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Is an adventist charitable and missionary organization from Romania, the goal is adventist church planting in area without adventist presence. Web site: www.maranatharomania.net

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+Is an adventist charitable and missionary organization from Romania, the goal is adventist church planting in area without adventist presence.
-This '''Maranatha''' (either מרנא תא; '''''maranâ' thâ' ''''' or מרן אתא; '''''maran 'athâ' ''''') is an [[Aramaic]] word occurring only once in the [[New Testament]] (''see [[Aramaic_of_Jesus#Maranatha_.28.CE.BC.CE.B1.CF.81.CE.B1.CE.BD.CE.B1_.CE.B8.CE.B1.29|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 of Tarsus|Paul]]'s ''[[First Epistle to the Corinthians]]'' ({{bibleverse|1|Cor|16:22}}) . The [[New Revised Standard Version|NRSV]] translates it as: "Our Lord, come!" but notes that it could also be translated as: "Our Lord has come"; the [[New International Version|NIV]] translates: "Come, O Lord"; the [[New American Bible|NAB]] notes:
+Web site: www.maranatharomania.net
-:"As understood here ("O Lord, come!"), it is a [[Prayer in the New Testament|prayer]] for the [[Doomsday cult|early]] [[Second Coming|return of Christ]]. If the Aramaic words are divided differently (Maran atha, "Our Lord has come"), it becomes a [[Creed|credal]] declaration. The former interpretation is supported by what appears to be a Greek equivalent of this acclamation in [[Book of Revelation]] 22:20 "Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!""
-The phrase may have been used as a greeting between [[Early Christians]],<ref>It is found in the [[Didache]].</ref> 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.
-==References==
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-*[http://www.ccel.org/ccel/jamieson/jfb.xi.vii.xvii.html?highlight=maranatha#highlight Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown: ''Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible'' (1871)],
-*[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01455e.htm CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Anathema],
-*[http://www.wccm.org/home.asp?pagestyle=home World Community for Christian Meditation]
-*{{de icon}} [http://www.welt-der-bibel.de/bibliographie.1.2.66.html#vers22 Welt der Bibel] German Site containing article on maranatha
-*[http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/451.htm] From the Catechism of the Catholic Church
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