The Covenant of Salt / As Based on the Significance and Symbolism of Salt in Primitive Thought

by H. Clay Trumbull

[141] Buxtorf ex Talmud.

[142] Ibid., cap. xii.

[143] Dr. Kohler states that the reason for not throwing these fragments on the ground, is because the Jews would not disgrace what is regarded as a special gift of God.

[144] Because meat and milk are never to be eaten together. See p. [62], supra. (Exod. 23 : 19; 34 : 26; Deut. 14 : 21.)

[145] Buxtorf ex Talmud, cap. xii.

[146] Dacier's Life of Pythagoras, p. 116.

[147] Lev. 19 : 9, 10; Deut. 24 : 19-21.

[148] Matt. 15 : 27.

[149] Bingham's Antiquities of the Christian Church, Book X., Chap. 2; Smith and Cheetham's Dictionary of Christian Antiquities, arts. "Catehumens," "Salt."

[150] St. Augustine's Treatise on Forgiveness of Sins and Baptism, II., 46.