Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Corinthians 5:8

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 .

Here is a manifest allusion to the Feast of the Iewish Passeover, which was immediately followed with the Feast of Unleavened bread for seven days. As the Passeover prefigured Christ, who is our Paschal Lamb, whose flesh we eat, and whose blood we drink by believing, and Sacramentally in the Lords Supper; so the Jewish subsequent Feast of Unleavened bread prefigured all the days of a Christians life, which are to be spent,

not with the old leaven, nor the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth: which may be either understood of those evil and good habits which they signifie, and let us so know the duty of every particular Christian, to take heed of any malice or wickedness, or else (which seemeth most proper to this place) the abstract is put for the concrete, malice and wickedness for wicked and malicious men, and sincerity and truth for persons that are true and sincere. So that we are from hence taught, both the duty of every particular Christian, considering that Christ hath died as a Sacrifice for his sin, to live up to the rule which he hath given us, abhorring malice and all wickedness, and acting truth and sincerity, and also the duty of every true Church of Christ, to keep their Communion pure from the society of wicked and malicious men, and made up of men of truth and sincerity. The latter seemeth to be principally intended.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 word]. 12.15.; [illegible: 1 word], [illegible: 2 letters]ly day.; [illegible: 1 word]. 16.3.