Linguistic Gap Analysis — Revelation (Full Book) for Russian

1. Purpose and Scope

This document executes PRD Phase 1 Step 8 for the Revelation curriculum in Russian. It does not re-derive the term-by-term glossary already produced in 08_core_glossary.md and bible_term_registry.json; instead it analyzes the shape of the gap between source-text meaning and Russian lexical resources — where Russian has no adequate term (missing vocabulary), where Russian has too many competing associations attached to one term (crowded semantic neighborhoods), where transliteration is safer than translation, and which of this letter’s ambiguities carry the highest combined doctrinal/cultural/legal risk.

Full-book coverage note: this analysis spans Revelation 1–22 in its entirety. Chapters that introduce no new linguistic gap beyond what is already tabled in the core glossary are explicitly confirmed as reviewed in §7, not silently omitted.

This analysis inherits, and never contradicts, all term decisions already recorded in the baseline Romans Language Package and in 08_core_glossary.md / bible_term_registry.json for Revelation. Where this document identifies a risk, the resolution strategy is consistent with — and in several cases directly extends — the risk-tier conventions already established.

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2. Doctrine Vocabulary Matrix

For each of the nine curriculum doctrines: the available Russian term(s), their specific weaknesses for this doctrine, and the recommended translation/exposition strategy.

