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.
To properly understand we must always consider the source and the primary audience (Jews) at the Sermon on the Mount.
Summarized from a Creative Commons source, Baruch Korman:
We are familiar with salt to enhance taste and to preserve food. The meaning here is taken from it being forbidden to eat blood ( Genesis 9:4; Leviticus 3:17). After slaughter and hanging the meat to drain, it was salted to draw out the remaining blood. Once it was used it no longer would work and was thrown out. Likewise, being the "the salt of the earth" we have been given a purpose and if we do not serve the LORD of what use are we?
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.
To properly understand we must always consider the source and the primary audience (Jews) at the Sermon on the Mount.
Summarized from a Creative Commons source, Baruch Korman:
We are familiar with salt to enhance taste and to preserve food. The meaning here is taken from it being forbidden to eat blood ( Genesis 9:4; Leviticus 3:17). After slaughter and hanging the meat to drain, it was salted to draw out the remaining blood. Once it was used it no longer would work and was thrown out. Likewise, being the "the salt of the earth" we have been given a purpose and if we do not serve the LORD of what use are we?
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