Ye are the salt of the earth] Ye should be savoury in your selves, and, by good exhortations, help to season others with the salt of grace, that they may be pleasing to God, as savoury met is to us, Col. 4. 6. with Eph. 4. 29. but if the salt] Mak 9. 50. Luke 14:34. It may be understood of ministers, or of private Christians, who are spoken o before and after. have lost his savour] Gr. become foolish. A metaphor from men. If ye have no grace in you. wherewith shall it be salted?] As nothing else ca recover the taste of salt lost: so bad ministers cannot be easily mended by others; nor Christians neither: for how should bad Christians be amended by those who want that grace that they should have? good for nothing] Other things may be good for somewhat else when they decay, salt cannot: so is it with bad ministers and Christians. to be cast out] Out of the house: so ye out of the Church. to be trodden under feet] As not good so much as to be laid up in a dunghill, Luke 14:35. So shall ye be most vile in the eyes of others, Luke 21:24.