Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [1 Corinthians: Chapter 5].
after a contagious disease. {A new lump} (\neon phurama\). Make a
fresh start as a new community with the contamination removed.
\Neos\ is the root for \neaniskos\, a young man, not yet old
(\g•raios\). So new wine (\oinon neon\ Mt 9:17). \Kainos\ is
fresh as compared with the ancient (\palaios\). See the
distinction in Col 3:10; Eph 4:22ff.; 2Co 5:17. {Unleavened}
(\azumoi\). Without (\a\ privative) leaven, the normal and ideal
state of Christians. Rare word among the ancients (once in
Plato). They are a new creation (\kain• ktisis\), "exemplifying
Kant's maxim that you should treat a man as if he were what you
would wish him to be" (Robertson and Plummer). {For our passover
also hath been sacrificed, even Christ} (\kai gar to pascha h•m•n
etuth• Christos\). First aorist passive indicative of \thu•\, old
verb to sacrifice. Euphony of consonants, \th\ to \t\ because of
\-th•\. Reference to the death of Christ on the Cross as the
Paschal Lamb (common use of \pascha\ as Mr 14:12; Lu 22:7), the
figure used long before by the Baptist of Jesus (Joh 1:29).
Paul means that the Lamb was already slain on Calvary and yet you
have not gotten rid of the leaven.
5:8 {Wherefore let us keep the feast} (\h•ste heortaz•men\).
Present active subjunctive (volitive). Let us keep on keeping the
feast, a perpetual feast (Lightfoot), and keep the leaven out. It
is quite possible that Paul was writing about the time of the
Jewish passover, since it was before pentecost (1Co 16:8). But,
if so, that is merely incidental, and his language here is not a
plea for the observance of Easter by Christians. {With the leaven
of malice and wickedness} (\en zum•i kakias kai pon•rias\).
Vicious disposition and evil deed. {With the unleavened bread of
sincerity and truth} (\en azumois eilikrinias kai al•theias\). No
word for "bread." The plural of \azumois\ may suggest "elements"
or "loaves." \Eilikrinia\ (sincerity) does not occur in the
ancient Greek and is rare in the later Greek. In the papyri it
means probity in one example. The etymology is uncertain. Boisacq
inclines to the notion of \heil•\ or \hel•\, sunlight, and
\krin•\, to judge by the light of the sun, holding up to the
light. \Al•theia\ (truth) is a common word from \al•th•s\ (true)
and this from \a\ privative and \l•th•\ (\lathein, lanthan•\, to
conceal or hide) and so unconcealed, not hidden. The Greek idea
of truth is out in the open. Note Ro 1:18 where Paul pictures
those who are holding down the truth in unrighteousness.
5:9 {I wrote unto you in my epistle} (\egrapsa humin en t•i
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