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Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
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The Christian Life is a Feast
Commentators widely agree that when Paul says "let us keep the feast," he isn't just referring to a holiday or the Lord's Supper. He is describing the entire Christian life as a continuous festival. Because of Christ's sacrifice, our whole existence is meant to be an ongoing celebration of joy, worship, and consecration to God.
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1 Corinthians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Let us keep the feast. The margin note is Holy day—eortazwmen. This is language drawn from the paschal feast and is used…
Wherefore let us keep the feast (ωστε εορταζωμεν). Present active subjunctive (volitive). Let us keep on keeping the feast, a perp…
19th Century
Anglican
Old leaven—that is, in their old state generally; and then the Apostle proceeds to specify. Sincerity and truth are to take the p…
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Paul illustrates Christian holiness and discipline by the OT teaching that no yeast was allowed in the bread eaten at the Passover feast. Yeast in …
16th Century
Protestant
Now, in the solemnity of this sacred feast, we must abstain from leaven, as God commanded the forefathers to abstain. But from what leaven…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Therefore let us keep the feast Not the feast of the passover, which was now ceased, though this is said in allusion…
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The apostle notices a flagrant abuse, ignored by the Corinthians. Party spirit and a false notion of Christian liberty seem to have saved the offen…
13th Century
Catholic
After reminding the Corinthians of two crimes—namely, the fornicator's and that of those who condoned his sin—the Apostle now censures both. He fir…
