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Writing in the 1990s and 2000s, author Albert Jack [18] and Messianic Rabbi Richard Pustelniak, [19] claim that the original meaning of the expression was that the ties between people who have made a blood covenant (or have shed blood together in battle) were stronger than ties formed by "the water of the womb", thus "The blood of the covenant ...
There's a meme going around saying that the original and complete version of the idiom is "The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb." As is explained in this article, there's no support for this assertion. There's documentation supporting "Blood is thicker than water" going back to 12th century.
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The blood of Christians is seed," is perhaps a more faithful, if less poetic, rendering. There is a similarity of content, if not of purpose, between this work and Tertullian's Ad nationes —published earlier in the same year—and it has been claimed that the latter is a finished draft of Apologeticus .
The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, published as Holy Blood, Holy Grail in the United States, is a book by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln. [1] The book was first published in 1982 by Jonathan Cape in London as an unofficial follow-up to three BBC Two TV documentaries that were part of the Chronicle series.
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Christ's side pierced by a lance, drawing blood. Blood of Christ, also known as the Most Precious Blood, in Christian theology refers to the physical blood actually shed by Jesus Christ primarily on the Cross, and the salvation which Christianity teaches was accomplished thereby, or the sacramental blood (wine) present in the Eucharist or Lord's Supper, which some Christian denominations ...