According to the Salt Association, Roman soldiers were partly paid in salt. It is said to be from this that we get the word soldier – ‘sal dare’, meaning to give salt. From the same source we get the word salary, ‘salarium’.
Other sources disagree with this and call it a myth.
Whether it is true or not, Jesus, in today’s gospel puts a LOT of emphasis upon the importance of salt.
Salt is used for many purposes:
Preservative. Adding taste. Cleansing.
Rosemond Anaba says:
Salt, no matter how small in quantity,
has the ability to change the taste of food
just as light, no matter how small the flicker is,
has the ability to overcome darkness.
Sam Korankye Ankrah:
The prophet healed the bitter waters of Jericho with a token of salt.
You represent the salt which God wants to use
to change your family, your society and situation.
In Matthew 5:13 Jesus said, You are the salt of the earth.
You must be an agent of change, taste and influence wherever you find yourself.
John R. W. Stott:
“God intends us to penetrate the world.
Christian salt has no business to remain snugly in elegant little ecclesiastical salt cellars;
our place is to be rubbed into the secular community,
as salt is rubbed into meat, to stop it going bad.
And when society does go bad, we Christians tend to throw up our hands in pious horror and reproach the non-Christian world;
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