by the blood More literally because of the blood … and because of the word.

they loved not their lives St John 12:25, St Luke 14:26 are the closest parallels among the similar sayings of our Lord. Here, as in all of them, the word for "life" is that elsewhere rendered "soul" not the same as that used for "life eternal" in St John, l.c.

unto the death They carried the temper of not loving life (not only to the renunciation of life's joys, but) even to death.

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