Anathema Maranatha : Christian decree of excommunication: anathema ‘accursed’ in Greek, + Maranatha Aramaic for “The Lord is at hand” or “Come, Lord”.
... assumption that this event is going to happen at any moment now. 1 Corinthians 16:22 sings the identical tune but with a more violent voice: "If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha." "Anathema" is the Greek for "accursed", and "Maranatha" the Aramaic for "The Lord is at hand" or "Come, Lord!" Some Bible-students urge that Paul had no idea when the Last Day would ...
... thou dost not love God perfectly. 456) There is one thing especially in which creeds and churches surrender themselves to the devil, and that is in their anathemas. When the priest chants Anathema Maranatha, then I see a devil worshipper praying. 457) No doubt, when the priest curses, he is crying to God; but it is the God of anger and darkness to whom he devotes himself along with his enemy; ...
... explain why I venture to dedicate a poem on a Hindu subject, written in the Hindu spirit and constructed on Hindu principles of taste, style and management, to you who regard all these things as anathema maranatha? I am not attempting to convince you, only to justify, or at least define my own standpoint; perhaps also a little to reassure myself in the line of poetical art I have chosen. The impression ...
... because thou dost not love God perfectly. 457—There is one thing especially in which creeds and churches surrender themselves to the devil, and that is in their anathemas. When the priest chants Anathema Maranatha, then I see a devil praying. 1 458—No doubt, when the priest curses, he is crying to God; but it is the God of anger and darkness to whom he devotes himself along with his enemy; ...
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