Maranatha

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Maranatha in biblical translations, a word representing an Aramaic phrase occurring in 1 Corinthians 16:22 and usually left untranslated, its exact interpretation being variously understood by scholars and translators. Current scholarship favours the interpretation ‘Come, O Lord!’; the most widely advocated alternative being ‘Our Lord has come.’ It has also often erroneously been regarded as forming part of a formula of imprecation in anathema maranatha.

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