"SALT, IN OLD AND NEW COVENANT".
In Old Testament times, salt symbolised hospitality, durability, and purity.
To eat the salt of the king, was to owe him the utmost fidelity. To eat bread and salt together was to form an unbreakable league of friendship. (Crudens).
Salt emblematic of fidelity and friendship in the eastern nations.
Also emblem of the covenant between Jehovah and His people (Num.18:19) (2Chron.13:5).
To have salt in the self, brings peace between people. (Mark 9:50).
It also counteracts worldly corruption. (Matt. 5:13).
Every food offering by the Jews was to contain it, (Lev. 2:13).
The fact of the formation of friendship, which is so precious to the Almighty, by the salt and bread participation (bread [manna] in the wilderness) and the salt in the sacrifices, gives more insight to the plan of Jehovah for His people Israel, (see reference above). Abraham and Moses in the Old Covenant were called "friend", (Ex.33:11) (James 2:23) (2 Chr. 20:7) and (Isa. 41:8), but Christ laid down His life for His friend (Israel who had lost its salt!) (John, 15:13).
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