Glossary Term
Risk: Medium- Approved rendering
- язычники
- Transliteration
- yazychniki
- Rejected alternatives
- иноземцы, неевреи
Gentiles
язычники is the standard Synodal term but in modern Russian carries a stronger sense of ‘pagans’ (practitioners of a non-monotheistic religion) than the more neutral ‘non-Jewish nations’ sense Paul intends; use народы (nations/peoples) in mission-scope contexts (see mission) to avoid an unintended slur-adjacent tone.
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