Proper usage of the word 'race'

legal definition: a Clan family of the same lineage and inheritance.

Dear friends in Christ,

I want to share with you the proper usage of the word "race", which was more common in days gone by.
Examples abound, and I being a member of the Clan MacGregor, of course will recall, the Motto of our Clan plainly states: "My race is Royal" (‘S RIOGHAL MO DHREAM)

You can take another example from the below history: "Sir George Neville anticipated with proud joy a restoration of the fallen race of Warwick, and regarded himself already as another king-maker of that house."

From "The fortunes of Perkin Warbeck"

In the older laws, the definition of "race" was more clear (as also taught in any University), race meant a Clan family of the same lineage and inheritance. However, you could be totally not part of the same Clan or tribe, but look identical to those thousands of miles away, or half a continent. In laws for land claim to inheritance, the records always go back to prove 10 generations married from said lineage. This was very Biblical and not a foreign concept to any church anywhere in the world. Few governments obeyed it, and those ones were the most blessed who did (known as Christendom).
When you talk about the new definition today that's something else, which is more about types or species of mankind, which has nothing to do with the original word for race. Now the word has been mis-used to refer to different physical characteristics.

Lets get back to proper usage of these important legal terms of churches and nations.

Kind regards and Greetings in the Precious Name of Jesus Christ,

Rev Dr Stephen MK Brunswick
St Andrew’s OCC
https://st-andrewsocc.org