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Linguistic Gap Analysis

Linguistic Gap Analysis

English → Russian | 1 Corinthians 1–16 | Phase 1, Step 8

Curriculum: 1 Corinthians 1–16 Core passage: 1 Corinthians 15:1–11 Baseline dependency: This analysis extends, and never contradicts, the Romans translation_memory.json and bible_term_registry.json. All Section A baseline terms in 08_core_glossary.md remain unconditionally binding. This document analyzes the gaps the Romans baseline does not cover: 1 Corinthians introduces sustained treatment of wisdom/foolishness rhetoric, church discipline, marriage/celibacy, idol meat and Christian liberty, the Lord’s Supper, spiritual gifts (with a specific enumerated list), love, worship order, and the fullest single-chapter resurrection argument in the New Testament (ch. 15).

Russia’s dominant risk axis (restated from baseline): East–West theological divergence (Orthodox sacramental/theosis categories vs. Reformation forensic and memorial categories) and post-Soviet secularization/flattening of religious register — not syncretism with a rival non-Christian religion. Every gap and fencing decision below is evaluated against that axis, plus two curriculum-specific axes that 1 Corinthians newly activates: (a) collision with specific, named Russian Orthodox devotional/historical categories (theosis, mysteries/sacraments, monastic celibacy, saints’ relics, toll-houses, anathema, Sophiology), and (b) collision with post-Soviet folk-occult and political categories (extrasensy, fate/karma, “мission” as suspect foreign activity).


1. Method

For each of the ten curriculum doctrines, this analysis:

  1. Inventories available Russian vocabulary (baseline-reused and newly proposed).
  2. Names the specific weakness(es) of each candidate term — semantic gap, crowded neighborhood, or false-friend risk.
  3. Recommends a fencing/framing strategy for Phase 2 teaching text (not a re-translation of the term itself, which is fixed in 08_core_glossary.md / the registry).
  4. Confirms full-book coverage: every chapter is logged in §5, including chapters contributing no new terms.

