Matthew Poole and continuators on Leviticus 2:13

13 And every oblation of thy meat-offering shalt thou season with salt , neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat-offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.

Either 1. for the decency and conveniency of the feast, which God would have here represented. Or 2. for the signification of that incorruption of mind and sincerity of grace, which in Scripture is signified by salt, Mark 9. 49. Col. 4. 6. and which is necessary in all them that would offer an acceptable offering to God. Or 3. in testimony of that communion which they had with God in these exercises of his worship: salt being the great symbol of friendship in all nations and ages.

So salt is called, either 1. because it fitly represented the durableness and perpetuity of Gods covenant with them, which is designed by salt, Numb. 18. 19. 2 Chron. 13. 5. Or 2. because it was so particularly and rigorously required as a condition of their covenant with God, this being made absolutely necessary in all their offerings, as it follows, and as the neglect of sacrifices was a breach of covenant on their part, so also was the neglect of salt in their sacrifices.

Not these onely, but all other, as appears from Eccl. 43. 24. Mark 9. 49.

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