God bless you

Numbers 6:24), and by Christians, since the time of the early Church as a benediction, as well as a means of bidding a person Godspeed.

[8] In the Aaronic blessing, "Invoking the name of the Lord in this benediction transferred the name, the identity and presence, of God onto his people.

[9][3] In the periodical Christianity Today, the philosopher Dallas Willard wrote:[3] Blessing is the projection of good into the life of another.

[3]National Geographic reports that during the Roman Plague of 590, "Pope Gregory I ordered unceasing prayer for divine intercession.

[16] The Irish Folk story "Master and Man" by Thomas Crofton Croker, collected by William Butler Yeats, describes this variation.

The locution God bless you forms a part of many Christian benedictions, such as this Lutheran priest offering a benediction at the conclusion of the Divine Service .