“In scripture a number of standard ideas are associated with blood, including … impurity or guilt (see Leviticus 12:5; 15:19, 25). … Our Savior, in atoning for the sins of all (thereby ridding the world of sin and death upon conditions of repentance), had the blood literally squeezed out of him. In this context, perhaps, blood is not a multiplicity of different shadows, but one complete symbol for the cycle of mortality, sins, and redemption” (Gaskill, Lost Language of Symbolism, 29–31).