Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
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See the Mat 5:13 note; Mar 9:49-50 notes. Salt is good - It is useful. It is good to preserve life and health, and to keep from putrefaction. His savour - Its saltness. It becomes tasteless or…
Adam Clarke
Salt is good - See on Mat 5:13 (note), and Mar 9:50 (note).
On the subject referred to this place from Luk 14:23, Compel them to come in, which has been adduced to favor religious persecution, I find…
See how Christ in his doctrine suited himself to those to whom he spoke, and gave every one his portion of meat. To Pharisees he preached humility and charity. He is in these verses directing his…
Cambridge Bible
Salt is good The true reading is Salt therefore is good,connecting this verse with what has gone before. This similitude was thrice used by Christ with different applications. "Ye are the salt of the…