Glossary Term
Risk: Medium- Approved rendering
- abezizwe
- Transliteration
- abezizwe
- Rejected alternatives
- abezinye izinhlanga (people of other races/ethnicities, avoid given South Africa's history of racial classification)
Gentiles
abezizwe (‘people of other nations’) is the standard, non-racialized rendering. abezinye izinhlanga should be avoided given the painful historical weight of racial classification language (izinhlanga) in South Africa’s apartheid era; Paul’s Jew/Gentile distinction is about covenant history, not race.
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