Matthew 5:13
Douay-Rheims
You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt lose its savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is good for nothing any more but to be cast out, and to be trodden on by men.
Hilary of Poitiers
And because man is ever liable to change, He therefore warns the Apostles, who have been entitled the salt of the earth, to continue stedfast in the might of the power committed to them, when He adds, If the salt have lost its savour, wherewith shall it be salted?
Source details
A.D. 367 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 5:13
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.