every one shall be salted with fire. Occurs only here in N.T.
every sacrifice, &c. Some texts omit this clause, but not the Syriac Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 2:13). This is intro duced by "For", as. reason why the lesser (finite and temporal) evil is "good" compared with the greater (and final) evil. Every sacrifice is salted (to assist the burning), Deuteronomy 29:23. It is better therefore to endurethe removal of the stumbling-block now, than to be altogether destroyed for ever.