This closing invocation remains as a rare Aramaic outcropping in Paul’s Greek: “Marana tha! Our lord, come!” Surviving as it does in the vernacular of the original community, this summons again gives us a glimpse of these people’s apocalyptic mind-set. Imagining ourselves back into the weeks following Jesus’ execution, when his apostles repeatedly experienced him as raised and present, we can still catch a sense of their focused anticipation in the urgent query that remains in Luke’s mannered narrative: “So when they had all come together, they asked him, ‘Lord’—addressed to the risen Christ —‘will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?’” The imminent restoration of Israel, soon, that defining eschatological event, was for his community the original significance of Jesus’ resurrection. - Paula Fredricksen, When Christians Were Jews, p.88