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‖ Maranatha|mærəˈnæθə|
[In Gr. form µαραναθά; the Aramaic form is variously conjectured to be māran ăthā ‘Our Lord has come’, or marănā 'thā ‘O our Lord, come thou’.]
An Aramaic phrase occurring in 1 Cor. xvi. 22; often erroneously regarded as composing with the word that precedes it in the text a formula of imprecation, anathema maranatha. Hence (as an abbreviation of this formula) used subst. for: A terrible curse.
Coverdale's spelling (see below) is a corruption of Luther's maharam motha, which represents the fictitious Heb. mohŏrām māvthāh ‘devoted to death’.
1382Wyclif 1 Cor. xvi. 22 If ony man loued not oure Lord Jhesu Crist, be he cursid, Maranatha, that is, in the comynge of the Lord. 1526Tindale ibid., Anathema maranatha. 1535Coverdale ibid., Anathema Maharan Matha. 1604R. Cawdrey Table Alph., Maranatha, accursed. 1640Bp. Hall Chr. Moder. ii. iv. 20 Those who..shall invent..pernicious doctrines,..are worthy of a Maran⁓atha, and the lowest hell. 1721Bailey, Maranatha, the highest Degree of Excommunication. 1846W. F. Hook Church Dict. (ed. 5) 598 Maranatha could not be any part of the form of excommunication, but only a reason for pronouncing Anathema against those who express their hatred against Christ, by denying His coming. 1882Farrar Early Chr. I. ix. 193 How does the writer meet their objections? Not by thundering forth with yet deeper conviction Maran⁓atha, but [etc.]. 1913F. B. Macnutt Advent Certainties vi. 97 To the Corinthian Christian and to St. Paul alike ‘Maran atha’ was the expression of a supreme reality..which is the keynote of the New Testament. 1926A. Chambers tr. Arseniew's Mysticism & Eastern Church ii. vi. 123 And, finally, the closing cry quivering with joyous awe: Maranatha (‘Come, our Lord!’). This appeal in Aramaic takes us back to the earliest period of the primitive Church in Jerusalem. 1961New Eng. Bible 1 Cor. xvi. 22 Marana tha—Come, O Lord! 1964E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Transl. viii. 170 Such expressions as ‘Abba Father’, Maranatha, and ‘baptized into Christ’ could be used with reasonable expectation that they would be understood. |