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For
SAILORS
see
MARINERS
SAINT(S)
(
?
, 40), for the meaning and use of which see
HOLY
, B, No. 1, is used as a
noun in the singular in Phil. 4:21, where
, “every,” is used with it. In the plural, as
used of believers, it designates all such and is not applied merely to persons of
exceptional holiness, or to those who, having died, were characterized by exceptional acts
of “saintliness.” See especially 2 Thess. 1:10, where “His saints” are also described as
“them that believed,” i.e., the whole number of the redeemed. They are called “holy
ones” in Jude 14,
RV
. For the term as applied to the Holy Spirit see
HOLY SPIRIT
. See also
SANCTIFY
.
Notes:
(1) In Rev. 15:3 the
RV
follows those texts which have
, “ages,” and
assigns the reading
, “nations,” to the margin; the
KJV
translates those which have
the inferior reading
, “saints,” and puts “nations” and “ages” in the margin. (2) In
Rev. 18:20, the best texts have
and
, each with the article, each being
preceeded by
, “and,”
RV
, “and ye saints, and ye apostles”; the
KJV
, “and ye holy
apostles” follows those mss. from which the 2nd
and the article are absent. (3) In
Rev. 22:21, the
RV
follows those mss. which have
, with the article,“(with) the
saints”; the
KJV
those which simply have
, “all,” but adds “you” (
RV
, marg., “with
all”).
For
SAKE (for the)
see
†
, p. 1
SALT (Noun, Adjective and Verb), SALTNESS
A. Noun.
(
?
, 251), a late form of
(found in some mss. in Mark 9:49), is used (a)
literally in Matt. 5:13 (2nd part); Mark 9:50 (1st part, twice); Luke 14:34 (twice); (b)
metaphorically, of “believers,” Matt. 5:13 (1st part); of their “character and condition,”
Mark 9:50 (2nd part); of “wisdom” exhibited in their speech, Col.4:6.¶
Being possessed of purifying, perpetuating and antiseptic qualities, “salt” became
emblematic of fidelity and friendship among eastern nations. To eat of a person’s “salt”
and so to share his hospitality is still regarded thus among the Arabs. So in Scripture, it is
an emblem of the covenant between God and His people, Num. 18:19; 2 Chron. 13:5; so
again when the Lord says “Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace one with another”
(Mark 9:50). In the Lord’s teaching it is also symbolic of that spiritual health and vigor
essential to Christian virtue and counteractive of the corruption that is in the world, e.g.,
Matt. 5:13, see (b) above. Food is seasoned with “salt” (see B); every meal offering was
to contain it, and it was to be offered with all offerings presented by Israelites, as
emblematic of the holiness of Christ, and as betokening the reconciliation provided for
man by God on the ground of the death of Christ, Lev. 2:13. To refuse God’s provision in
†
Indicates that the word referred to (preposition, conjunction, or particle) is not dealt
with in this volume.