2. Doctrine Vocabulary Matrix

#Doctrine (curriculum)Available Russian term(s)WeaknessRecommended strategy
1The Resurrection of Christ and Believersвоскресение (baseline, Critical); начаток; тленный/нетленный; духовное тело/душевное тело; усопший; последний Адамвоскресение is doctrinally settled but liturgically over-familiar (Пасха-flattening, per baseline); тленный/нетленный collides with нетленные мощи (incorrupt relics); “spiritual body” risks a ghost/disembodied misreadingState explicitly in ch. 15 teaching text that Paul’s subject is a future, universal, bodily transformation, not present relic-preservation or post-mortem disembodiment; use Transfiguration iconography as a named positive analogy rather than a silent blend
2Christian Unity versus Factionalismразделения (High, NEW); распри (Medium, NEW); церковь (baseline, High)раскол is the “natural” Russian word for faction/split but is pre-loaded with the 17th-c. Old Believer Raskol and 1054 Great Schism — using it would overstate the rupture and import unrelated historical controversiesForbid раскол for ordinary congregational quarrels; reserve strictly for genuine comparative historical discussion; use разделения/распри consistently
3The Cross as Wisdom and Powerкрест/распятый (Medium, NEW); мудрость (Critical, NEW); юродство (High, NEW); сила Божия (baseline, Medium)мудрость risks upward drift to Премудрость (Sophiology); юродство risks conflation with the specific ascetic office of юродивый; крест risks flattening into devotional-symbol familiarity, losing 1st-c. shame/scandal forceNever use Премудрость outside a named comparative discussion of Russian Sophiology; explicitly distinguish Paul’s rhetorical “folly” from the historical practice of юродство Христа ради while drawing on its positive resonance; restore the cross’s scandal (1:23) with explicit framing, not assumed from the word
4Church Discipline and Holinessцерковь (baseline, High); святой/святые (baseline, High); храм Божий (High, NEW); предать сатане (High, NEW); блуд (Medium, NEW); огонь испытает (High, NEW)храм defaults to a building; предать сатане risks folk-superstition “curse” (проклятие) reading; огонь испытает risks assimilation to мытарства (toll-houses)Frame 3:16-17/6:19 explicitly as people, not architecture; frame ch. 5 discipline explicitly as restorative, not damning; frame ch. 3 fire explicitly as a single Christ-administered evaluation of a minister’s works, contrasted by name with мытарства
5Marriage and Singlenessбрак (Low, NEW); девственница/девственник (High, NEW); разлучаться/разводиться (Medium, NEW); призвание (High, baseline extension)девственница/девственник risks over-elevation given Orthodox monastic/Theotokos-Ever-Virgin prestige; призвание in the ch.7 life-situation sense risks collapse into судьба/предназначение as in the baseline’s other calling-sensesState Paul’s even-handed 7:7 framing explicitly wherever celibacy is discussed; never use судьба/предназначение for the “remain in your calling” instruction
6Christian Liberty and Idol Meatидоложертвенное (Medium, NEW); совесть (Medium, NEW); свобода (право) (High, NEW); свобода (High, NEW); соблазн/претыкание (Medium, NEW); идолослужение (Medium, NEW)ἐξουσία and ἐλευθερία both plausibly render as свобода, collapsing a distinction Paul maintains; Synodal’s власть for 8:9 skews to power-over-others; идоложертвенное has no live cultural referentUse свобода (право) strictly for personal right-to-act (ἐξουσία, esp. 8:9, 9:4-18) and plain свобода for status of being free (ἐλευθερία, 9:1,19); never власть; supply a contemporary functional-idol analogy in teaching text for идоложертвенное
7The Lord’s SupperВечеря Господня (Critical, NEW); тело и кровь (Господа) (Critical, NEW); воспоминание (High, NEW); недостойно (High, NEW); различать (Тело) (Medium, NEW); завет (baseline, Medium)The single sharpest East–West collision in the curriculum: Евхаристия/Причастие as Таинство (real presence, theosis) vs. a memorial reading; тело и кровь overlaps the literal liturgical distribution formula “Тело Христово”; недостойно risks a folk “curse” misreadingName Евхаристия/Причастие explicitly and state the real-presence-vs-memorial question directly rather than letting Вечеря Господня alone resolve it; disambiguate тело и кровь from both the Eucharistic-liturgical phrase and the ecclesial “body of Christ” metaphor every occurrence; frame недостойно as fatherly corrective discipline, paralleling (not equating with) Orthodox pre-Communion self-examination
8Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christдуховные дары (baseline, Medium); Тело Христово (High, NEW); член (Тела) (Medium, NEW); иные языки (Medium, NEW); различение духов (High, NEW)экстрасенсорные способности (forbidden per baseline) is an acute live risk given the enumerated gift-list (12:8-10); Тело Христово overlaps the literal Eucharistic phrase; член echoes Soviet “член партии” bureaucratic register; различение духов risks conflation with отчитка (Orthodox exorcistic rite)Disambiguate each specific gift from its folk-occult/psychiatric counterpart explicitly in ch. 12/14 teaching text; keep member-of-body language organic/vivid, not institutional; name Тело Христово’s ecclesial-vs-sacramental double sense explicitly (10:16-17; 12:27)
9Love as the Greater Wayлюбовь (Medium, NEW)любовь’s breadth is mostly an asset (cf. Dostoevsky’s деятельная любовь) but does not by itself disambiguate ἀγάπη from romantic ἔρωςLet ch. 13’s own active/behavioral definitions (patient, kind, not envious…) carry the disambiguation; do not add a technical qualifier that would sound foreign to natural Russian
10Order in Worshipпорядок/благопристойно (Medium, NEW); глава (High, NEW); покров/покрывать голову (High, NEW); церковь (baseline, High)чин and благочинно both collide with clerical-office/rank register (благочинный = deanery overseer); глава carries the same authority/gender interpretive stakes as English “head”; покров is a living Orthodox practice (платок), so risk runs both directions (over-literalizing vs. dismissing)Use порядок/благопристойно, never чин/благочинно; engage Paul’s own stated reasoning (11:3-16) explicitly rather than defaulting to either “timeless universal command” or “merely describes existing Orthodox practice”

