Glossary Term
Risk: Medium- Approved rendering
- закон
- Transliteration
- zakon
- Rejected alternatives
- правило, заповедь (reserve for individual commandments)
Law
закон is the standard Synodal term for the Mosaic Law/Torah and also the ordinary word for civil law, which is helpful for Paul’s legal-metaphor argument in Romans 2-7 but requires context to keep readers from assuming only Russian/Soviet civil-law categories are in view.
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