but "maranatha" is never for chanting wor, we got chant one
mehh
Got. not common lah.
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Maranatha (either מרנא תא; maranâ'
thâ' or מרן אתא; maran
'athâ' ) is an Aramaic phrase occurring once only in
the New
Testament (see
Aramaic of Jesus) and
also in the Didache
which is part of the Apostolic Fathers' collection. It is
transliterated into Greek letters rather than translated, and is
found at the end of Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians
(1 Cor
16:22) . The NRSV translates it as: "Our Lord,
come!" but notes that it could also be translated as: "Our Lord has
come"; the NIV translates: "Come, O Lord"; the
NAB notes:
The phrase may have been used as a greeting between Early
Christians,[1]
and it is possibly in this way that it was used by the Apostle
Paul.
The original Greek meaning of "anathema", a gift or sacrifice to God,
leads to the interpretation that "Anathema Maranatha" in a New
Testament context could mean "a gift to God at the coming of our
Lord." John
Wesley in his Notes on the Bible comments that,
"It seems to have been customary with the Jews of that age, when
they had pronounced any man an Anathema, to add the Syriac
expression, Maran - atha, that is, "The Lord cometh;" namely, to
execute vengeance upon him." The Catholic Encyclopedia states,
"Anathema signifies also to be overwhelmed with maledictions... At
an early date the Church adopted the word anathema to signify the
exclusion of a sinner from the society of the faithful; but the
anathema was pronounced chiefly against heretics." The negative
understanding of maranatha began to die out by the late
19th Century; Jamiesen, Fausset and Brown's commentary of 1871
separates Maranatha from anathema in the same way as modern
scholars. However the traditional interpretation is still
occasionally found among some Christians today.
"Maranatha" is the name of a Swedish Pentecostal movement of
considerable success during the 1960s, although it has since lost
in popularity. Some of its opinions are controversial, including
denial of evolution. Latterly it has lent its
name to Maranatha Music and to various other Pentecostal churches,
including Maranatha, Waterford.
"Maranatha" is the name of a song by Christian artist Michael
Card. It is also the name of a song by Christian
hip hop artist Sho
Baraka, as well as the title of an album by Swedish
black metal band Funeral
Mist.
"Maranatha" is the prayer word recommended by the World Community for Christian
Meditation, the community of followers of the teaching
of John Main
OSB's teachings on the practice of Christian meditation. The prayer is
one where one places everything aside: instead of talking to God,
one is just being with God, allowing God’s presence to fill one's
heart, thus transforming one's inner being.[1]