Doctrine	Available Russian Term(s)	Weaknesses	Recommended Strategy
The Return and Reign of Christ	гряду скоро (I am coming soon); Царство Господа нашего; будут царствовать; Который есть и был и грядёт	(1) “Грядёт” is archaic-liturgical register, risking a purely devotional/poetic reading rather than a historically anchored future event; (2) “Царство” carries Russian imperial/tsardom and Soviet state-power resonance (per baseline kingdom_of_god note), risking a this-worldly political misread.	Preserve archaic Synodal register for the refrain (гряду скоро; Гряди, Господи Иисусе!) to retain solemnity and cross-document consistency, but pair every occurrence in expository text with explicit anchoring language (“личное, буквальное возвращение Христа” — a personal, literal return) so the term is not absorbed into vague devotional expectancy. Explicitly distinguish God’s/Christ’s reign from any earthly “Третий Рим” or tsardom nostalgia, extending the baseline’s kingdom_of_god caution.
The Sovereignty of God over History	Вседержитель; Который есть и был и грядёт; Сидящий на престоле; промысел Божий (baseline)	Вседержитель is a strong asset but risks being heard as a static iconographic title (Спас Вседержитель) rather than active governance over the specific historical crises (persecution, empire, chaos) the book addresses.	Explicitly tie Вседержитель and “Сидящий на престоле” in exposition to Revelation’s own argument: God actively governs the very persecution and geopolitical upheaval the readers face, not merely a devotional epithet. Reuse baseline промысел Божий where the discussion turns to God’s providential care specifically (avoiding судьба/карма per baseline).
Perseverance and Faithful Witness under Persecution	свидетель / свидетельство; побеждающий; скорбь / великая скорбь	CRITICAL: свидетель collides with the legally banned “Свидетели Иеговы” organization in the Russian Federation (2017 extremist designation); скорбь risks folk-flattening into ordinary sadness (parallels baseline грех flattening).	свидетель/свидетельство must never be used without an explicit disambiguating clause on first use per lesson (“не в смысле названия запрещённой организации, а в библейском смысле — открытое исповедание верности Христу, иногда до смерти”). Anchor скорбь to concrete persecution scenarios (imprisonment, economic exclusion, martyrdom), not generalized suffering. Route every occurrence to human theologian AND legal/cultural review.
Judgment of the Wicked and Vindication of the Saints	зверь; начертание; печать; озеро огненное; смерть вторая; ад	зверь’s colloquial positive slang sense (“он зверь!”) risks accidental register inversion; начертание/печать must never lexically bleed into each other; ад flattens the book’s two-stage judgment (Hades vs. lake of fire) into one generic “hell.”	Maintain strict lexical fencing (see §4). Use consistent exposition to reinforce зверь’s sinister register at every occurrence. Explicitly teach the Hades/lake-of-fire two-stage distinction rather than assuming Russian “ад” alone conveys it.
The New Heaven and New Earth	новый (for καινός); Новый Иерусалим; моря уже нет; даром	Russian новый does not lexically distinguish qualitative renewal (kainos) from mere temporal sequence (neos); Новый Иерусалим collides with the real Ново-Иерусалимский монастырь near Moscow; “моря уже нет” invites over-literal hydrological questions.	State explicitly and repeatedly that “новый” here means “принципиально обновлённый,” not “следующий по порядку.” Explicitly distinguish John’s descending eschatological city from the historical monastery on first mention of Новый Иерусалим in any lesson. Flag “моря уже нет” as apocalyptic symbol (removal of chaos/beast-source), not literal geography.
The Church as Bride of Christ	невеста; праведность святых; брак Агнца	CRITICAL: невеста Христова is the established Orthodox title for a nun at monastic tonsure, not the corporate church; брак collides with the sacramental status of Таинство Брака.	Every use of невеста applied to the church must carry an explicit corporate-inclusion clause (“вся искупленная Церковь целиком, а не отдельные монашествующие”). Frame брак Агнца as symbolic covenant consummation, not a literal future wedding rite modeled on human sacramental marriage.
Worship of the Lamb	Агнец; поклоняться; достоин; Свят, Свят, Свят	Агнец is doubly embedded in Orthodox Eucharistic vocabulary (the “Агнец” portion of the proskomedia) and Protestant hymnody, risking narrow sacramental-object reading; поклоняться is used identically of true and false worship in the Greek, so the Russian verb alone cannot distinguish legitimacy.	Pair Агнец consistently with Revelation’s triumphant/judicial register (worthy, wrath of the Lamb, throne of the Lamb) so it is not domesticated to the Eucharistic host alone. For поклоняться, always make the object of worship explicit in surrounding text (Бог/Агнец vs. зверь/образ) since the verb itself cannot carry that distinction.
Symbolic and Apocalyptic Interpretation	откровение; знамение; тайна; показал / дал знать знамениями	откровение risks default association with the book-title alone rather than a live interpretive method; знамение carries folk-omen/astrological resonance; секулярное “апокалипсис” primes doomsday pop-culture expectation.	Establish the book’s own interpretive key explicitly at 1:1 (откровение = disclosure BY Christ, conveyed through symbols, not a doomsday screenplay) and reuse this framing as a recurring exposition anchor at every major vision (dragon, beast, bowls, numbers) so readers consistently apply symbolic rather than flat-literal or divinatory reading.
Assurance of God’s Final Victory over Evil	побеждающий; книга жизни; Совершилось; Аллилуия	побеждающий risks being heard as autonomous moral heroism rather than Christ-empowered perseverance; книга жизни risks fear-inducing uncertainty if not framed pastorally.	Always tie побеждающий back to its own explicit definition at 12:11 (“по крови Агнца и по слову свидетельства своего”). Present книга жизни as assurance for believers already in Christ, consistent with the baseline’s assurance_of_salvation doctrine note, not as a suspense device.

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3. Missing Vocabulary (True Lexical Gaps)

These are cases where Russian has no single existing term carrying the precise semantic content of the source, requiring either a compound phrase, an explicit gloss, or borrowed/created terminology — as distinct from §4’s problem of terms that exist but are overloaded.

