Seems maybe to come originally from some guy’s interpretation of an Arab interpretation of the passage, which replaces water with milk but equates the blood part to “blood of the covenant”:
H.C. Trumbull contrasts the expression with a comparison of blood and milk in the Arab world:
We, in the West, are accustomed to say that “blood is thicker than water”; but the Arabs have the idea that blood is thicker than milk, than a mother’s milk. With them, any two children nourished at the same breast are called “milk-brothers,” or “sucking brothers”; and the tie between such is very strong. […] But the Arabs hold that brothers in the covenant of blood are closer than brothers at a common breast; that those who have tasted each other’s blood are in a surer covenant than those who have tasted the same milk together; that “blood-lickers,” as the blood-brothers are sometimes called, are more truly one than “milk-brothers,” or “sucking brothers”; that, indeed, blood is thicker than milk, as well as thicker than water.[16]
I think you’re missing my point. People love to give random “corrections” of things that may or may not be correct themselves. It seems like people just love to mindlessly parrot things.
“The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.”
This version was coined in the 1990s
Seems maybe to come originally from some guy’s interpretation of an Arab interpretation of the passage, which replaces water with milk but equates the blood part to “blood of the covenant”:
(From the Other Interpretations section)
I feel like everyone just makes this shit up
Yes.
That… that is what creativity is.
Its not always… sensible, or … broadly liked… but yeah, people things up… is creativity.
If you’re quoting some old famous saying?
Somebody, at some point, said that for the first time in history.
I think you’re missing my point. People love to give random “corrections” of things that may or may not be correct themselves. It seems like people just love to mindlessly parrot things.