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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
I still wonder if there are any verses that truly give a negative connotation to leaven. There are lots of dietary laws in the OT and never once is it even suggested that things leavened (bread, wine, beer, etc.) have a negative connotation. Also, the fact that they had to purge out the old leaven indicates that leaven was a central commodity in all Jewish homes.
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Beware of the leaven is not any different from beware the electric cable, being dangerous is not equivalent with sinful, unclean, or evil. Rather the term old is a decidedly negative term, God is always new. So the issue with purging out the old leaven could be that it was old, not that it was leaven. Likewise beware the leaven of the pharisees could easily be an issue of the Pharisees, not leaven.