01-19-2004, 10:53 AM
I came across an article today whch suggests there is a wordplay in Luke14:34-35.
Without salt, the land will be unable to produce any fruit. A parallel version of this statement is found in Luke 14:34-35 "Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile; it is thrown out. "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
The Aramaic lying behind the Greek words meaning ???for the ground??? and ???for dung??? respectively would be le???ar???a and lere???a Jesus uses a play on words to demonstrate that it is the fertilizing or life-giving quality of salt that is in mind and our Lord means to say that this disciples, the ???sons of the Kingdom??? are life-givers among men. They possess within themselves a fructifying or generating power which mankind generally does not possess. The Gospel from the Mount ??? John Wick Bowman & Roland W. Tapp Westminster Press pg. 51
the article is here.
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Without salt, the land will be unable to produce any fruit. A parallel version of this statement is found in Luke 14:34-35 "Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile; it is thrown out. "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
The Aramaic lying behind the Greek words meaning ???for the ground??? and ???for dung??? respectively would be le???ar???a and lere???a Jesus uses a play on words to demonstrate that it is the fertilizing or life-giving quality of salt that is in mind and our Lord means to say that this disciples, the ???sons of the Kingdom??? are life-givers among men. They possess within themselves a fructifying or generating power which mankind generally does not possess. The Gospel from the Mount ??? John Wick Bowman & Roland W. Tapp Westminster Press pg. 51
the article is here.
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