The Scottish expression We're a' Jock Tamson's Bairns can be translated into English as :
We're all God's Children.
The expression is thought to have been coined in honour of an early nineteenth-century Scottish preacher called John Thomson.
John, or Jock, would apparently refer to his congregation gently as ma bairns before, presumably, enveloping them with fire and brimstone in order to convey the wrath of the Lord on their pathetic, ill-deserving souls.
Presumably.
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