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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Maran-atha (A religious chant)
Aramaic for our Lord, come. Paul puts it at the end of 1 Corinthians, and the early church seems to have used it as a set phrase.
Aramaic for our Lord, come. Paul puts it at the end of 1 Corinthians, and the early church seems to have used it as a set phrase.
Maranatha is not a name but an Aramaic expression, “our Lord, come,” that Paul appends to the close of 1 Corinthians as a solemn invocation (1 Corinthians 16:22). It functioned in the early church as both a prayer for Christ's return and a formula of exclusion pronounced against those who did not love him, showing how quickly Aramaic liturgical phrases entered Greek-speaking congregations.
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- 1 Corinthians 16:22
