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According to a standard dictionary etymology of the English word, amen passed from Greek into Late Latin, and thence into English. [11] From Hebrew, the word was later adopted into the Arabic religious vocabulary and leveled to the Arabic root أ م ن, [12] which is of similar meanings to the Hebrew. The interjection occurs in the Christian ...
Glory to God, Source of all being, Eternal Word and Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning is now and shall be for ever. Amen. The doxology in use by the English-speaking Orthodox and Greek-Catholic Churches follows the Greek form, of which one English translation is: Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,
The text of the Matthean Lord's Prayer in the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible ultimately derives from first Old English translations. Not considering the doxology, only five words of the KJV are later borrowings directly from the Latin Vulgate (these being debts, debtors, temptation, deliver, and amen). [1]
As a word it has a full range of derived forms according to the standard rules of Hebrew morphology. This is quite different to 'Amen' as a word in the English language, where it is a loanword with few real derived forms (i.e. 'to amen', 'amens' and 'amening', while they make sense, are somewhat artificial nonces).
A few books of English chant (notably Burgess and Palmer's The Plainchant Gradual) make use of oioueae for the equivalent English phrase, "world without end. Amen". According to Guinness World Records, Euouae is the longest word in the English language consisting only of vowels, and also the English word with the most consecutive vowels. [3]
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Amen, Amen. ℣. You have given them bread from heaven [Alleluia]. [5] ℟. The source of all happiness [Alleluia]. ℣. Let us pray: Lord God, by the Paschal Mystery of the Death and Resurrection of Your only Son, You accomplish the work of man’s redemption. Full of trust, we proclaim the Paschal Mystery in the sacramental signs of the ...
The English Language Liturgical Consultation (ELLC), a successor body to the International Consultation on English Texts (ICET), published in 1988 a revised translation of the Apostles' Creed. It avoided the word his in relation to God and spoke of Jesus Christ as "God's only Son" instead of "his only Son".