Matthew 5:13 You are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his flavor, with which shall it be salted? it is thereafter good for nothing… Maundrell, who visited the lake at Jebbful, tells us that he found salt there which had entirely "lost his savour," and the same abounds among the debris at Usdum, and in other localities of rock-salt at the south end of the:Dead Sea. It is a well-known fact that the salt of this country, if left long in contact with the ground, does become insipid and tasteless. From the manner in which it is gathered, much earth and other impurities are necessarily collected with it. Not a little of it is so impure that it cannot be used at all, and such Bali soon effloresces and turns to dust — not to fruitful soil, however. It is not only " good for nothing," but it actually destroys all fertility wherever it is thrown; and this is the reason why it is cast into the street, to be " trodden under the foot of men." (W. M. Thomson, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. |
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