Gap	Description	Resolution
Qualitative vs. temporal “new” (καινός vs. νέος)	Russian новый collapses both Greek words into one; there is no native lexical marker for “fundamentally renewed in kind” vs. “next in the sequence.”	Compound explanatory phrase required at each occurrence: “новый (в смысле принципиально иного, обновлённого, а не просредующего по счёту).” Cannot be solved by a single word; must be handled in exposition every time, not solved once in the glossary.
The Alpha/Omega “A-to-Z” idiom	Cyrillic’s own first/last letters (А…Я) are not the ones being invoked, so the “totality” logic embedded in the Greek idiom does not transfer automatically.	Retain transliteration (Альфа и Омега) plus a one-time explanatory gloss connecting it to the Greek alphabet’s own edges, not the Cyrillic alphabet.
Diadem vs. victor’s wreath (διάδημα vs. στέφανος)	Russian has only one common “crown” word (корона) that would collapse Revelation’s deliberate two-term contrast between usurped/true royal diadems and the martyrs’ victory wreaths.	Two separate established loanword/native terms must be fenced apart: диадима (royal ruling crown) vs. венец (victor’s wreath) — see §4 for enforcement, since this is as much a fencing problem as a gap.
σημαίνω’s “communicated through signs” nuance (1:1)	The Synodal “показал” (showed) is a plain verb of visual display; it has no built-in marker for “communicated in symbolic/encoded form” as distinct from flat, literal showing.	Compound gloss required: “показал (через знамения / в символической форме)” on first use, establishing the book’s own stated interpretive method rather than relying on “показал” alone to carry it.
λατρεύω’s cultic/priestly register (22:3)	служить (generic “serve”) lacks a dedicated register-marked equivalent for specifically liturgical/priestly worship-service as opposed to ordinary service or labor.	Retain служить as the base verb but supplement with exposition connecting it explicitly to the book’s sustained temple/priestly worship imagery (chs. 4-5, 7, 15, 19), rather than seeking a nonexistent single-word equivalent.
A neutral, non-partisan Russian term for “chiliasm”/millennial position	Russian theological vocabulary for this debate (тысячелетнее царство, хилиазм) is itself imported from and shaped by the Western Reformed/Orthodox controversy; there is no neutral native term that does not already signal a position.	Do not seek a “neutral” term; instead state the curriculum’s own interpretive stance explicitly and name the historic Eastern (broadly amillennial/recapitulation) reading by name for contrast, per doctrine registry entry below.

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4. Crowded Semantic Neighborhoods Requiring Fencing

These terms exist and are well-formed in Russian, but each sits inside a semantic neighborhood already densely populated by Orthodox liturgical/devotional vocabulary, Soviet-era political vocabulary, secular pop-culture usage, or (uniquely for this letter) contemporary Russian religious-freedom law. Each requires an explicit “fence” — a stated boundary distinguishing the Revelation referent from its neighbor — maintained consistently across every occurrence and every lesson.

