Richard Bauckham writes 'Palestinian Jewish-Christian circles in the early church used the title ‘brother of the Lord’ not simply to identify the brothers, but as ascribing to them an authoritative status, and therefore the brothers themselves, not wishing to claim an authority based on mere blood-relationship to Jesus, avoided the term...' ❋ James F. McGrath (2009)
You know well that no King or Queen of Valdemar can wed a subject who is within the third degree of blood-relationship. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2003)
There was the small matter of needing a physical bond however-Ma'ar had used the bond of blood-relationship 'Could another bond serve as well? ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1995)
Mr. Garrison spoke at his funeral, calling him "a brother beloved incomparably beyond all blood-relationship." ... went to hear the Jubilee ❋ Unknown (1955)
She usually saw this church floating in the air; but it is noteworthy that in all the feasts having so to speak a blood-relationship with Jesus Christ or with the mysteries of His life, she saw this church not floating in the air but appearing as the crown of a pillar or of a stern thrusting itself up like a flower or fruit growing out of the earth. ❋ 1774-1824 (1954)
It is true that the noticeable resemblances of animals to one another, the possibility of arranging them in a system, the vague perception of an all-pervading plan of structure, did suggest to many minds the thought that systematic affinities might be due to blood-relationship. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
First, attention must be paid to the patriotic solidarity existing [241] amongst the bondsmen, a solidarity which, in the case of those who had been deported in the same ship, had all the sanctity of blood-relationship. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
For just as in Communities laws and customs prevail, so too in families the express commands of the Head, and customs also: and even more in the latter, because of blood-relationship and the benefits conferred: for there you have, to begin with, people who have affection and are naturally obedient to the authority which controls them. ❋ 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle (N/A)
The theory which postulates the blood-relationship of individuals of the same species may be correct, but it is utterly incapable of proof, and the same is true in a greater degree when there is question of individuals of the same class but of different species. ❋ Eberhard Dennert (N/A)
The milk-relationship sometimes completely takes the place of blood-relationship. ❋ Alexander F. Chamberlain (N/A)
In vain did his sister-in-law urge on him that the law was absurd, and that, as there was no blood-relationship between them, there could be nothing criminal in their living together; he had not the moral courage to face the cold criticism of a narrow-minded and bigoted community, and, though mad with passionate love, he hesitated to take the fatal plunge. ❋ Charlotte Fuhrer (N/A)
We sent out parties to make discoveries with Vasquez de Gama, Dampier, Anson, and Cook, and although we English gentlemen (who have no blood-relationship with the Norwegians) are known to have such a natural abhorrence at cold, the love of science prevailed, and a strong party were sent to the frozen seas with Ross, ❋ Various (N/A)
Dangerously ill, and yet here had been his uncle able to go through with -- not entirely calmly, to be sure; Adrian remembered the lack of attention, the broken eye-glasses; and yet, still able to go through with, not obviously shaken, this monthly farce; this dinner that in reality mocked all the real meaning of blood-relationship. ❋ Various (N/A)
The real relations which unite all living and extinct organisms in one or other of the principal groups of the natural system, are genealogical: their relationship in form is blood-relationship; the natural system is accordingly the genealogical tree of organisms, or their genealogema .... ❋ Unknown (N/A)
They may not be seamen, -- they may wear black coats and respectable white ties, and have large balances in the bank, but they are the Sea's men, -- brothers by blood-relationship, if not by trade, of ❋ Various (N/A)
It is not such help as would ease my necessary struggle that I ask, but the sympathy which only blood-relationship can bring. ❋ Various (N/A)
The wonderful solidarity of domestic life is an important factor in the Chinese career, for centuries of ancestor-worship, in spite of their arrestive tendency, have strengthened the bonds of family union and filial obedience by insisting on the supreme sanctity of blood-relationship. ❋ Emily Richings (N/A)
They have blood-relationship with the patriarchs, and psalmists, and prophets, and they dwell "in heavenly places" with Paul, and Augustine, and Luther, and Wesley. ❋ John Henry Jowett (N/A)
