; render while reinforcing the text’s own point that timing is unknowable. |
| meeting (ἀπάντησις) | ἀπάντησις / apantēsis | encontro | Medium | The Return of Christ | 4 | — | Technical Hellenistic term for a formal welcoming delegation; brief cultural note recommended to preserve the royal/public connotation. |
| archangel / trumpet of God / shout of command | ἀρχάγγελος, σάλπιγξ θεοῦ, κέλευσμα | arcanjo / trombeta de Deus / voz de comando | Low | The Return of Christ | 4 | — | Standard, low-ambiguity imagery terms supporting the Critical parousia/resurrection cluster. |
| vessel (σκεῦος) | σκεῦος / skeuos | vaso | Medium | Sanctification | 4 | resolving the body/wife interpretive debate in translation | Genuine exegetical ambiguity, not doctrinal risk; retain the vessel metaphor per Almeida tradition. |
| sexual immorality | πορνεία / porneia | imoralidade sexual | Medium | Sanctification | 4 | — | Culturally sensitive but doctrinally low-ambiguity. |
| brotherly love | φιλαδελφία / philadelphia | amor fraternal | Low | Christian Fellowship | 4 | — | Standard term. |
| minister/servant (διάκονος) | διάκονος / diakonos | servo / cooperador | Low/Medium | Church / Ministry | 3 | — | Describes Timothy’s role; low ambiguity. |
| build up / edify | οἰκοδομέω / oikodomeō | edificar | Low | Mutual Edification | 5 | — | Standard term, ties to baseline’s existing Low-risk mutual_edification doctrine. |
| admonish | νουθετέω / noutheteō | admoestar | Low | Church Leadership | 5 | — | Standard term. |
| those who lead | προΐστημι / proistēmi | os que presidem/dirigem | Low/Medium | Church Leadership | 5 | — | Ecclesial oversight function; standard term. |
| holy kiss | φίλημα ἅγιον / philēma hagion | ósculo santo / beijo santo | Low | Christian Fellowship | 5 | — | Ancient greeting custom; cultural footnote recommended, not doctrinal risk. |
| Satan | Σατανᾶς / Satanas | Satanás | Low | Spiritual Conflict | 2, 3 | — | Standard, unambiguous across Brazilian Christian traditions. |
| blameless(ly) | ἄμεμπτος / amemptos | irrepreensível | Low/Medium | Sanctification | 2, 3 | — | Standard ethical term. |
C. Risk Summary for 1 Thessalonians New/Extended Terms
| Risk Tier | Count (new/extended terms) | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | 7 (hope*, parousia, sleep/death-euphemism, rise/resurrection-verb, rapture, Day of the Lord, spirit-soul-body) | Human theologian |
| High | 12 (love, holiness-state, affliction, sons of light, quench the Spirit, word of the Lord, died-for-us, comfort-extension, always with the Lord, wrath [reused-High], died/death, descend) | Human theologian |
| Medium | 9 (idols, joy, times and seasons, meeting, vessel, sexual immorality, those left behind, watchfulness/sobriety terms, minister) | Native speaker review |
| Low | remainder (archangel, trumpet, shout of command, brotherly love, edify, admonish, leaders, holy kiss, Satan, blameless, imitators) | Automated review |
* “Hope” (ἐλπίς) is tiered High/Critical: treated as Critical specifically at 1 Thessalonians 4:13, the thesis verse of the core passage and the anchor of the “Hope in Grief” doctrine, and High elsewhere in the letter.
D. Cross-Reference to Baseline Escalation Rules
Per 12_ai_translation_requirements.md, the following NEW terms from this curriculum must be added to the Critical-risk automatic human-theologian-review trigger list for Phase 2:
- παρουσία → vinda (The Return of Christ)
- ἁρπάζω → arrebatados/arrebatamento (the Rapture)
- ἡμέρα κυρίου → Dia do Senhor (Day of the Lord)
- κοιμάομαι (death-euphemism) → dormir/adormecer, NEVER “desencarnar”
- πνεῦμα, ψυχή, σῶμα → espírito, alma e corpo (tripartite anthropology)
- ἐλπίς at 1 Thessalonians 4:13 specifically → esperança
These join the existing baseline Critical list (Incarnation, Deity of Christ, Sonship of Christ, Resurrection, Lordship of Christ, Salvation, Messianic Promise, Saints, Election/Predestination, Atonement/Propitiation) for all Phase 2 processing of this curriculum.
