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I recall from some long lost bit of instruction that the origins of the phrase "safe and sound", described a sea vessel that had weathered a storm and was safely in port, or calmer waters, and sound in that it had suffered no damage in ancient times.
The phrase occurs in the New Testament describing the way the Prodigal Son's father received the Prodigal back to the family: the celebration was said to have occurred because the father had received the son back "safe and sound". This would have been the translation of the Greek text by the King James translators of 1611
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