Blood and rose-coloured tincture

Meaning

The rose-coloured tincture is Christ’s saving power expressed through the main treatise’s material analogy. Part IV: the spiritual comparison · unit 33 supplies the decisive gloss: his blessed tincture is his rose-coloured blood. The preceding account connects its efficacy with passion, resurrection and exaltation, rather than an independently prepared medicinal liquid.

The verb cluster distinguishes changing, tinging, curing and healing while drawing them into one account of sinful people’s restoration. ‘More than perfectly’ expresses the superiority and communicative efficacy claimed for the perfected saviour. The comparison says ‘and much more’: it does not put Christ and the earthly chemical king on equal terms. The English’s blood-colour expression is therefore a Christological identification within an analogy, not advice to ingest a tincture or an instruction to reproduce its hue.