Critical Risk Terms
Salvation
Approved rendering: salvação
Transliteration: sōtēria
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: evolução espiritual através de reencarnações sucessivas
Original: σωτηρία
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. NEVER conflated with Kardecist ‘evolução espiritual.’ Appears in the ‘helmet of the hope of salvation’ (5:8) and ‘obtaining salvation’ (5:9).
Saints
Approved rendering: santos
Transliteration: hagioi
Doctrine: Sainthood
Rejected alternatives: santos venerados e invocados como intercessores
Original: ἅγιοι
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. Requires an explanatory note every occurrence. 1 Thessalonians 3:13 (‘com todos os seus santos’) applies the word to every believer accompanying Christ at his coming, not exclusively canonized/venerated figures.
Resurrection
Approved rendering: ressurreição
Transliteration: anastasis
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ
Rejected alternatives: reencarnação
Original: ἀνάστασις / ἀνίστημι
Category: Eschatology
Inherited from Romans package. NEVER ‘reencarnação.’ The core passage (4:14, 16) uses the verb forms, tracked separately in Section B under ‘raised_from_death’; this noun entry anchors the doctrinal category.
God
Approved rendering: Deus
Transliteration: theos
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: θεός
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Thessalonians 1:9 contrasts turning to ‘o Deus vivo e verdadeiro’ from idols — a live pastoral issue given Candomblé/Umbanda orixá syncretism with Catholic saints.
Lord
Approved rendering: Senhor
Transliteration: kyrios
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: Senhor apenas em sentido devocional, sem reivindicação de senhorio total
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Governs the Critical ‘Dia do Senhor’ (5:2) and ‘vinda do Senhor’ (4:15) constructions throughout this curriculum.
Father
Approved rendering: Pai
Transliteration: patēr
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Original: πατήρ
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Appears in the epistolary greeting and prayers (1:1, 1:3, 3:11, 3:13).
Jesus
Approved rendering: Jesus
Transliteration: Iēsous
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Standard across all Portuguese Bible traditions; unchanged throughout 1 Thessalonians.
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: Espírito Santo
Transliteration: pneuma hagion
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: espíritos guias ou mentores espirituais (espiritismo), orixás e guias (Candomblé/Umbanda)
Original: Πνεῦμα Ἅγιον
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Thessalonians 5:19 (‘não apagueis o Espírito’) extends the existing Critical distinction from Kardecist espíritos guias and Candomblé/Umbanda orixás and incorporation practices.
Son Of God
Approved rendering: Filho de Deus
Transliteration: huios theou
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: filho de Deus no sentido genérico aplicado a todo crente
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Thessalonians 1:10 (‘esperar dos céus a seu Filho’) anchors the letter’s first occurrence of the Return of Christ doctrine in the unique, eternal Sonship of Christ, distinct from believers’ adoptive sonship.
Hope
Approved rendering: esperança
Transliteration: elpis
Doctrine: Hope in Grief
Rejected alternatives: otimismo genérico, esperança espírita fundamentada na reencarnação e na evolução espiritual
Original: ἐλπίς
Category: Hope in Grief
NEW term. Critical specifically at 1 Thessalonians 4:13, the thesis verse of the core passage; High elsewhere (1:3; 2:19; 5:8). Confident expectation grounded in Christ’s death, resurrection, and future return — not generic optimism, and sharply distinguished from Kardecist hope of continued spiritual evolution across lifetimes, a live, organized rival hope-claim in Brazil.
Return Of Christ Parousia
Approved rendering: vinda
Transliteration: parousia
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Rejected alternatives: retorno simbólico/espiritual, manifestação da consciência crística (leitura teosófica/esotérica)
Original: παρουσία
Category: Eschatology
NEW term, the single most load-bearing new term in this curriculum. Occurs at 2:19, 3:13, 4:15, 5:23. Must be taught as a literal, visible, personal, bodily future return, never as an inward or allegorical event or the ongoing moral influence of an evolving spirit.
Sleep Death Euphemism
Approved rendering: dormir / adormecer
Transliteration: koimaomai
Doctrine: Hope in Grief
Rejected alternatives: desencarnar (termo padrão espírita para a morte)
Original: κοιμάομαι
Category: Eschatology
NEW term. 1 Thessalonians 4:13-15. NEVER ‘desencarnar.’ The biblical sleep metaphor points to bodily rest awaiting bodily resurrection, not a spirit’s transitional sleep awaiting reincarnation. Requires a translator note at every occurrence.
