Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Corinthians 5:7

7 Purge out therefore the old leaven that you may be a new lump , as ye are unleavened . For even Christ our passeover is sacrificed for us .

If the Article [non-Latin text not transcribed] in this place be Emphatical (as some think) it ought to have been translated this old leaven, that is, the incestuous person, whose communion with you influenceth your whole Communion, which is defiled by it, through your Churches neglect of their duty with reference to him. If the Article be not to be taken Emphatically, these words may be understood as spoken to every individual Member of this Church, and is no more than put off the old man, the lusts and corruption of our hearts, as well as false Doctrine, being compared to leaven which influence our whole man, as leaven doth the whole mass of meal. The first seemeth to be most proper to this place, if we consider what went before and that the Apostle is speaking to the whole Church, and had been before speaking of an act to be done by them not singly, but when they should be gathered together in a Church-assembly, these he commands to purge out the old leaven, that is, this incestuous person,

that they might be truly a Christian Church, reformed from such things as no way agreed with the Doctrine and Profession of the Gospel.

As you are or should be unleavened, like the Jews, who at the Passeover kept the Feast of Unleavened bread, when for seven days together they might have no leavened bread in any of their houses, Levit. 23.6.

For though the Feast of the Jewish Passeover be ceased, and you be tyed to none of those Levitical observations, yet you are under as high an obligation; for Christ, who is the true Paschal Lamb, is slain or sacrificed for us, and your old man should be crucified with him, and you no longer serve sin.

Marginal references: Isa. 53.[illegible: 2 letters] Joh. 1.[illegible: 1 letter]9▪ Chap. 15.[illegible: 2 letters]; Or, [illegible: 1 span]