Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse IV · §2

The salt of the earth

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You are the salt of the earth (Matthew 5:13). But if the salt has lost its savor, with what shall it be salted? It is from then on good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under foot by people. Matthew 5:13.

1771 text

Ye are the salt of the earth. But if the salt hath lost its savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and trodden under foot of men.

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Catalogue & scope

Sermon 24 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 5:13-16.

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