An Etymology of Blessing

A lecture given at L’Abri Fellowship in Southborough,
Massachusetts. For more information,
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by Esther Dalton


"Blessing, bless you, blessed"--It's a word that gets thrown
around a lot. But does it mean what we think it means? How might
looking at the peculiar etymology of our English word "bless"
give us a thicker, richer understanding of blessing?


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