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St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925
Rule 266: What is the Salt Which the Lord Ordered Us to Have When He Said, Have Salt in…
Here also the sense is plain from the context of each passage. D For in the Lord’s words we are taught to give no occasion of disunion and dissension among ourselves, but always to be kept in the bond of peace to gain the unity of the spirit. But in the apostle’s words any one remembering the words of him who said: ‘“Shall bread be eaten without salt? Is there any taste in vain words? ’3 will be taught to dispense his words to the edifying of faith, “that he may give grace to the hearers ’4 using an opportune time and a proper order, to the end that the hearers may become more docile.
Notes
- Mk. ix. 50.
- Col. iv. 6.
- Job vi. 6.
- Eph. iv. 29.