Exodus 12:3
Exodus 29:38-46
Isaiah 53:7
1 Corinthians 5:7
Purge out--the old leaven; the apostle alludes to the Jewish custom of carefully putting away from their houses all leaven upon the approach of the feast of the passover. Leaven is in the Scriptures a common emblem for moral corruption. The old leaven which he exhorted them to put away was the remainder of their former wickedness, as seen in this incestuous person.A new lump; fresh and unleavened; that is, pure from corruption.As ye are unleavened; profess and are under peculiar obligations to be holy.Christ our passover; the ground or reason why we are passed over, as the first-born of the Israelites were, Ex 12:23, and not destroyed, is the death of Christ. As the Israelites were to put away all leaven before partaking of the paschal lamb, Ex 12:15, which was the type of Christ, so the Corinthians were to put away all sin, that they might spiritually feed on Christ, the great antitype. 1 Peter 1:18-21
Vain conversation; vain life; their vain reliance on the ceremonies of the law and the traditions of the father. It may be the duty of persons to change their religion although it has come down to them from their ancestors, and is supported by ancient traditions; and in many cases, unless they do change it, they will lose their souls. Foreordained; as a Saviour. By him; it is through Christ alone that we come to God as our heavenly Father, and exercise true faith in him. Joh 14:6.Might be in God; rest on what God, not man, has done.
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