Raised From Death
Approved rendering: ressuscitar / ressurgir
Transliteration: anistēmi / anestē
Doctrine: Resurrection of Believers
Rejected alternatives: reencarnar, renascer (leitura de nova era)
Original: ἀνίστημι (fut. mid.), ἀνέστη (aor.)
Category: Eschatology
NEW term, verb-form entry distinct from the noun ‘ressurreição.’ 1 Thessalonians 4:14, 4:16. NEVER ‘reencarnar.’ Use ‘ressuscitar’ as primary rendering; keep verb forms visibly parallel between Christ’s resurrection (4:14) and believers’ resurrection (4:16) to preserve Paul’s argument.
Caught Up Rapture
Approved rendering: arrebatados / arrebatamento
Transliteration: harpazō
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Rejected alternatives: elevação espiritual gradual, especulação escatológica popular de definição de datas
Original: ἁρπάζω
Category: Eschatology
NEW term. 1 Thessalonians 4:17. Widely known Brazilian Evangelical/Pentecostal term. Twofold risk: importing speculative pop-eschatology not present in the text, and collision with Kardecist ‘desencarne’ as a routine individual transition. This is a sudden, corporate, bodily, Christ-initiated event.
Day Of The Lord
Approved rendering: Dia do Senhor
Transliteration: hēmera kyriou
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Rejected alternatives: dia do juízo cármico (lei de causa e efeito)
Original: ἡμέρα κυρίου
Category: Eschatology
NEW term, core doctrinal term of this curriculum. 1 Thessalonians 5:2. Must not be reframed through the Kardecist impersonal ‘lei de causa e efeito’; God’s personal, purposive act.
Spirit Soul Body
Approved rendering: espírito, alma e corpo
Transliteration: pneuma kai psychē kai sōma
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: antropologia tripartite espírita (corpo + perispírito + espírito)
Original: πνεῦμα καὶ ψυχὴ καὶ σῶμα
Category: Sanctification
NEW term, carries the same collision weight as the baseline’s incarnation entry. 1 Thessalonians 5:23. Must be explicitly taught as the whole person God will keep and ultimately raise bodily, not the Kardecist body-perispírito-spirit schema enabling continued reincarnation. Do not collapse to a two-part ‘corpo e alma’ formula.
High Risk Terms
Gospel
Approved rendering: evangelho
Transliteration: euangelion
Doctrine: Gospel
Rejected alternatives: mensagem de evolução moral (Kardecist ethical-progress framing)
Original: εὐαγγέλιον
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Standard term shared by Catholic and Protestant Portuguese Bibles. Must be distinguished from Allan Kardec’s ‘O Evangelho Segundo o Espiritismo.’ In 1 Thessalonians occurs at 1:5, 2:2-9, 2:13 (‘não… palavra de homens, mas… a palavra de Deus’), and 3:2 — Paul’s founding proclamation to this church.
Grace
Approved rendering: graça
Transliteration: charis
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: mérito espiritual acumulado ao longo de vidas sucessivas
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Unmerited favor received by faith, distinguished from Kardecist merit accumulated across reincarnations. Occurs in the epistolary greeting (1:1) and closing benediction (5:28).
Faith
Approved rendering: fé
Transliteration: pistis
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: convicção espírita, fé genérica em forças espirituais
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package. Personal trust in Christ. Heads the ‘faith, love, hope’ triad (1:3; 5:8) and is the subject of Timothy’s mission report (3:2-10).
Sanctification
Approved rendering: santificação
Transliteration: hagiasmos
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: purificação cármica ao longo de reencarnações (leitura espírita)
Original: ἁγιασμός
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Thessalonians 4:3 (‘esta é a vontade de Deus, a vossa santificação’) is the defining verse for this curriculum’s Sanctification doctrine; 5:23 extends it to the whole person. Distinguish from the state-noun ‘santidade’ (ἁγιωσύνη, see Section B).
Election
Approved rendering: eleição
Transliteration: eklogē
Doctrine: Effectual Calling
Rejected alternatives: mérito conquistado ao longo de reencarnações
Original: ἐκλογή
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Thessalonians 1:4 (‘conhecendo… a vossa eleição’) grounds the church’s identity in God’s sovereign choice, not accumulated spiritual merit.