3. Missing Vocabulary vs. Crowded Semantic Neighborhoods

3.1 Missing vocabulary (no adequate existing Russian term; requires coinage, compounding, or explanatory gloss)

ConceptGapResolution
ἔκτρωμα (15:8), Paul’s self-abasing “stillborn/untimely-born” self-designationSynodal изверг has drifted to mean “monster/brute” in modern usage; no single modern word carries the original self-abasing senseQuote Synodal изверг for Scripture-citation fidelity, but pair every teaching-text occurrence with an explanatory gloss: недоношенный / рождённый не в срок
σῶμα πνευματικόν, a genuinely physical but Spirit-transformed body (15:44)No existing Russian phrase captures “real body, yet no longer subject to decay/limitation” without leaning either toward “ghost” (призрак/дух) or toward ordinary телоUse духовное тело with mandatory explicit denial of immateriality; draw the Transfiguration/glorified-body analogy by name
βαπτιζόμενοι ὑπὲρ τῶν νεκρῶν (15:29), a disputed local Corinthian customNo Russian term exists because the practice itself has no post-apostolic continuity outside LDS theologyкрещение за мёртвых (literal) plus mandatory teaching-text disclaimer distinguishing Paul’s non-endorsing reference from LDS proxy-baptism doctrine
παρέδωκα/παρέλαβον as a matched technical pair evidencing a fixed pre-Pauline creedal formula (15:1,3)Ordinary передал/принял read as casual communication verbs; Russian has no dedicated “handed down authoritative tradition” verb pair outside Предание-language, which itself risks over-sacramentalizingUse передал/приняли but gloss explicitly in teaching text as technical rabbinic-style tradition-transmission language, distinct from casual telling, and distinct from (though related to) the Orthodox category of Предание
εἰδωλόθυτον, food ritually offered to an idol (8:1–10:33)No live referent in contemporary Russian food culture (unlike, e.g., some Asian mission contexts)идоложертвенное (Synodal, retained) plus mandatory contemporary-analogy bridge (e.g., participation in practices whose meaning is compromised, not the literal foodstuff)

3.2 Crowded semantic neighborhoods (existing Russian term already carries a strong competing sense that must be fenced off)

