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 conserving spiritual life among men, just as salt does in the natural world ; but if even the salt, which is very unnatural and unlikely, have lost its savor, if my disciple through a return to selfishness loses this peculiarity, where-with shall it be seasoned? Our Lord is warning from a human point of view, and not giving prominence to His own Almighty sustaining power, as in passages like John 10:28-29. The same remark applies to Luke 14:29.

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Old Testament