That’s an excellent analogy, thanks.
Shelves of religious books... hmmm, sounds like more than just a few Bibles and lexicons. All those teachings, yet the place was veritable dead zone.
Perhaps he was feeding on [religious] bread made without salt.
Matthew 5
13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
The role of salt in bread-making:
http://www.kingarthurflour.com/professional/salt.html
NaCl, ionic bonds, covenant of salt, house of bread (Bethlehem).
The Galilee verses the Dead Sea (literally the sea of salt),
There must be a riddle in here as far as living (running, flowing) water:
James 3:11 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
James 3:12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? ***so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh***.
Well actually, tears are very productive (healing, restorative) and very much alive (they move, flow).
The wells of the eyes produce salt water that *is* for the healing of the nations. Same for work (perspiration, exertion) that is not any work at all if it is love.
Interesting factoid:
Sodium Chloride solubility: 358 g/l at 20 °C (source: Material Safety Data Sheet)
(358 = Mashiach)
>>>They had no holes in the bottom, so the water that went in ***could not come out***. The potting mixture soon became stale and poisoned anything that was planted in it.<<<
