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Luke 14:34
Salt is good; but if the salt have lost its savor, wherewith. shall it be seasoned?
Salt is good; but if the salt have lost its savor, wherewith. shall it be seasoned?
Verse Luke 14:34. _SALT_ IS _GOOD_] Matthew 5:13, and Mark 9:50. ON the subject referred to this place from Luke 14:23,
See the Matthew 5:13 note; Mark 9:49 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 ins...
CHAPTER 14 _ 1. The Man with the Dropsy Healed on the Sabbath. (Luke 14:1)_ 2. The Wisdom of Humility. (Luke 14:7) 3. Recompensed in Resurrection. (Luke 14:12) 4. The Parable of the Great Supper. ...
DISCIPLESHIP AND ITS COST. The passage is a reminder that, despite the universality of the Kingdom, the number of its true subjects is small. To the crowd that is following Him Jesus applies a stringe...
Jesus said, "Salt is a fine thing; but if salt has become insipid, by what means shall its taste be restored? It is fit neither for the land nor the dunghill. Men throw it out. He who has an ear to he...
UNDER THE SCRUTINY OF HOSTILE MEN (Luke 14:1-6)...
SALT, &c. See note on Matthew 5:13. IF, &c.. contingent assumption. App-118. LOST HIS SAVOUR. become tasteless. Compare Matthew 5:13. WHEREWITH. with _(Greek. en_ App-104.) what. SEASONED. Only her...
Luke 9:51 to Luke 18:31_. Rejected by the Samaritans. A lesson of Tolerance._ This section forms a great episode in St Luke, which may be called the departure for the final conflict, and is identical...
_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...
ΚΑΛῸΝ ΟΥ̓͂Ν ΤῸ ἍΛΑΣ, the true reading (_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 sa...
LESSONS OF WHOLE-HEARTEDNESS, AND OF COUNTING THE COST; THE TOWER-BUILDER; THE WARRING KING; THE SAVOURLESS SALT...
CHAPS. Luke 9:51 to Luke 18:31 This section forms a great episode in St Luke, which may be called the departure for the final conflict, and is identical with the journey (probably to the Feast of the...
VER 34. SALT IS GOOD: BUT IF THE SALT HAVE LOST HIS SAVOR, WHEREWITH SHALL IT BE SEASONED? 35. IT IS NEITHER FIT FOR THE LAND, NOR YET FOR THE DUNGHILL; BUT MEN CAST IT OUT. HE THAT HAS EARS TO HEAR,...
_THE COST OF DISCIPLESHIP -- LUKE 14:25-35:_ Large crowds often accompanied Jesus as He traveled about. Jesus taught the cost of discipleship saying, "If any man come to me, and hate not his father, a...
ΟΎΝ (G3767) быть уверенным (DM, 255). ΆΛΑΣ (G217) соль; _см._ Evans о метафоре соли, ΜΩΡΑΝΘΉ _aor. conj. pass. от_ ΜΩΡΑΊΝΩ (G3471) делать бессмысленным, бесполезным (Matthew 5:13; Marshall). _Conj._...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 4 Grounded (Luke 14:25-35) 25 Now great multitudes accompanied him; and he turned and said to them, 26If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and...
Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned? SALT IS GOOD: BUT IF THE SALT HAVE LOST HIS SAVOUR ... HE THAT HATH EARS TO HEAR, LET HIM HEAR. See the note at...
10 Compare Pro_25:6-7. 12 The pure joy of giving is largely lost when it degenerates into a trade. Yet it seems from this that we cannot give without being recompensed. If we give to get we may, indee...
THE DROPSICAL MAN. THE GREAT SUPPER. DIVERS SAYINGS AND PARABLES 1-6. The sabbath question again. The man with the dropsy healed (peculiar to Lk)....
