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Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another."
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The Salt is an Inner Grace
Commentators explain that the "salt" Jesus speaks of here is primarily an internal, spiritual quality. Unlike its use in Matthew to describe the church's external influence, here it refers to the inward grace of God that purifies a believer's heart from corrupt affections like pride and selfish ambition.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Lost his saltness, etc. See Barnes on Matthew 5:13.
Have salt in yourselves. Have the preserving, purifying principle alwa…
Have salt in yourselves (εχετε εν εαυτοις αλα). Jesus had once called them the salt of the earth (Matthew 5:13) and ha…
19th Century
Anglican
Salt is good.—See Note on Matthew 5:13. There, however, the primary reference of the words is to the visible community of…
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16th Century
Protestant
Have salt in yourselves. This phrase may be understood in a different sense from its meaning in the previous verse. It can signify that se…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Salt is good To make meat savoury, and keep flesh from corrupting; and so is the grace of God, to season men's heart…
It is repeatedly said of the wicked, Their worm dieth not, as well as, The fire is never quenched. Undoubtedly, remorse of consci…
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