Abinadi said, in effect, that he would seal his testimony with his blood rather than recant that testimony, and in so doing he would become a martyr for the truth. The term martyr is a Greek loan word that originally meant “witness.” Such witnesses were willing to give all they possessed for the kingdom of God. In the early Christian period such resolve gave rise to the famous statement of Tertullian: “The blood of martyrs is the seed of the church.”