Calling
Approved rendering: chamado
Transliteration: klēsis
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Rejected alternatives: vocação (narrow sense of a call to priesthood or religious life)
Original: κλῆσις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Thessalonians 2:12 (‘chamou ao seu reino e glória’) and 5:24 (‘fiel é aquele que vos chama’). Do not narrow to ‘vocação.‘
Spiritual Gifts
Approved rendering: dons espirituais
Transliteration: charismata
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts
Rejected alternatives: mediunidade (dom mediúnico espírita), dons de incorporação (Candomblé/Umbanda)
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Thessalonians 5:19-21 (‘não apagueis o Espírito… não desprezeis as profecias’) extends this doctrine; must be tied to the Holy Spirit equipping the church, never to Kardecist mediunidade or Candomblé/Umbanda incorporation.
Death Of Christ And Believers
Approved rendering: morrer / morte
Transliteration: apothnēskō
Doctrine: Resurrection of Believers
Rejected alternatives: desencarnar, transição/passagem para o plano espiritual
Original: ἀποθνήσκω
Category: Eschatology
NEW term. 1 Thessalonians 4:14, 5:10. Real, historical, singular death, not a Kardecist ‘transição’ of an inherently undying spirit.
Wrath
Approved rendering: ira
Transliteration: orgē
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Rejected alternatives: consequência cármica impessoal
Original: ὀργή
Category: Eschatology
NEW term. 1 Thessalonians 1:10; 5:9 (‘não nos destinou para a ira’). God’s personal judicial anger against sin, not an impersonal karmic mechanism; believers’ exemption is a personal, relational assurance.
Love Agape
Approved rendering: amor
Transliteration: agapē
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: caridade cármica (mérito acumulado ao longo de vidas sucessivas), caridade (older Almeida-tradition rendering of agapē elsewhere, rejected here)
Original: ἀγάπη
Category: Sanctification
NEW term. 1 Thessalonians 1:3 (‘trabalho do amor’), 3:12, 4:9-10. Use ‘amor,’ never ‘caridade,’ throughout this curriculum, distinguishing from Kardecism’s central merit-generating ethical virtue.
Holiness State
Approved rendering: santidade
Transliteration: hagiōsynē
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: pureza cármica, elevação vibracional
Original: ἁγιωσύνη
Category: Sanctification
NEW term. 1 Thessalonians 3:13 (‘estabeleça os vossos corações irrepreensíveis em santidade’). Distinct in form from ‘santificação’ (the process); this is the resulting holy state God produces. Avoid any gradualist, self-effort, multi-life framing.
Affliction Tribulation
Approved rendering: tribulação / aflição
Transliteration: thlipsis
Doctrine: Suffering and Affliction in Gospel Life
Rejected alternatives: provação cármica (débito cármico pago ao longo de reencarnações)
Original: θλῖψις
Category: Hope in Grief
NEW term. 1 Thessalonians 1:6, 3:3-4, 3:7. Prefer ‘tribulação/aflição’ over ‘provação,’ the more heavily karmic-coded neighbor term in Brazilian Portuguese. An expected, non-punitive feature of gospel life, not karmic payment.
Sons Of Light
Approved rendering: filhos da luz
Transliteration: huioi phōtos
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Rejected alternatives: seres de luz (idioma espírita/de relatos de experiência de quase morte)
Original: υἱοὶ φωτός
Category: Eschatology
NEW term. 1 Thessalonians 5:5. Retain the biblical phrase exactly; requires a note distinguishing moral-spiritual identity through union with Christ from the popular Brazilian Spiritist/NDE-literature idiom for evolved or discarnate spirits.
Quench The Spirit
Approved rendering: não apagueis o Espírito
Transliteration: Pneuma mē sbennyte
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts
Rejected alternatives: supressão de uma energia ou força impessoal
Original: Πνεῦμα μὴ σβέννυτε
Category: Spiritual Gifts
NEW term. 1 Thessalonians 5:19. Ties to baseline’s High-risk spiritual_gifts doctrine: the church not suppressing the personal Holy Spirit’s work, categorically distinct from Kardecist mediunidade or Candomblé/Umbanda incorporation.
Word Of The Lord
Approved rendering: palavra do Senhor
Transliteration: logos kyriou
Doctrine: Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: revelação mediúnica contínua (psicografia)
Original: λόγος κυρίου
Category: Covenant
NEW term. 1 Thessalonians 4:15. Grounds the resurrection/rapture teaching in closed, authoritative apostolic revelation, in explicit contrast to Kardecist psicografia claims.
Idols
Approved rendering: ídolos
Transliteration: eidōla
Doctrine: Conversion from Idols to the Living God
Rejected alternatives: sincretismo de orixás com santos católicos tratado como equivalente inofensivo
Original: εἴδωλα
Category: Sin
NEW term. 1 Thessalonians 1:9. Live pastoral issue in Brazil given Candomblé/Umbanda orixá syncretism with Catholic saints, not an ancient abstraction.
