From: perry.stepp@chrysalis.org
Date: Sat Oct 07 1995 - 18:33:46 EDT
A bit of interesting marginalia regarding salt that has lost its savor--
Lk 14.34: "Salt is good, but if even it loses its saltiness . . ." (KALON OUN
TO hALAC EAN DE KAI TO hALAC MWRANQH). Marshall (NIGNTC) explains the use of
MWRANQH (from MWROC, "foolish") by noting that the Hebrew *tafal* means both "a
lack of saltiness" and "foolishness" (see Job 1.6, 22; Job 24.12; Jer 23.13).
>From this I surmise that there was some kind of proverbial association between
salty salt and wisdom.
Grace and peace,
Perry L. Stepp, Baylor University
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : Sat Apr 20 2002 - 15:37:28 EDT