Term	Crowded Neighbor(s)	Fence Required
невеста (bride)	невеста Христова = a nun at monastic tonsure (Orthodox)	State explicitly, every occurrence: the Bride is the whole redeemed church corporately, never a consecrated ascetic subset.
образ (image, of the beast)	образ = the theological term for a sacred icon (Orthodox veneration)	State explicitly: this образ is a demonic counterfeit demanding false worship, categorically unlike legitimate icon theology.
печать / начертание (seal / mark)	Risk of the two bleeding into each other, destroying the book’s central positive/negative contrast	Maintain absolute lexical separation in every translation pass; never use печать for the beast’s mark or начертание for God’s seal, even in paraphrase.
зверь (beast)	Colloquial slang “он зверь!” = admiring “he’s a beast/awesome”	Exposition must reinforce sinister register at every occurrence; never allow standalone use without contextual reinforcement.
чаша (bowl of wrath)	чаша = the Eucharistic chalice (Orthodox and Protestant communion alike)	Explicitly contrast “чаша гнева” (cup of wrath) with the “чаша благословения” (cup of blessing) of communion in exposition, rather than leaving the overlap unaddressed.
Вавилон великий (Babylon the great)	Popular/nationalist rhetorical use of “decadent Babylon” applied to “the West”	State explicitly that Babylon symbolizes any and every anti-God, self-glorifying human power system across history — never identify it with a specific contemporary nation or bloc.
Новый Иерусалим (New Jerusalem)	Ново-Иерусалимский монастырь near Moscow (a real, well-known site)	Distinguish explicitly on first mention per lesson: John’s descending eschatological city, not the historical Russian monastery.
старец (twenty-four elders)	старец = a venerated Orthodox monastic spiritual-elder tradition (e.g., the Optina elders)	Clarify these are the twenty-four heavenly elders of the vision, not an allusion to the historical eldership tradition — a mild asset, not a hazard, but still needs a one-time disambiguating clause.
свидетель / свидетельство (witness/testimony)	“Свидетели Иеговы,” a legally banned “extremist” organization (2017 Russian Supreme Court ruling)	CRITICAL fence, legal as well as theological: explicit disambiguating clause required at first use in every lesson; human theologian AND legal/cultural review at every occurrence; never left to context alone.
тысячелетнее царство (millennium)	Historic Eastern Orthodox amillennial/recapitulation reading (shared broadly with much of the Western patristic tradition) vs. Western premillennial/dispensational frameworks	State the curriculum’s own interpretive position explicitly; never present a literal future-millennium reading as neutral, doctrinally uncontested common ground.
гнев (wrath)	Popular association of divine anger with capricious or unstable emotion	Frame consistently as righteous, judicial response to persistent evil, paired with God’s sovereignty and love, not arbitrary rage.
Армагеддон (Armageddon)	Fully secularized Russian pop-culture cliché for “any catastrophe/doomsday”	Recover the specific, sovereign-God-governed theological referent explicitly against the flattened doomsday-media connotation.
мучение / мученик (torment / martyr)	Shared root; мученик is a heavily loaded Orthodox hagiographic category	Distinguish clearly: 9:5 etc. describes torment inflicted on the wicked as judgment, not the martyrdom of believers — referents are opposite despite shared root.

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5. Transliteration vs. Paraphrase Decision Log

Term	Decision	Rationale
откровение (not bare “апокалипсис” as working term)	Paraphrase/translate, transliteration rejected as primary term	”Апокалипсис” is productive in secular disaster-media Russian (“зомби-апокалипсис”); using откровение as the working exposition term (retaining “Откровение Иоанна Богослова” only as the fixed book title) keeps the Christ-given-disclosure sense primary.
Альфа и Омега	Transliterate + one-time gloss	Already established Synodal usage; the underlying “totality” idiom must still be explained since Cyrillic’s own alphabet edges are not being invoked (see §3).
Аваддон / Аполлион	Transliterate both forms	The Greek text itself preserves both the Hebrew and Greek names; Synodal precedent retains both — do not collapse to one.
Гог и Магог	Transliterate	Established proper-name forms with no viable native paraphrase.
Армагеддон	Transliterate, but recover theological meaning explicitly	Necessary because no native paraphrase exists for this proper name; the translation problem is not lexical but registerial (see §4 fencing).
Аллилуия / Аминь	Transliterate (already fully naturalized loanwords)	Deeply embedded shared Orthodox/Protestant liturgical vocabulary; strong asset, no paraphrase needed.
Вседержитель, диадима, венец	Native Russian/established theological terms, not transliterations	Existing precise vocabulary is available and doctrinally sound; transliterating the Greek (pantokratōr, diadēma, stephanos) would be unnecessary and would forfeit existing Orthodox iconographic/liturgical resonance that functions as an asset here.
Число зверя / 666	Numeral retained as numeral, not spelled out as primary form, with “шестьсот шестьдесят шесть” as the spelled Synodal-register form for liturgical-style reading	Resists both over-literal numerological speculation and secular pop-cultural trivialization; keeping the numeral form also matches contemporary reading habits while the spelled form preserves Synodal register for public reading contexts.
свидетель / свидетельство	Translate (no transliteration option exists or would help)	This is a pure disambiguation problem, not a transliteration problem — see §4. Noted here to record explicitly that transliteration was considered and rejected as irrelevant to resolving this term’s specific risk.
Мессия / Христос, Иисус	Reuse baseline exactly (already transliterated/established)	No new decision required; baseline Romans package governs.

