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Paul closes 1 Corinthians with an Aramaic prayer for Jesus to come. The prayer after the meal in the Didache, an early church manual, ends with the same Aramaic language, its one other appearance in early Christian writings.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
1 Corinthians 16:22
New Testament
21 I, Paul, send this greeting with my own hand. 22 Let anyone who has no love for the Lord be accursed. Our Lord, come! 23 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you. 24 My love be with all of you in Christ Jesus.
Didache 10:6
Early Christian
4 'Above all, we thank You because You are mighty. May You be glorified forever.' 5 'Remember, Lord, Your Church, and protect it from all evil. Perfect it in Your love, and gather it together in holiness from the four winds into Your kingdom that You have prepared. Yours is the power and the glory forever.' 6 'Let grace come, and let this world pass away. Hosanna to the God of David. If anyone is holy, let him come; if anyone is not, let him repent. Our Lord, Come! Amen.' 7 Allow the prophets to conduct the Eucharist as they choose.
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Notes and References
“... The first reference to Jesus’s coming as Lord is found in the μαραναθά invocation at Did. 10.6. Amongst the Christian literature of the first two centuries, the μαραναθά prayer appears in this form, as a Greek transliteration of Aramaic, only here and at 1 Cor 16:22. The roots of this “earliest Christian prayer” are found in the theophany tradition of the Hebrew Scriptures (Deut 33:2; Judg 5:4–5; Hab 3:3–6; Mic 1:2–5a; Zech 14:5), perhaps especially in the form preserved in the Aramaic Qumran fragment of 1 En. 1.9 (4QAram). ...”
Smith, Murray J.
"The Lord Jesus and His Coming in the Didache" in Draper, Jonathan A.; Jefford, Clayton N. (ed.) The Didache: A Missing Piece of the Puzzle in Early Christianity
(p. 381) SBL Press, 2015
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