Russian termCompeting/dominant sense already occupying the termPaul’s sense hereFencing strategy
храмPhysical Orthodox church buildingThe gathered church (3:16-17) / the individual believer’s body (6:19-20)State explicitly, every occurrence, that no building is in view
ТаинствоSacrament (one of the seven Orthodox Mysteries, with real-presence/theosis significance)Paul’s μυστήριον = previously hidden, now-revealed truth (chs. 2, 4, 13, 14, 15)Use тайна throughout; never Таинство outside explicit sacramental discussion of the Supper itself
Тело ХристовоThe literal Eucharistic elements at Communion distributionThe ecclesial metaphor of the unified church (ch. 12)Name both senses and their genuine but non-identical connection (10:16-17) explicitly every time
ПремудростьRussian Sophiology (Solovyov/Florensky/Bulgakov; condemned 1935) — a quasi-hypostatic Divine WisdomPaul’s plain σοφία θεοῦ, the cross itself as God’s wisdom (chs. 1-3)Use plain мудрость; reserve Премудрость only for a named comparative-theology aside
расколThe 1054 Great Schism / the 17th-c. Old Believer RaskolOrdinary congregational factionalism (σχίσμα, chs. 1, 11, 12)Use разделения; never раскол for local church quarrels
нетленныйIncorrupt relics (нетленные мощи) of canonized saintsThe future resurrection body’s non-decaying nature (15:42,50,52-54)State explicitly that Paul describes a future universal transformation, not present-tense bodily preservation
мытарства (implicit competing frame for πῦρ δοκιμάσει)The staged post-mortem toll-house ordeal narrative (Life of St. Basil the New)A single Christ-administered evaluation of a minister’s works, with the minister’s own salvation secure regardless (3:13-15)Name мытарства explicitly and state the contrast, do not let readers import it silently
раб(a) historical serfdom/trafficking (negative); (b) “раб Божий,” the standard devotional self-designation of every believer (positive)Complete, willing ownership by Christ (6:20; 7:21-23; 9:19)Draw explicitly on sense (b); do not let (a) dominate unaddressed
экстрасенс / экстрасенсорные способностиPost-Soviet television psychics, folk healers, “energy sensing”Each specific enumerated spiritual gift (12:8-10), esp. healing, tongues, discernment of spiritsDisambiguate every specific gift explicitly; this is a baseline-level forbidden substitution, intensified by ch. 12’s enumerated list
отчиткаA specific Orthodox exorcistic-prayer riteδιάκρισις πνευμάτων, discernment of spirits as an ordinary congregational gift (12:10)State explicitly this is not a specialized clerical rite nor a paranormal ability
анафемаThe Russian Orthodox Church’s formal, historically famous public anathema pronouncements (1901 Tolstoy; annual Чин Православия)Paul’s brief closing epistolary warning-formula (16:22)Frame explicitly as Paul’s own brief closing formula, not an invoked ecclesiastical procedure
благочинный / чинA specific Orthodox clerical administrative office (deanery overseer) / bureaucratic-rank registerτάξις, ordinary orderly conduct in worship (14:33,40)Use порядок/благопристойно; never чин/благочинно
членSoviet “член партии” bureaucratic-institutional registerμέλος, an organic living part of Christ’s body (ch. 12)Keep the body-organism metaphor vivid; avoid institutional-membership framing
властьPower/authority over othersἐξουσία as personal right-to-act (8:9; 9:4-18)Use свобода (право), never власть, especially since Paul’s point in 8:9 is warning against the very over-reach власть would connote
бесFolk-superstitious домовые/бесовщина narrative registerδαιμόνιον in the “table of demons” contrast (10:20-21)Prefer демон in expository/teaching-text register; бес acceptable only within direct Scripture-quotation fidelity
