1 Corinthians 5:8

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. NOT ... OLD LEAVEN - of our unconverted state. MALICE - the opposite of "sincerity," which allows no leaven of evil to be mixed up with good (Matthew 16:6). WICKEDNESS - the opposite of "truth," which allows not evil to be mistaken for good. "Malice" [ kakia (G2549)] means the evil habit of mind; "wickedness" [ poneeria (G4189)] its outcoming in word and deed. "Sincerity" [ eilikrineia (G1505)] expresses literally a thin...

8.Now, in the solemnity of this sacred feast we must abstain from _leaven_, as God commanded the fathers to abstain. But from what leaven? As the outward passover was to them a figure of the true _passover_, so its appendages were figures of the reality which we at this day possess. If, therefore, we would wish to feed on Christ’s flesh and blood, let us bring to this feast _sincerity and truth _Let these be our loaves of _unleavened bread _Away with all_malice and wickedness_, for it is unlawful to mix up _leaven _with the _passover _In fine, he declares that we shall be members of Christ only when we shall have renounced _malice _and deceit. In the meantime we must carefully observe this passage, as showing that the ancient passover was not merely μνημοσυνον, (293) a memorial of a past benefit, but also a sacrament, representing Christ wh

1-8 The apostle notices a flagrant abuse, winked at by the Corinthians. Party spirit, and a false notion of Christian liberty, seem to have saved the offender from censure. Grievous indeed is it that crimes should sometimes be committed by professors of the gospel, of which even heathens would be ashamed. Spiritual pride and false doctrines tend to bring in, and to spread such scandals. How dreadful the effects of sin! The devil reigns where Christ does not. And a man is in his kingdom, and under his power, when not in Christ. The bad example of a man of influence is very mischievous; it spreads far and wide. Corrupt principles and examples, if not corrected, would hurt the whole church. Believers must have new hearts, and lead new lives. Their common conversation and religious deeds must be holy. So far is the sacrifice of Christ our Passover for us, from rendering personal and public...

Verse 1 Corinthians 5:8. _THEREFORE LET US KEEP THE FEAST_] It is very likely that the time of the passover was now approaching, when the Church of Christ would be called to extraordinary acts of devotion, in commemorating the passion, death, and resurrection of Christ; and of this circumstance the apostle takes advantage in his exhortation to the Corinthians. See the _Introduction_, sect. xii. _NOT WITH OLD LEAVEN_] Under the Christian dispensation we must be saved equally from _Judaism, heathenism_, and from sin of every kind; _malice_ and _wickedness_ must be destroyed; and _sincerity_ and _truth_, inward purity and outward holiness, take their place. The apostle refers here not more to wicked _principles_ than to wicked _men_; let us keep the feast, not with the old leaven-the impure p

LET US KEEP THE FEAST - Margin, “Holy day” ἑορτάζωμεν heortazōmen. This is language drawn from the paschal feast, and is used by Paul frequently to carry out and apply his illustration. It does not mean literally the paschal supper here - for that had ceased to be observed by Christians - nor the Lord’s Supper particularly; but the sense is “As the Jews when they celebrated the paschal supper, on the slaying and sacrifice of the paschal lamb, put away all leaven - as emblematic of sin - so let us, in the slaying of our sacrifice, and in all the duties, institutions and events consequent thereon, put away all wickedness from our hearts as individuals, and from our societies and churches. Let us engage in the service of God putting away by all evil.” NOT WITH THE OLD LEAVEN - Not under the influence, or in the indulgence of the feelings of corrupt

EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 5:1 _Excommunication of an incestuous offender._ 1 CORINTHIANS 5:1 IT IS REPORTED. The abruptness with which the subject is introduced shows THE intensity of St. Paul's feelings, and his indignation that he should have been left to hear of this crime by common report. The news had come to him "from those of Chloe's household." But St. Paul was not acting on mere "report." The Greek phrase _implies, _"It is notorious that there is uncleanness among you." St. Paul must have felt it to be a bad feature in the character of the Corinthian Church that they had not mentioned this gross scandal in their letter. COMMONLY; rather, actuall

THEREFORE LET US KEEP THE FEAST,.... Not the feast of the passover, which was now ceased, though this is said in allusion to it; when the master of the house used to say l, "everyone that is hungry, let him come and eat; he that hath need, let him come ויפסח, "and paschatize", or keep the feast of the passover:'' but rather the feast of the Lord's supper is here meant, that feast of fat things Isaiah prophesied of; in which are the richest entertainments, even the flesh and blood of Christ; though it seems best to understand it of the whole course of a Christian's life, spent in the exercise of spiritual joy and faith in Christ; he that is of a merry heart, as the believer of all men in the world has reason to be of, "hath a continual feast", Proverbs 15:15 of spiritual mirth and pleasure, rejoicing always in Christ, as he ought to do: which feast, or course of

3. CORINTHIAN FAILURES. CHAPTER S 5-6. CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The Tolerated Case of Gross Immorality. (1 Corinthians 5:1)._ 2. The Call to Separation. (1 Corinthians 5:6). The spiritual declension, the carnal spirit which prevailed among them, had brought forth fruit. One of their members had committed an act of the grossest immorality, which was an unspeakable outrage, such as was not even named in a licentious city like Corinth, where licentiousness of life was a broadly marked feature of society. It was a case of lawlessness and vileness, which was unknown among the heathen. And this case was tolerated in their midst. Instead of mourning over their sin they were puffed up and did not put away the evil doer from the assembly. If they lacked the personal instructio

It is actually reported that there is unchastity among you, and unchastity so monstrous that it does not even exist among the heathen, unchastity the consequence of which is that a certain man has formed a union with his father's wife; and you have regarded the matter with inflated self-complacency and you have not--as you should have--regarded it with a grief so bitter that it would take steps to see that the perpetrator of this deed should be removed from your midst. Now I, absent in the body but present in the spirit, have already come to a decision as if I were present. Regarding the man who has perpetrated this deed, it is my judgment that when you have assembled together in the name of the Lord and when my spirit is with you, backed by the power of the Lord Jesus, you should hand over this man who has acted in such a way to Satan until his sinful lusts shall be eliminated from his...

THEREFORE. So then. KEEP THE FEAST. Greek. _heortazo_. Only here. He means, the Passover being past, we are living in the days of unleavened bread. Figure of speech _Allegory._ App-6. Psalms 89:15 NOT. App-105. WITH. Greek. _en,_ as in 1 Corinthians 4:21. NEITHER. Greek. _mede_. MALICE... WICKEDNESS. Greek. _kakia_... _poneria_. App-128. SINCERITY. Greek. _eilikrineia._ Elsewhere, 2 Corinthians 1:12; 2 Corinthians 2:17....