Patristic
“The oblation of the Lord is the race of man, which is here salted by means of wisdom, whilst the corruption of blood, the nurse of rottenness, and the mother of worms, is being consumed, which there also shall he tried by the purgatorial firem.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Mark, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Mark 9:43-50
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1842) ↗