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6. Ranked List of Highest-Risk Ambiguities (This Letter)

Ranked by combined severity of doctrinal centrality, cultural/religious collision, and (where applicable) legal exposure. All Critical/High entries require the review routing specified in bible_term_registry.json and the forthcoming Revelation doctrine risk registry.

1. свидетель / свидетельство (witness/testimony) — Critical. Unique among all terms in this analysis for carrying live legal risk (2017 extremist-organization ban), not merely theological/cultural risk. Central to the Perseverance and Faithful Witness doctrine across the whole book. Requires theologian + legal/cultural review at every single occurrence, with no exceptions.
2. невеста (bride) / брак Агнца (marriage of the Lamb) — Critical. Direct collision with the Orthodox monastic-tonsure title risks the entire Church-as-Bride doctrine being read as addressed to an ascetic minority rather than the whole redeemed church — the corporate-vs-elite error the baseline already flags as its single most persistent recurring risk pattern (saints, church, now bride).
3. тысяча лет / тысячелетнее царство (millennium) and первое воскресение (first resurrection) — Critical. Structurally identical to the baseline’s East-West justification/theosis divergence: a live, named interpretive controversy between historic Eastern amillennial reading and Western premillennial frameworks, entangled with the doctrine of the Return and Reign of Christ. Silence on the curriculum’s own position is not a neutral option here.
4. праведность святых / вменённая праведность at 19:8 — Critical. Direct point of contact with the Romans baseline’s Critical imputed-righteousness doctrine; if this verse is read as autonomously earned merit (a synergistic ascetic-achievement framing), it contradicts the forensic grace argument the whole Language Package is built to protect.
5. образ зверя (image of the beast) — High. The “образ” lexical collision with icon theology risks either (a) readers half-consciously importing legitimate icon-veneration categories into a demonic counterfeit, or (b) a hostile reading of the passage as covert anti-icon polemic if the fence is not stated positively and pastorally.
6. начертание / печать (mark of the beast / God’s seal) — High. Any translator drift toward shared vocabulary between these two terms would silently destroy the book’s central positive/negative symbolic contrast — an error that would not be self-correcting from context alone, since both terms describe a mark placed on a person’s body/forehead.
7. Вавилон великий (Babylon the great) — High. Real and present risk of politically-charged mapping onto “the decadent West” in some contemporary Russian nationalist-religious rhetoric; requires the curriculum to state its own strictly transhistorical, non-partisan reading explicitly rather than leaving the symbol open to appropriation.
8. Новый Иерусалим (New Jerusalem) — High. Concrete, named, well-known real-world referent (a Moscow-area monastery) sits in the exact same lexical slot as John’s eschatological city; without explicit disambiguation, confusion is not merely theoretical but likely for readers with any exposure to Russian church history or tourism.
9. зверь (beast) — High. The register-inversion risk (admiring slang “он зверь!”) is unusually easy to trigger by accident in casual paraphrase or lesson-leader ad-libbing, even though the written glossary term itself is correct; flagged high for review of all expository (not just Scripture-quotation) text.
10. чаша (bowls of wrath) — Medium-High. The Eucharistic-chalice collision is less doctrinally destructive than items 1-9 above (it does not invert a truth claim) but is highly likely to occur silently, since чаша is used constantly and unreflectively in ordinary devotional Russian.
11. сборище сатанинское (synagogue of Satan, 2:9; 3:9) — High. Given the historical weight of antisemitism already flagged in the Romans baseline for chs. 9-11, this specific first-century polemical phrase requires the same careful, explicit historical-referent framing so it is never generalized into anti-Jewish sentiment.
12. чародеи/волхвы (sorcerers) — High. Intersects live, prominent post-Soviet occult-practice culture (экстрасенсы, folk healers); risk is under-application (readers not recognizing contemporary relevance) rather than mistranslation per se.
13. знамение (sign) vs. гороскоп/пророчество-as-omen — Medium. Lower-frequency but recurring risk of the folk-astrological register bleeding into the book’s own God-given symbolic-disclosure category.
14. старец (twenty-four elders) — Medium. Lower risk than items above because the Orthodox association (venerated monastic elder) is dignifying rather than distorting, but still requires a one-time disambiguating clause to prevent conflation with the historical eldership tradition.
15. Армагеддон — Medium. Secularized pop-culture flattening is a real but comparatively low-stakes risk (it dilutes rather than inverts or corrupts the doctrine), affecting register more than truth-content.

