Luke 14:34 — Community Reflections

LUKE 14:34 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

“Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?”

Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? — the salt saying addresses the potential of the disciple to lose their distinctive character. Salt that has lost its saltiness is the figure for the disciple who has abandoned the costly commitment — the nothing left to add flavor.

Church Fathers on Luke 14:34

He had said above that the tower of virtue was not only to be begun, but also to be completed, and to this belongs the following, Salt is good. It is a good thing to season the secrets of the heart with the salt of spiritual wisdom, nay with the Apostles to become the salt of the earth. For salt in substance consists of water and air, having a slight mixture of earth, but it dries up the fluent nature of corrupt bodies so as to preserve e them from decay. Fitly then He…
Bede · 8th century

But not only those who are gifted with the grace of teachers, but private individuals also He requires to become like salt, useful to those around them. But if’ he who is to be useful to others becomes reprobate, he cannot be profited, as it follows, But if the salt has lost his savor, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
Theophylact · 11th century

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