проклятие (implicit competing frame)Folk-magical curseπαραδοῦναι τῷ σατανᾷ, restorative church discipline (5:5); ἀναξίως, careless Communion participation (11:27-30)State explicitly in both cases that the purpose is restoration, not condemnation/curse
судьба / предназначениеImpersonal fate / assigned destiny (strong Russian folk-literary fatalism)κλῆσις in its ch. 7 life-situation sense (7:17-24)Never substitute; use призвание and state the personal, relational, God-initiated sense explicitly, per the baseline pattern already established for the other three calling-senses

4. Transliteration vs. Paraphrase Decisions

TermDecisionRationale
Маран-афа (μαρὰν ἀθά)Transliterate + glossFollows the established Synodal/baseline pattern for untranslated Aramaic acclamations (parallel to Авва, Отче in Romans 8:15); transliteration preserves the liturgical/creedal weight of an inherited formula that predates Paul
Мессия / ХристосReuse baseline dual form exactlyAlready settled; no new decision required, but 15:3-4’s creedal use is flagged as the place to re-surface the title-bearing “Anointed One” sense
анафемаTransliterate (retain loanword), frame don’t paraphraseA paraphrase (e.g., “да будет отлучён”) would lose the recognized weight of the term while a bare transliteration without framing risks importing the Chin Pravoslaviya association; transliteration + explicit contextual framing is the correct combination, not paraphrase alone
Евхаристия / ПричастиеDo NOT use as the primary rendering of κυριακὸν δεῖπνον; name explicitly as a comparative/parallel term onlyUsing the Orthodox sacramental loanword as the primary translation would silently resolve the real-presence-vs-memorial question the curriculum must state explicitly; Вечеря Господня is the primary rendering, with Евхаристия/Причастие named for comparative clarity
ТаинствоDo NOT use for μυστήριονParaphrase with тайна instead; Таинство is a technical sacramental term that would over-sacramentalize ordinary occurrences (4:1; 14:2; 15:51)
ПремудростьReserve for explicit named comparative discussion only; use мудрость (plain paraphrase) as the default renderingTransliteration is not at issue here (both are native Russian), but the register choice functions like a transliteration decision: the elevated liturgical/technical form must be fenced exactly as a loanword would be
ἔκτρωμα → изверг (glossed)Retain Synodal word for Scripture-citation fidelity; add paraphrase gloss (недоношенный) in expository textNeither pure transliteration nor pure paraphrase alone suffices; a hybrid quote-plus-gloss approach is required because the Synodal word’s meaning has drifted
πνεῦμα ἅγιον / чарисматы (χαρίσματα)Continue baseline paraphrase (духовные дары); do not transliterate as “харизматы""Харизматы/харизматический” has acquired a specific denominational-movement connotation in contemporary Russian Protestant usage (charismatic movement) that would narrow Paul’s general term unhelpfully
γλῶσσαι → иные языкиParaphrase (standard Synodal), not transliterationNo transliteration option exists or would help; standard phrase already carries the necessary ambiguity (human vs. angelic/ecstatic speech, 13:1) that Paul himself may intend
ὤφθη → явилсяParaphrase, with explicit teaching-text qualifier (“телесно, воочию,” bodily, visibly)A bare paraphrase risks the “mystical apparition” (явление иконы/святого) reading; qualifier restores the eyewitness-historical sense
κοιμάομαι → усопший / почилParaphrase using the existing liturgical euphemismThis is a case where the “crowded” liturgical neighborhood is a net asset rather than a risk, since Orthodox funeral usage already anticipates resurrection; no forbidden-substitution flag needed, but teaching text should note the term does not entail “soul sleep” as a doctrinal claim

