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We see in [[Exodus 12]] that the Passover would require that the bread eaten would have to be unleavened bread. The word for "unleavened bread or cake" is ''matstsah''<Ref name="matstsah">{{04682}}</Ref> MemZtadikHey but the word in verse 15 is ''maṣṣōwṯ'' (מַצּ֣וֹת) MemZtadik[[Vav]][[Tav]]. In fact the casual reading of the text by verse 19 there are those that believe that anyone who "eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the [[congregation]] of Israel" | |||
Most commentaries are explaining that ''leaven'' was regarded as produced by corruption as is suggested in [[Exodus 23]]:18. But have the people unmoored the meaning of the ritual making the practices of leaven and unleavend bread into a form of [[idolatry]] by worshiping the symbols of corruption. | |||
"Paul twice quotes the saying, ‘A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump’ ([[1 Corinthians 5]]:6, [[Galatians 5]]:9), with reference to moral corruption: and in [[1 Corinthians 5]]:7-8, with evident reference to the injunction here, bids Christians ‘clear away the old leaven,’ and ‘keep the feast’ of their Passover, Christ (i.e. live the Christian life), with the ‘unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.’"<Ref>Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</Ref> | |||
Revision as of 20:58, 23 January 2023
Leaven
We see in Exodus 12 that the Passover would require that the bread eaten would have to be unleavened bread. The word for "unleavened bread or cake" is matstsah[1] MemZtadikHey but the word in verse 15 is maṣṣōwṯ (מַצּ֣וֹת) MemZtadikVavTav. In fact the casual reading of the text by verse 19 there are those that believe that anyone who "eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel"
Most commentaries are explaining that leaven was regarded as produced by corruption as is suggested in Exodus 23:18. But have the people unmoored the meaning of the ritual making the practices of leaven and unleavend bread into a form of idolatry by worshiping the symbols of corruption.
"Paul twice quotes the saying, ‘A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump’ (1 Corinthians 5:6, Galatians 5:9), with reference to moral corruption: and in 1 Corinthians 5:7-8, with evident reference to the injunction here, bids Christians ‘clear away the old leaven,’ and ‘keep the feast’ of their Passover, Christ (i.e. live the Christian life), with the ‘unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.’"[2]
Jesus used the term leaven[3] several times in reference to the The leaven of the Pharisees.
It is clearly another of those metaphors built into the Hebrew language and thinking.
Leaven by its nature is something that even in small a quantity, may influence everything. It could be used as a good influence or in a good sense[4] or a pernicious influence as in a bad sense we see with the leaven of the Pharisees.[5]
Pharisees were clearly creating new doctrines through false interpretations and their Sophistry.
The man made doctrine which strained at knats swallowed lies because vanity caused them to hate the "light" and love the darkness.
Their pride in their doctrines allowed and even required them to emphasis rituals and form, words, and phrases but failed to attend to the weightier matters.
They often did this by denying alternative uses of words or by altering their meaning through Sophistry.
That creation of new doctrines with often fictional and private interpretations by the pharisees was part of what Jesus meant when he referred to the need to "Beware of the Leaven of the Pharisees[5] which through their Corban would make the word of God to none effect.
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- ↑ 04682 מַצָּה matstsah [mats-tsaw’] MemTzadikHey from 04711 מָצַץ matsats MemTzadikTzadik with a Double Tzadik meaning "to drain out, suck" in the sense of greedily devouring for sweetness; n f; [BDB-595a] [{See TWOT on 1232 }] AV-unleavened bread 33, unleavened 14, cakes 5, without leaven 1; 53
- 1) unleavened (bread, cake), without leaven.
- מ ם Mem Fountain of water, a flow, a fountain of the Divine Wisdom [massive, overpower chaos] (Numeric value: 40)
- צ ץ Tzadik is always related to The Faith of the Righteous One, the foundation of the word "to hunt" or Harvest even eat or desire. [Harvest, pant, desire] (Numeric value: 90)
- ה Hey Expression--Thought, Speech, Action. Manifest seeds of thought and life. [Emphasize, jubilation, window, fence] (Numeric value: 5)
- ↑ Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
- ↑ 2219 ζύμη zume [dzoo’-may] probably from 2204 zeo fervent in anger or spirit; n f; TDNT-2:902,302; [{See TDNT 288 }] AV-leaven 13; 13
- 1) leaven
- 2) metaph. of inveterate mental and moral corruption, viewed in its tendency to infect others
- Leaven is applied to that which, though small in quantity, yet by its influence thoroughly pervades a thing; either in a good sense as in the parable #Mt 13:33; or in a bad sense, of a pernicious influence, "a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump"
- 5160 trophe, food; 1035 brosis, food; 106 azumos, unleavened bread, metaphor "free from faults or the "leaven of iniquity"".
- ↑ Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened." ([Matthew 13]:33)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. (Matthew 16:6)
- "How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees? (Matthew 16:11)
- "Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. (Matthew 16:12)
- "And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod. (Mark 8:15)
- "In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. (Luke 12:1)