THAT WE MUST GIVE UP ALL TO FOLLOW CHRIST, AND COUNT THE COST BEFORE WE DO SO. The two parables of the Rash Builder (Luke 14:28) and the Rash King (Luke 14:31) are peculiar to Lk. The multitude who fo...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 14 JESUS *HEALS A MAN ON THE *SABBATH 14:1-6 V1 One *Sabbath, Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the more important *Pharisees. They were watch...
SALT IS GOOD. — The words are all but identical with those of Matthew 5:13, and resemble those of Mark 9:50. (See Notes on those passages.) They appear now, however, in a very different context, and t...
_The saying concerning salt_ (Matthew 5:13; Mark 9:50). This _logion_ may have been repeatedly uttered by Jesus, but it does not seem to be so appropriate here as in its place in Mk. In this place the...
_Concio ad populum_. Jesus now appears on the way, and followed by “many multitudes” (ὄχλοι πολλοί, Luke 14:25) to whom He speaks. Thus sayings which in Mt. and Mk. form part of disciple-instruction ...
THE COST OF DISCIPLESHIP Luke 14:25-35 Here we have our Lord's use of the winnowing-fan. Amid the teeming crowds He knew that there were many light and superficial souls who had not realized the cos...
Nothing escaped the notice of Jesus. He saw the guests in the house, and their method of procedure in seeking the chief seats. As He watched, He enunciated two great truths of social application. Firs...
(7) Salt [is] good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned? (7) The disciples of Christ must be wise, both for themselves and for others: otherwise they become the most...
_But if the salt, &c. Man, after he has once been illumined with the light of faith, should he be so unfortunate as to fall into the sink of his former evil habits, what remedy is there remaining for...
HEALING OF PETER'S MOTHER-IN-LAW Matthew 8:14-17; Mark 1:2-34; & Luke 14:3-35 Mark: “And immediately coming out of the synagogue? came into the house of Simon and Andrew and James and John. The mother...
THE SALT Luke 14:34-35. “ _Therefore salt is good_, _but if indeed the salt may lose its savor_, _with what shall it be salted_? _It is neither fit for the land nor the manure-heap. They cast it out....
_The Application of those two Parables, with a new Figure confirming it._ “ _So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple._ 34. _Salt is good: but...
4. _A Warning against hasty Professions: Luke 14:25-35_. The journey resumes its course; great crowds follow Jesus. There is consequently an attraction to His side. This appears in the plurals ὄχλοι,...
And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient...
Some moral details are unfolded in the next chapter (14). [37] The Lord, being invited to eat with a Pharisee, vindicates the rights of grace over that which was the seal of the old covenant, judging...
SALT IS GOOD,.... Matthew 5:13, Mark 10:50....
Salt _is_ good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned? Ver. 34. _Salt is good_] This was a sentence much in our Saviour's mouth, Matthew 5:13; Mark 9:50; and is here us...
_Salt is good_ If you are not my disciples indeed, your outward profession will be very insignificant: for, though salt in general is a good thing, and my servants, as I formerly intimated (see on Mat...
SALT IS GOOD; to season provisions, and perserve them from putrefaction. In the present connection, salt means divine grace manifested in a spirit of self-denial for Christ's sake. this brings salvati...
EATING IN THE PHARISEE'S HOUSE (vs.1-14) This chapter shows the heart of God in seeking man, yet also man in thorough contrast and opposition to God. One of the chief Pharisees invited the Lord Jesu...
25-35 Though the disciples of Christ are not all crucified, yet they all bear their cross, and must bear it in the way of duty. Jesus bids them count upon it, and then consider of it. Our Saviour exp...
Ver. 34,35. SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 5:13". SEE POOLE ON "MARK 9:50", where we met with the most of what we have in these verses. By SALT in this place our Saviour seemeth to mean a Christian life and pr...
Origen Against Celsus Book VIII and society is held together as long as the salt is uncorrupted: for "if the salt have lost its savour, it is neither fit for the land nor for the dunghill; but it sha...
Luke 14:34 Salt G217 good G2570 but G1161 if G1437 salt G217 flavor G3471 (G5686) how G1722...