5. Ranked List of Highest-Risk Ambiguities in 1 Corinthians

Ranked by combined severity (doctrinal weight × likelihood of misreading × cultural/political sensitivity). All Critical and most High items require mandatory human theologian review per the baseline’s escalation rules; this ranking determines Phase 2 QA priority order.

  1. The Lord’s Supper / body and blood (11:17-34) — Critical. The sharpest single East–West collision in the letter: real-presence/theosis (Евхаристия as Таинство) vs. memorial/proclamation reading. Compounded by triple polysemy of “Тело Христово” (liturgical, historical-crucified, ecclesial-metaphorical).
  2. Washed, sanctified, justified triad (6:11) — Critical. Compresses three baseline Critical/High terms into one verse; highest density of forensic-vs-transformative doctrinal risk per word count in the letter.
  3. Wisdom of God (σοφία, chs. 1-3) — Critical. Sole risk of drifting into Russia’s own named, historically controversial Sophiology tradition (1935 condemnation) — a collision entirely internal to Russian theological history, unlike any Romans-baseline risk.
  4. Resurrection of the body — perishable/imperishable and spiritual/natural body (15:35-54) — High/Critical composite. Direct lexical overlap with нетленные мощи (incorrupt relics) risks converting Paul’s future-universal-transformation argument into a present-tense veneration category.
  5. Baptism for the dead (15:29) — High. Singularly exploited by LDS apologetics; requires explicit disclaiming footnote every occurrence to preempt a specific, documented sectarian misreading circulating in Russia via LDS missionary literature.
  6. Head covering and headship (11:2-16) — High. Uniquely live (not merely historical) collision: the платок practice is an ongoing, visible Russian Orthodox norm, so the text risks either over-literalizing into timeless universal command or being dismissed as redundant with existing practice, bypassing Paul’s actual argument (source/authority, propriety, angels, nature).
  7. Deliver to Satan / church discipline (5:1-13) — High. Folk-superstition “curse” (проклятие) misreading is a live post-Soviet risk; restorative intent must be foregrounded every occurrence.
  8. Discernment of spirits and the spiritual-gifts list generally (12:1-11; 14:1-40) — High. The enumerated gift list intensifies the baseline’s экстрасенсорные-способности caution into a chapter-length, term-by-term disambiguation task (healing, tongues, discernment specifically).
  9. Division/schism vocabulary (1:10-17; 11:18; 12:25) — High. Risk of accidental overstatement via раскол, importing the Old Believer Raskol/1054 Schism’s historical magnitude into ordinary congregational quarrels — a “false amplification” risk distinct from most baseline risks, which run toward understatement.
  10. Anathema (16:22) — High. Risk of importing the specific, historically loaded Chin Pravoslaviya/Tolstoy-anathematization procedure into what is a brief personal epistolary closing formula.
  11. Virgin/unmarried and the relative valuation of celibacy vs. marriage (ch. 7) — High. Risk of over-elevating celibacy given monastic and Theotokos-Ever-Virgin prestige, working against Paul’s own even-handed 7:7 framing.
  12. Right to act vs. freedom/status (ἐξουσία vs. ἐλευθερία, chs. 8-9) — High. Both plausibly collapse into the single Russian свобода; Synodal’s власть for 8:9 additionally risks an authority-over-others misreading precisely where Paul warns against self-assertive liberty.
  13. Refining fire at judgment (3:10-15) — High. Risk of assimilation to мытарства (toll-houses), converting a ministerial-works evaluation into a personal post-mortem ordeal narrative.
  14. Adoption/slave-of-Christ ownership language (6:19-20; 7:21-23; 9:19) — High. раб’s dual valence (negative historical servitude vs. positive devotional раб Божий) must be actively steered toward the positive sense.
  15. Resurrection appearance verb ὤφθη (15:5-8) — Medium/High. Risk of reading as mystical vision/icon-apparition (явление) rather than bodily, witnessed, historical appearance; the accompanying named-witness lists partially mitigate this but do not eliminate it.
  16. Temple of God, corporate and individual (3:16-17; 6:19) — High. Default building-reading of храм in ordinary usage requires explicit correction at both occurrences, which point in opposite directions (corporate church / individual body).
  17. Mystery (μυστήριον) across four distinct referents (chs. 2, 4, 13, 14, 15) — Medium. Requires consistent тайна (never Таинство) across genuinely different referents (apostolic ministry, tongues, love’s centrality, resurrection transformation) without readers assuming a single fixed technical meaning.
  18. Foolishness of the cross / holy fool resonance (1:18-25; 3:18-19) — High. Productive but risky overlap with юродство Христа ради; needs explicit distinction from the specific ascetic office even while drawing on its positive cultural resonance.
  19. Calling in its life-situation sense (7:17-24) — High. A fourth calling-sense beyond the three the Romans baseline already tracks; same судьба/предназначение forbidden-substitution risk applies with equal force.
  20. Mission/evangelism vocabulary reused from Romans (1:17; 9:16-23; 15:11) — Medium. Lower-ranked here only because the baseline already resolved the core term choice (миссия/благовестие, never пропаганда); residual risk is the letter’s unusually dense concentration of proclamation language in ch. 9 and 15:11, which increases the number of flagged segments without changing the underlying resolved risk.

