“Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”
Therefore let us keep the Festival of Unleavened Bread, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth — the extended metaphor: 'keep the feast' (heortazō) by living ethically. 'Old yeast' (palaias zymēs) symbolizes 'malice' (kakia) and 'wickedness' (ponēria); 'unleavened bread' symbolizes 'sincerity' (eilikrineia, purity, lit. 'judged by sunlight') and 'truth' (alētheia). Christian life is continuous Passover, continuous celebration of freedom through Christ, manifest in ethical purity.
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