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7. Full-Book Chapter Coverage Confirmation

Every chapter of Revelation has been reviewed for linguistic-gap content. Chapters already carrying substantial new-term analysis are cross-referenced to 08_core_glossary.md; chapters contributing no additional gap beyond what is already tabled are explicitly confirmed below rather than silently skipped.

Chapter(s)	Coverage Status
1	Reviewed — source of откровение, знамение (genre/method), Который есть и был и грядёт, Альфа и Омега, Вседержитель, первенец из мёртвых. Fully covered in §§2-5 above and core glossary §§1-2.
2–3 (seven letters)	Reviewed — source of побеждающий, скорбь, боязливые/cowardly (ch. 21 but paired doctrinally here), сборище сатанинское, венец, старец anticipatory references, храм Божий (3:12), Новый Иерусалим (3:12). No further new gaps beyond core glossary §§5, 9-10.
4–5	Reviewed — Сидящий на престоле, Свят Свят Свят, двадцать четыре старца, четыре животных, Агнец, достоин, Лев от колена Иудина, корень Давидов, как бы закланный, новая песнь, слава и честь. Covered in core glossary §§2-3, 10.
6	Reviewed — seal-opening scenes; души убиенных, взыщешь/воздашь по справедливости (avenge), венец (6:2), гнев (6:16-17), ад (6:8). Covered §6, §10 core glossary; no additional new gap.
7	Reviewed — сто сорок четыре тысячи, великое множество, всякое племя и колено и народ и язык, белые одежды, великая скорбь, храм Божий, скиния/будет обитать (7:15), источник/вода жизни (7:17). Covered core glossary §§13, 6, 8.
8–9	Reviewed — труба, полынь, саранча, Аваддон/Аполлион, бездна, число/plague vocabulary, мучение (basanismos), чародеи (9:21). Covered core glossary §§11, 6, 7. No additional gap beyond §3/§4 above.
10	Reviewed — книжка (little scroll), тайна (10:7). Covered core glossary §§1, 11; no new gap.
11	Reviewed — храм Божий/measuring, свидетели (two witnesses, 11:3,7 — reinforces Critical fence in §4/§6 above), зверь (11:7), труба (11:15), Царство Господа нашего (11:15), завет/ark of the covenant (11:19). No new gap beyond items already tabled.
12	Reviewed — дракон, древний змий, диавол, сатана, обвинитель, венец (12:1), диадима (12:3), побеждающий (12:11 — definitional verse for item 2 in §2 doctrine matrix), Царство Господа нашего (12:10). Covered core glossary §§7, 9.
13	Reviewed — зверь, образ зверя, начертание, число зверя/666, диадима (13:1) — this chapter is the single densest concentration of the Judgment-of-the-Wicked fencing problems in §4; no additional gaps beyond those already tabled there.
14	Reviewed — Агнец (14:1), сто сорок четыре тысячи (14:1,3), вечное Евангелие, точило гнева Божия/winepress, венец (14:14), блудники/idolaters cross-reference (anticipatory of 21:8/22:15). Covered core glossary §§3, 12, 9.
15	Reviewed — песнь Моисея…и песнь Агнца, Вседержитель (15:3), фимиам/храм imagery, чаши (15:7 — introduces the Eucharistic-collision fence, item 10 §6 above).
16	Reviewed — чаши (bowls of wrath, densest concentration), гнев, Армагеддон (16:16), Совершилось (16:17 — first of the two-occurrence pairing with 21:6, a mandatory cross-document consistency item).
17	Reviewed — Вавилон великий, блудница, зверь, диадима cross-reference, тайна (17:5,7), число/seven heads symbolism. Densest concentration of §4’s Babylon/harlot fencing problems; no additional gap beyond those tabled.
18	Reviewed — Вавилон великий (fall), товар/торговля, плач (lament — root-echo forward to 21:4), чародеи (18:23). No new gap.
19	Reviewed — Аллилуия, брак Агнца, невеста (19:7,9 — Critical fencing item 2 §6), Верный и Истинный, Царь царей и Господь господствующих, Слово Божие, озеро огненное (19:20), образ зверя (19:20). Densest concentration of Worship-of-the-Lamb and Church-as-Bride items; no additional gap beyond §§2-6 above.
20	Reviewed — тысяча лет/тысячелетнее царство and первое воскресение (Critical item 3 §6), Гог и Магог, престол великий белый, книга жизни, смерть вторая, озеро огненное, ад. This chapter is the single highest-concentration risk chapter in the book; no additional gap beyond §§2-6 above, but flagged here as requiring the most sustained review attention of any single chapter.
21:1-8 (core passage)	Reviewed in full as the curriculum’s theological anchor — новый (kainos), моря уже нет, Новый Иерусалим, невеста (21:2,9), скиния/будет обитать, Совершилось (21:6, paired with 16:17), Альфа и Омега (21:6), даром (21:6 — grace-family fence), боязливые, смерть вторая, чародеи, блудники, идолослужители, лжецы. All items fully analyzed in §§2-6 above; this passage carries the single highest concentration of Critical/High items of any 8-verse span in the book (items 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10 in §6 all converge here) and must receive full-depth review in every Phase 2 pass.
21:9-27	Reviewed — невеста (21:9), драгоценный камень, основания/двенадцать апостолов Агнца, храма я не видел в нём (21:22, climactic no-temple contrast), книга жизни (21:27), Царство Господа нашего cross-reference.
22	Reviewed — древо жизни, река воды жизни, не будет уже никакого проклятия, будут царствовать (22:5), гряду скоро (22:7,12,20), пророчество/self-referential (22:7,10,18-19), даром (22:17), Аминь Гряди Господи Иисусе (22:20 — mandatory verbatim consistency item), благодать (closing benediction, 22:21 — must retain the “apart from works” force established in the Romans baseline).