“Salt therefore is good, but if even the salt has lost its savour (literally ‘if it become foolish'), with what shall it be seasoned. It is fit neither for the land nor for the dunghill. Men cast it o...
THE CALL TO DISCIPLESHIP (14:25-35). Luke closes this section off as he opened it by showing Jesus as challenging His disciples and His would be disciples to consider what was involved in what they we...
Luke 14:34. SALT THEREFORE IS GOOD. ‘Therefore' connects this favorite aphorism with what precedes. It is good then to be my disciple, in the way of self-renunciation, and thus to be the means of cons...
THE discourse was delivered, on the way to Jerusalem, probably very shortly after the meal in the Pharisee's house (Luke 14:1-24). The _place_ was therefore Perea, and the _time_ one of the three days...
THIS division of the Gospel of Luke, embracing nearly one third of the whole, contains for the most part matter peculiar to this Evangelist. A number of the incidents probably belong to an earlier per...
Luke 14:34 I. What is it in the spiritual life which answers to the influence of salt in the natural life? I answer: A certain deep, secret power of the Spirit of God, acting generally through the wor...
Luke 14:25. _And there went great multitudes with him:_ During at least a part of his earthly ministry, Christ was very popular. The people crowded to his feet, and they were willing to make him a ki...
CONTENTS: Jesus heals on the Sabbath. Parable of the ambitious guest. Parable of the great supper. Parable of the tower, of the king going to war, and of the savorless salt. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Pharis...
Luke 14:3. _Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day._ When customs are good, let us keep them; but when they are burthensome and inconsistent, the Saviour refused submission to the traditions of men....
SALT IS GOOD. See notes on Matthew 5:13; Mark 9:50. The Christian is the salt of the earth. The _taste_ is the spirit of love, good will, and self-sacrifice. One who does not have this _spirit_ is wor...
_Salt is good_ SALT THAT IS GENUINE, AND SALT THAT IS SALTLESS Among the substances that enter into the composition of this globe of earth, salt is a very important one, being of essential use in th...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 14:34 IF SALT HAS LOST ITS TASTE. Most salt came from the Dead Sea and contained impurities. If not processed properly, it would have a poor taste and be unusable for food. If the co...
JESUS TEACHES ABOUT THE SALTINESS OF FAITH MATTHEW 5:13; MARK 9:49-50; LUKE 14:34-35; MARK 9:49 For every one shall be salted with fire, and every
CHAPTER 14 VER. 1. _And it came to pass that He went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees_. "To do them service," says Titus, "Christ makes Himself their friend, and, as it were, one of their...
_Salt is good, but if the salt have lost his savour_, &c. Salt is good as long as it retains its peculiar properties. So also ye who are my Apostles, as long as ye preserve your spiritual powers, will...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 14:25. THERE WENT WITH HIM.—_I.e._, journeyed with Him; many, if not most, of them being on their way to one of the feasts in Jerusalem. The multitudes were attracted by Christ’s...
EXPOSITION LUKE 14:1 _The Pharisee_'_s feast on a sabbath day. The healing of the sick with dropsy._ LUKE 14:1 AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS HE WENT INTO THE HOUSE OF ONE OF THE CHIEF PHARISEES TO EAT B...
Shall we turn in our Bibles now to the gospel according to Luke, chapter 14. The fourteenth chapter involves an invitation for Jesus to come to a supper on the Sabbath day and of the things that trans...
Colossians 4:6; Hebrews 2:4; Mark 9:49; Mark 9:50; Matthew 5:13...
Have lost its savor. See on Matthew 5:34. Shall it be seasoned. See on Mark 9:50....
Salt — Every Christian, but more eminently every minister. Matthew 5:13; Mark 9:50....
Our Saviour here compares his disciples to salt, thereby denoting their usefulness, salt being one of the most useful things in nature; and pointing out also their duty, which is to season themselves...