1 Corinthians 5:8 (WEB)
Therefore let’s keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Catechism · 1
“Early Christian catechesis made constant use of the Old Testament.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. I Cor 5:6-8; 10:1-11.
Fathers and councils · 18
Augustine of Hippo
“…Him tell him, that if he would “enter into life” he must “keep the commandments;” let him banish from himself the bitterness of malice and wickedness; let him not kill, nor commit adultery, nor steal, nor bear false witness; that the dry land may appear, and bud forth the honouring of father and mother, and…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. v. 8.
Read the whole comment““Therefore,” says he, “let us keep the feast; not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of wickedness” (he shows what is meant by “old;” it is “stale” flour; it is sour), “but in the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. v. 8.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“Hear again the same [Apostle] blowing the trumpet, and proclaiming, ‘Christ our Passover is sacrificed; therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness.’” — editor's note: Ib. v. 7, 8.
Read the whole comment“…shod with the preparation of the Gospel, let us keep the feast as Paul saith, ‘Not with the old leaven, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth;’ reverently trusting that we are reconciled through Christ, and not departing from faith in Him, nor do we defile ourselves together with heretics, and…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. v. 8.
Read the whole comment“Now we eat it if, understanding the reason of the feast, and acknowledging the Deliverer, we conduct ourselves in accordance with His grace, as Paul saith; ‘So that we may keep the Feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.’” — editor's note: 1 Cor. v. 8.
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John Chrysostom
“…let us keep the feast,” it is said, “not with old leaven, neither with leaven of malice and wickedness; but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth”);as neither need they stand by an ark and a golden altar, who have the very Lord of all for their inmate, and in all things hold communion with Him; by prayer,…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. v. 8.
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Jerome
“Moreover it is with bitter herbs that the passover is eaten, and “with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. v. 8.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…Feast of our Departure; or from celebrating that Feast, not in the old leaven of malice and wickedness, but in the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth, carrying with us nothing of ungodly and Egyptian leaven.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. v. 8.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- OrigenCatena Aurea on Matthew
“We celebrate spiritually the things which were carnally celebrated in the Law, keeping the Passover “in the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth,” [1 Cor 5:8] according to the will of the Lamb, who said, “Except ye eat my flesh and drink my blood, ye shall not have life in you.” [John 6:53]” — the author cites it
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Leo the Great
“…nerve after this perfection, will keep this holy fast faithfully; free from the leaven of the old wickedness, in the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth, he will reach the blessed Passover, and by newness of life will worthily rejoice in the mystery of man’s reformation through Christ our Lord Who with the…” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. v. 8.
Read the whole comment“His threshold the angel of destruction does not cross, for it is marked with the Lamb’s blood and the sign of the cross.” — editor's note: Cf. Exod. xii. 23; and below, 1 Cor. v. 8, and Rom. viii. 35.
Read the whole comment“…that keeping the day of our redemption spiritually, “not in the old leaven of malice and wickedness, but in the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth,” we may deserve to be partakers of Christ’s resurrection, Who with the Father and the Holy Ghost liveth and reigneth for ever and ever.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. v. 8.
Read the whole comment“This it is whereby the Lord’s Passover is duly kept “With the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth” by the casting away of “the old leaven of wickedness” and the inebriating and feeding of the new creature with the very Lord.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. v. 8.
Read the whole comment“For our Paschal feast will never end, if we abstain from the leaven of the old wickedness (in the sincerity of truth).” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. v. 8: the words in brackets are of doubtful authority.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“For in what respect, he says, would the one tittle require any substance such as leaven (derived) from without for the Lord’s Passover, the eternal feast, which is given for generation upon generation?” — editor's note: [Exod. xii. 17. Comp. 1 Cor. v. 7, 8.]
Read the whole comment“In other respects, however, these consent to all the traditions delivered to the Church by the Apostles.” — editor's note: [He regards the Christian Paschal as authorized. 1 Cor. v. 7, 8.]
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Clement of Alexandria
“He, in fulfilment of the precept, according to the Gospel, keeps the Lord’s day, when he abandons an evil disposition, and assumes that of the Gnostic, glorifying the Lord’s resurrection in himself.” — editor's note: [Rom. vi. 5. The original of Clement’s argument seems to me to imply that he is here speaking of the Paschal festival, and the true keeping of it by a moral…
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Cyprian of Carthage
“Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not in the old leaven, nor in the leaven of malice and wickedness, but in the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. v. 7, 8.
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Cross-references · 23
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 26:17–19 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Orations Oration 1.
Cited together in Orations Oration 1.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VIII.7.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in Orations Oration 1.
Cited together in Orations Oration 1.
Cited together in Orations Oration 1.
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 26:17–19 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 26:17–19 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 26:17–19 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 26:17–19 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Orations Oration 1.