Article July 3, 1965 Issue

WORDS OF CURRENT INTEREST

[The words in this issue are related to the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly designated to be read in Christian Science churches on July 11, 1965.]

Leaven (I Cor. 5:8)

The word "leaven" was used in the Biblical period in more than one sense. Literally, it referred to the substance employed to produce fermentation in dough so as to make it rise: but since, as The Westminster Dictionary of the Bible notes, "fermentation is incipient corruption." the word was often used as a symbol of corruption: hence its association in this verse with "malice and wickedness" in contrast to the "unleavened bread of sincerity and truth." On the other hand, the active qualities of leaven are praised in Matthew 13:33, where God's kingdom, with its constant activity and growth, is compared to leaven.

Moses gave you not that bread from heaven: but my father giveth you the true bread from heaven (John 6:32)

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