βληθῆναι (blethenai) in Matthew 5:13: Verb Aorist Passive Infinitive
βληθῆναι (blethenai) in Matthew 5:13
Textual Witness
The witness reads βληθῆναι in Matthew 5:13.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
Moves the warning from lost usefulness to disposal.
How To Communicate It
Use it to explain the disposal outcome after the usefulness statement.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Keep the form tied to Matthew 5:13.
- Do not detach it from the except phrase in Matthew 5:13.
- Do not use morphology alone to build a complete doctrinal claim.
What Does The Label Mean?
Verb: the form names an action, state, or verbal relationship in the clause.
Aorist: read the tense and aspect from this occurrence, with the sentence controlling the exact force.
Passive: voice should be read from the morphology label and clause context.
Infinitive: mood should serve the sentence rather than override it.
Person: not directly marked in this non-finite form.
Not applicable: this verb form is not using noun case to mark its sentence role.
Number: read number only where the morphology label marks it.
Not applicable: this verb form does not use grammatical gender to make its point.
What The Form Does In This Verse
Outside
The except phrase in Matthew 5:13
Names the first outcome for salt that is no longer useful.
Do not make the infinitive alone describe the whole judgment scene apart from the metaphor.
How Much The Form Matters Here
Medium: disposal image
Passive disposal infinitive. states what remains for useless salt. Attached to outside. Governed by the except phrase in Matthew 5:13. Read with except to be thrown outside.
What remains for the useless salt? Within the image, it is only fit to be thrown outside.
Direct: The form supports to be thrown.
This occurrence must be read within Matthew 5:13, not as a standalone word study.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
The witness reads βληθῆναι in Matthew 5:13.
The lemma means to cast or throw, and here it describes discarded salt in the image.
The passive infinitive follows except and points to what remains for useless salt.
The image says the salt is fit only to be thrown outside.
The form carries the warning forward while keeping the imagery concrete.
Use it to explain the disposal outcome after the usefulness statement.
Do not build a full eschatological timeline from the infinitive form alone.