aiki
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Mark 9:49
Everyone will be salted with fire.
Mark 9:49
49 "For everyone will be salted with fire.
A difficult verse, no doubt. And so, it has been the source of much speculation and theorizing. I recall Paul's comments in 1 Corinthians 3:11-15 and the words of the prophet in Malachi 3:2, as you have. The two sections of Scripture shed some useful light, I think, on what Jesus was saying. It also helps to know something of the Levitical practices concerning sacrifices. The JFB Bible Commentary explains:
"The reference to salting the sacrifice is of course to that maxim of the Levitical law, that every acceptable sacrifice must be sprinkled with salt, to express symbolically its soundness, sweetness, wholesomeness, acceptability. But as it had to be roasted first, we have here the further idea of a salting with fire. In this case, "every sacrifice," in the next clause, will mean, "Every one who would be found an acceptable offering to God"; and thus the whole verse may perhaps be paraphrased as follows: "Every disciple of Mine shall have a fiery trial to undergo, and everyone who would be found an odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable and well-pleasing to God, must have such a salting, like the Levitical sacrifices."
(A Commentary: Critical, Experimental, and Practical on the Old and New Testaments - Jamieson, Fawcett and Brown).
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