“Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.”
Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? Have salt among yourselves, and be at peace with each other — the salt saying concludes the chapter and provides a bridge from the fire imagery to the community exhortation. Salt is good — its preserving, flavoring, purifying properties are genuinely valuable. But salt that has lost its saltiness is useless — it cannot restore itself. Have salt among yourselves is the call for the disciples to maintain the genuine, preserving qualities of the kingdom community: the willingness to serve the lowest, to welcome the child, to not cause stumbling. And be at peace with each other is the chapter's practical conclusion: the greatness argument of verse 34 is to end.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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