6. Full-Book Chapter Coverage Log

Per the PRD Phase 1 full-book coverage mandate, every chapter of 1 Corinthians is logged below. Chapters contributing new load-bearing terms are cross-referenced to §2–§5 above; chapters with no new terminology are explicitly marked reviewed rather than silently omitted.

Ch.New terms / doctrine load contributedStatus
1Wisdom/foolishness of the cross; division/schism; strife; election (paradoxical choice of the lowly); gospel/cross preachingCovered — see §2 rows 2–3, §3.2 (раскол, Премудрость), §5 rank 3, 9, 18
2Wisdom of God continued; rulers of this age; natural/spiritual man; mystery (apostolic ministry sense); power of God vs. worldly clevernessCovered — see §2 row 3, §3.2 (Таинство), §5 rank 3, 17
3Cross/wisdom continued; temple of God (corporate); refining fire at judgment; steward (extends to ch. 4); milk/solid food metaphor (no new registry term — standard vocabulary, low risk)Covered — see §2 rows 3–4, §3.2 (храм, мытарства), §5 rank 13, 16
4Steward (οἰκονόμος); apostolic authority and suffering; no new Critical/High terms beyond those already loggedCovered — reviewed, no additional new-term entries required beyond steward (Medium, already logged under ch. 3/4 doctrine row)
5Sexual immorality; deliver to Satan (church discipline)Covered — see §2 row 4, §3.2 (проклятие), §5 rank 7
6Washed/sanctified/justified triad; bought with a price; slave of Christ; body as temple of God (individual sense); lawsuits among believers (no new registry term — standard legal vocabulary, Medium risk absorbed into church-unity framing, no separate entry needed)Covered — see §2 rows 4/6, §3.2 (храм, раб), §5 rank 2, 14, 16
7Marriage; virgin/unmarried; separation/divorce; calling (life-situation sense)Covered — see §2 row 5, §3.2 (судьба/предназначение), §5 rank 11, 19
8Food offered to idols; conscience; right to act (ἐξουσία); stumbling blockCovered — see §2 row 6, §3.2 (власть), §5 rank 12
9Freedom/status (ἐλευθερία); right to act continued; apostolic support argument; mission/evangelism languageCovered — see §2 row 6, §5 rank 12, 20
10Idolatry; table of the Lord/table of demons; food offered to idols continued; Israel “according to the flesh” (baseline term, low risk); fellowship extended to sacramental participation (10:16-17, cross-referenced to ch. 11)Covered — see §2 row 6, §3.2 (бес), §5 rank 1 (partial cross-reference)
11Head/headship; head covering; the Lord’s Supper; remembrance; body and blood; unworthily; discerning the body; covenant (new-covenant institution language)Covered — see §2 rows 7/10, §3.2 (Тело Христово, Евхаристия), §5 rank 1, 6
12Body of Christ; member of the body; spiritual gifts enumerated list; discernment of spirits; tongues (introduced)Covered — see §2 row 8, §3.2 (экстрасенс, отчитка, член), §5 rank 8
13Love (ἀγάπη) as the greater wayCovered — see §2 row 9, §5 (love ranked lower-risk by design; see rationale in row 9)
14Tongues continued; prophecy (baseline); order/properly in worship; church as assembly (baseline, reinforced)Covered — see §2 row 10, §3.2 (чин/благочинно), §5 rank 6 (headship cross-reference), 8 (tongues)
15Core passage. Resurrection (Christ’s and believers’); received/delivered tradition; died for our sins; according to the Scriptures; resurrection appearance (ὤφθη); ektroma; firstfruits; perishable/imperishable; spiritual/natural body; baptism for the dead; last Adam; kingdom handed to the Father (Son’s subjection, sonship doctrine)Covered — see §2 row 1, §3.1 (all five missing-vocabulary items), §5 ranks 3–5, 15, 19
16Anathema; Maranatha; collection; holy kissCovered — see §3.2 (анафема), §4 (Маран-афа), §5 rank 10

Coverage confirmation: All 16 chapters reviewed; no chapter silently omitted. Chapter 4’s and Chapter 13’s relatively lighter new-term load (steward; love) are explicitly noted as reviewed-with-minimal-new-risk rather than skipped, consistent with the “focused but never silently omitted” mandate.


7. Summary of Escalation-Priority Outputs for Phase 2

  • Mandatory human theologian review, every occurrence (Critical tier, per §5 ranks 1–3 plus baseline Critical terms reused throughout): Lord’s Supper / body and blood; washed-sanctified-justified triad; wisdom of God; salvation, grace, sanctification, justification, righteousness, resurrection, Jesus, God, Holy Spirit, Son of God, Lord, Messiah/Christ (all baseline-Critical, reused).
  • Mandatory human theologian review, flagged occurrences (High tier, §5 ranks 4–14): perishable/imperishable and spiritual body; baptism for the dead; head covering/headship; deliver to Satan; discernment of spirits and the gifts list; division/schism vocabulary; anathema; virgin/unmarried valuation; right-to-act vs. freedom; refining fire; slave-of-Christ ownership language.
  • Native speaker review (Medium tier, §5 ranks 15–20 and remaining Medium-tier terms in §2/§3): resurrection appearance; temple of God; mystery; foolishness of the cross; calling (life-situation sense); mission/evangelism density in chs. 9 and 15.
  • Automated review only (Low tier, unchanged from baseline pattern): marriage; collection; holy kiss; Maranatha; thanksgiving; fellowship; prophet/prophecy.

This document, together with 08_core_glossary.md and the updated bible_term_registry.json, must be loaded before Phase 2 segment translation of 1 Corinthians begins, per the load-and-enforcement procedure defined in 12_ai_translation_requirements.md.


This analysis supplements, and does not override, the Romans baseline Language Package. Where a term also appears in the Romans baseline, the baseline rendering is authoritative and unconditionally binding.

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