The phrase has been used in the Hebrew Bible by Jews and by Christians since the time of the early Church. In some cultures, sneezing is seen as a sign of good fortune or God’s beneficence. The practice of blessing someone who sneezes dates as far back as at least CE 77 in the West.
About God bless you in brief
The phrase has been used in the Hebrew Bible by Jews and by Christians since the time of the early Church. In some cultures, sneezing is seen as a sign of good fortune or God’s beneficence. The practice of blessing someone who sneezes dates as far back as at least CE 77 in the West. Some have offered an explanation suggesting that people once held the folk belief that a person’s soul could be thrown from their body when they sneezed.
Some people may have thought that the heart stops beating during a sneeze, and that the phrase ‘God bless you’ encourages the heart to continue beating. In Persian culture, the response to sneezer is ‘Afiat Basheh’. More often in the old days and out of superstitious nature, Sneezing sometimes has been called ‘sabr’, meaning ‘to wait or be patient’
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