Confirmation: All 22 chapters of Revelation have been reviewed for linguistic gaps. No chapter was silently omitted; every chapter either contributes new items tabled in §§2-6 or is explicitly confirmed above as reviewed-with-no-additional-gap beyond material already tabled.

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8. Summary Recommendations for Phase 2

1. Load this document alongside 08_core_glossary.md, bible_term_registry.json, and the baseline Romans Language Package files before any Phase 2 segment translation of Revelation begins.
2. Treat §6’s ranked list as the priority order for back-translation and theologian review scheduling — items 1-4 (Critical) must never be batch-processed without dedicated human review; they should not be treated as routine glossary lookups even though their target-term renderings are already fixed.
3. Every fencing pair identified in §4 (невеста/nun, образ/icon, печать/начертание, чаша/Eucharist, Вавилон/West, Новый Иерусалим/monastery, зверь/slang, тысячелетнее царство/Orthodox eschatology) must be implemented as an automated validation check in Phase 2 Step 15-17, analogous to the baseline’s existing forbidden-substitution checklist, before any segment containing these terms is marked approved.
4. Revelation 21:1-8, as the curriculum’s core passage, should be the first segment translated and reviewed in full, since it uniquely concentrates six of the fifteen ranked ambiguities in §6 within eight verses.
5. This linguistic gap analysis, together with the updated bible_term_registry.json, must inform the incrementing of the Revelation-specific translation_memory.json extension and the forthcoming Revelation doctrine_risk_registry.json, ensuring no contradiction with the risk tiers already assigned here.

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This document extends, and does not contradict, the baseline Romans Language Package. All term renderings cited here match 08_core_glossary.md and bible_term_registry.json exactly; consult those files for full definitional entries.