Died For Us
Approved rendering: que morreu por nós
Transliteration: hyper hēmōn apothanontos
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: morreu para o nosso bem (sentido suavizado, sem força substitutiva)
Original: ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν ἀποθανόντος
Category: Salvation
NEW term. 1 Thessalonians 5:10. Christ’s substitutionary, representative death; per baseline escalation rules, atonement/substitution-adjacent language triggers human theologian review.
Comfort Pastoral
Approved rendering: consolar / confortar
Transliteration: parakaleō
Doctrine: Hope in Grief
Rejected alternatives: exortai-vos (sentido didático genérico que enfraquece o tom pastoral de consolo)
Original: παρακαλέω
Category: Hope in Grief
NEW context-sensitive entry, extends the baseline’s ‘exortar.’ Use at 1 Thessalonians 4:18 (‘consolai-vos uns aos outros’) and 5:11. In grief contexts the dominant sense is pastoral comfort, not didactic exhortation.
Descend
Approved rendering: descerá
Transliteration: katabainō
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Rejected alternatives: chegada simbólica ou aproximação espiritual não corporal
Original: καταβαίνω
Category: Eschatology
NEW term. 1 Thessalonians 4:16. Christ’s visible, bodily descent from heaven; reinforces the visible, bodily nature of the parousia.
Dead In Christ
Approved rendering: os mortos em Cristo
Transliteration: hoi nekroi en Christō
Doctrine: Resurrection of Believers
Rejected alternatives: espíritos falecidos em progresso moral independente (leitura espírita)
Original: οἱ νεκροὶ ἐν Χριστῷ
Category: Eschatology
NEW term. 1 Thessalonians 4:16. Believers who died in union with Christ, guaranteeing bodily resurrection, not a Kardecist framing of continued independent spirit progress.
Always With The Lord
Approved rendering: estaremos para sempre com o Senhor
Transliteration: pantote syn kyriō esometha
Doctrine: Hope in Grief
Rejected alternatives: estado provisório ou evolutivo (moldes espíritas de progresso contínuo)
Original: πάντοτε σὺν κυρίῳ ἐσόμεθα
Category: Hope in Grief
NEW term. 1 Thessalonians 4:17. Climactic promise of the core passage; permanence and certainty, never a provisional or evolving state. Use the full clause; do not compress to a single modifier.
Medium Risk Terms
Church
Approved rendering: igreja
Transliteration: ekklēsia
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Rejected alternatives: a Igreja (institutional-hierarchical sense)
Original: ἐκκλησία
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Thessalonians 1:1 addresses ‘a igreja dos tessalonicenses, em Deus Pai e no Senhor Jesus Cristo.‘
Called
Approved rendering: chamado
Transliteration: klētos
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Rejected alternatives: convocado (bureaucratic register)
Original: καλέω
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Context-sensitive; in 1 Thessalonians see 4:7 (‘chamou… à santificação, não à impureza’).
Peace
Approved rendering: paz
Transliteration: eirēnē
Doctrine: Peace with God
Rejected alternatives: tranquilidade emocional
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Appears in the greeting (1:1) and in ‘o próprio Deus da paz’ (5:23), sanctifying the whole person.
Kingdom Of God
Approved rendering: reino de Deus
Transliteration: basileia tou theou
Doctrine: Kingdom Mission
Original: βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Kingdom
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Thessalonians 2:12 pairs it with ‘glória’ as the goal of the believer’s calling.
Glory
Approved rendering: glória
Transliteration: doxa
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: δόξα
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Appears at 2:12 and in the ‘coroa de exultação’ imagery of 2:19-20 tied to Christ’s parousia.
Holy
Approved rendering: santo
Transliteration: hagios
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: puro em sentido ritual
Inherited from Romans package. Underlies ‘Espírito Santo,’ ‘ósculo santo’ (5:26), and the sanctification vocabulary cluster (santidade/santificação) throughout chapters 3-5.
Joy
Approved rendering: alegria
Transliteration: chara
Doctrine: Hope in Grief
Original: χαρά
Category: Hope in Grief
NEW term. 1 Thessalonians 1:6. Gladness received with the word despite affliction; standard term, low ambiguity.
