Passage
Romans 9
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Glossary Term
Abba
Aramaic term of intimacy preserved untranslated in the Synodal text of Romans 8:15 itself ('Авва, Отче!'), so this Language Package simply follows established Bible usage.
ROM.9.4
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Glossary Term
Adoption
усыновление is the standard legal/family term for adoption and works well; ensure the accompanying text stresses full inheritance rights (Romans 8:17), since Soviet-era and post-Soviet orphanage culture carries strong negative associations with adoption as institutional charity for the unwanted rather than full family incorporation.
ROM.9.4
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Doctrine
Adoption into God's Family
Full son-status with complete inheritance rights must be stressed explicitly, since Soviet-era and post-Soviet orphanage (детский дом) culture carries strong negative associations with adoption as institutional charity for the unwanted rather than full, permanent family incorporation.
ROM.9.4
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Glossary Term
Called
Context-sensitive: in 1:1 = called to apostleship; in 1:7 = called to be saints; in 8:28-30 = effectual calling to salvation.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Calling
Noun form.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Covenant
завет is the deeply established term (it names the two Testaments themselves: Ветхий/Новый Завет).
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
David
Synodal standard proper name form.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Davidic Covenant
Requires OT narrative background explanation for readers whose primary Bible exposure has been liturgical excerpts (Psalter, Gospel/Epistle lectionary readings) rather than continuous OT narrative reading.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Deity of Christ
Shared, settled Nicene-creed confession with Russian Orthodoxy (the Creed itself is prayed at every Divine Liturgy); risk is precision of expression, not defense against a rival theological framework.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Divine Calling
God's personal, relational call must be distinguished from судьба (fate) and предназначение (impersonal predetermined destiny), both live categories in Russian folk and literary fatalism, and from Soviet-era language of assigned social 'destiny' or duty.
ROM.9.11-12
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Doctrine
Effectual Calling
God's sovereign call that ensures the salvation of the called must be kept distinct from судьба/рок (fate/doom), strong currents in Russian folk and literary fatalism, and introduced carefully given that Reformed predestination categories have no developed parallel in Orthodox soteriology.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Election
God's sovereign personal choice.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Father
Отец (capitalized) for God as Father is standard and doctrinally clear.
ROM.9.4
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Glossary Term
Glory
слава is standard and well established (also the root of 'Slavic' cultural pride, e.g.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
God
Бог is the standard, universally recognized term across Orthodox, Protestant, and secular Russian usage; unlike Hindi's 'भगवान', there is no competing polytheistic default sense to guard against.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
Messiah
Мессия is transliterated and used alongside Христос (Christ, itself originally a title meaning 'Anointed One' but functioning as a proper name in everyday Russian).
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Messianic Promise
Христос functions as Jesus' effective surname in everyday Russian usage, and the original 'Anointed One' / promise-fulfillment sense has worn smooth through overuse; the curriculum should explicitly re-surface the title's Jewish messianic-fulfillment meaning rather than assume readers still hear it.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
Seed Of David
Romans 1:3; the archaic Synodal phrasing 'от семени Давидова' is the recognized Bible-register form.
ROM.9.5