RT Article
T1 “Salting with Fire” (Mark 9:49)
JF Novum Testamentum
VO 62
IS 4
SP 361
OP 374
A1 Doran, Robert M. 1939-
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1733971777
AB At Mark 9:49, the verb ἁλίζω is translated as “to salt, season”: “For everyone will be salted with fire.” No satisfactory explanation has been given of what “salting with fire” means. Here, the author suggests that the other meaning of the same verb be taken: “to collect, gather”: “For everyone will be gathered by fire.” Before the final division into those who go to Gehenna or to heaven, the work of everyone will be examined by fire, similar to what is said in 1 Cor 3:13, to see where they should go. This is the meaning found in patristic commentators on this verse.
K1 collect/gather
K1 SALT
K1 salted
K1 salting
DO 10.1163/15685365-12341673