the σκώληξ and πῦ͂ρ. The question of the eternity of punishment does not come into sight. The ‘Western’ and Syrian texts add these words as a refrain to vv. 43, 45; see app. crit. supra.. 49. πᾶς γὰρ πυρὶ ἁλισθήσεται] ‘Fire, I said, for with fire shall every man be salted.’ The ‘Western’ gloss πᾶσα γὰρ (or καὶ πᾶσα) θυσία ἁλὶ ἁλισθήσεται rightly seeks an explanation in Lev. 2:13 (πᾶν δῶρον θυσίας ὑμῶν ἁλὶ ἁλισθήσεται). The sacrificial salt was the symbol of a covenant-relation