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 the earth," Matthew 5:13. "Have salt in yourselves," Mark 9:50. Here the salt is the inward energy of holiness and devotion, and in the fate of salt which has lost its savour we see the peril which ensues from neglectof the previous lessons.

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