Times And Seasons
Approved rendering: tempos e épocas
Transliteration: kairoi kai chronoi
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Rejected alternatives: especulação de datas ao estilo de conferências profético-populares
Original: καιροὶ καὶ χρόνοι
Category: Eschatology
NEW term. 1 Thessalonians 5:1. Render while reinforcing the text’s own point that the timing is unknowable, resisting Brazilian Evangelical date-setting culture.
Meeting Apantesis
Approved rendering: encontro
Transliteration: apantēsis
Doctrine: The Return of Christ
Original: ἀπάντησις
Category: Eschatology
NEW term. 1 Thessalonians 4:17. Technical Hellenistic term for a delegation escorting a dignitary; a brief cultural note is recommended to preserve the royal, public welcoming-procession connotation.
Vessel Skeuos
Approved rendering: vaso
Transliteration: skeuos
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: resolver antecipadamente o debate exegético entre corpo próprio e esposa
Original: σκεῦος
Category: Sanctification
NEW term. 1 Thessalonians 4:4. Retain the vessel metaphor per Almeida tradition rather than resolving the body-vs-wife interpretive debate in translation. Genuine exegetical ambiguity, not doctrinal risk.
Sexual Immorality
Approved rendering: imoralidade sexual
Transliteration: porneia
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: πορνεία
Category: Sanctification
NEW term. 1 Thessalonians 4:3. Culturally sensitive but doctrinally low-ambiguity; pair with sanctification teaching.
Low Risk Terms
Prophecy
Approved rendering: profecia
Transliteration: prophēteia
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Rejected alternatives: psicografia (spirit messages transcribed through mediums)
Original: προφητεία
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Thessalonians 5:20 (‘não desprezeis as profecias’) retains the existing psicografia-distinction note.
Exhort
Approved rendering: exortar
Transliteration: parakaleō
Doctrine: Mutual Edification
Original: παρακαλέω
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package. Use for general exhortation contexts (2:11-12; 4:1; 5:14). See Section B ‘comfort_pastoral’ for the required context-sensitive extension at 4:18 and 5:11 (pastoral comfort in grief, not didactic exhortation).
Thanksgiving
Approved rendering: ação de graças
Transliteration: eucharistia
Doctrine: Thanksgiving
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 1:2, 2:13, 5:18 (‘em tudo dai graças’). Standard term, minimal risk.
Brotherly Love
Approved rendering: amor fraternal
Transliteration: philadelphia
Doctrine: Christian Fellowship
Original: φιλαδελφία
Category: Christian Fellowship
NEW term. 1 Thessalonians 4:9. Standard term, minimal risk.
Minister Servant
Approved rendering: servo / cooperador
Transliteration: diakonos
Doctrine: Church
Original: διάκονος
Category: Church
NEW term. 1 Thessalonians 3:2, describing Timothy’s role. Low ambiguity.
Edify
Approved rendering: edificar
Transliteration: oikodomeō
Doctrine: Mutual Edification
Original: οἰκοδομέω
Category: Mutual Edification
NEW term. 1 Thessalonians 5:11. Ties to baseline’s existing Low-risk mutual_edification doctrine.
Admonish
Approved rendering: admoestar
Transliteration: noutheteō
Doctrine: Church Leadership
Original: νουθετέω
Category: Church
NEW term. 1 Thessalonians 5:14. Standard term, minimal risk.
Church Leaders
Approved rendering: os que presidem / dirigem
Transliteration: proistamenoi
Doctrine: Church Leadership
Original: προϊστάμενοι
Category: Church
NEW term. 1 Thessalonians 5:12. Ecclesial oversight function, standard term.
Holy Kiss
Approved rendering: ósculo santo / beijo santo
Transliteration: philēma hagion
Doctrine: Christian Fellowship
Rejected alternatives: substituir por saudação moderna equivalente (ex.: aperto de mãos)
Original: φίλημα ἅγιον
Category: Christian Fellowship
NEW term. 1 Thessalonians 5:26. Retain the literal image per Almeida tradition; brief cultural footnote recommended rather than substituting a modern greeting.
Satan
Approved rendering: Satanás
Transliteration: Satanas
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare
Original: Σατανᾶς
Category: Spiritual Conflict
NEW term. 1 Thessalonians 2:18, 3:5. Standard, unambiguous across Brazilian Christian traditions.
Blameless
Approved rendering: irrepreensível
Transliteration: amemptos / amemptōs
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: ἄμεμπτος / ἀμέμπτως
Category: Sanctification
NEW term. 1 Thessalonians 2:10, 3:13, 5:23. Standard ethical term tied to the sanctification doctrine’s practical dimension; conduct without valid accusation, not ritual purity.
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