.
● Gen 19:3 . . Lot prepared a feast for them and baked unleavened bread,
and they ate.
In this day and age of cultured yeast it's not easy to explain what the Bible
means by leavened and unleavened. Well; the primary difference between
the two terms isn't ingredients; rather, the primary difference is decay.
The Hebrew word translated "unleavened" essentially refers to an
unfermented cake or loaf; in other words: bread made with sweet dough
rather than sour dough, i.e. fresh dough rather than spoiled dough, i.e. pure
dough rather than tainted dough.
Given time, fresh dough will become leavened on its own because all flour,
no matter how carefully it's milled and packaged, contains a percentage of
naturally-occurring fungi.
● Ex 12:34 . . So the people took their dough before it was leavened, with
their kneading bowls bound up in the clothes on their shoulders.
That gives an idea of how quickly God moved Moses' people out of Egypt
after slaying all the firstborn. They had made bread with fresh dough for that
night's dinner in accord with the law of the Passover instituted in the 12th
chapter of Exodus and it had not yet spoiled; which fresh dough will
eventually do if it isn't kept refrigerated.
Anyway, point being: bread made with sour dough is reasonably safe to eat,
we know that; so serving his guests bread made with tainted dough wouldn't
have been a health issue. However, it's likely that Lot served his guests
bread made with fresh dough due to urgency. Leavened bread is appealing;
but unleavened is quicker because there's no waiting for the dough to rise
before baking it.
Old fashioned leavened bread-- the Bible's leavened bread --is made by
blending a batch of fresh dough with so-called "starter" which is highly
prized by some cooks. The product becomes a blend of good and bad; which
spiritually speaking is not a good thing because it's an amalgam of that
which is corrupt with that which is sound.
● 1Cor 5:6 . . Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
Yes; it surely does.
"The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in
three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened." (Matt 13:33)
In other words: the woman's dough was no longer pure, it was contaminated
with spoiled dough.
● 1Cor 5:7-8 . . Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new
lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for
us. 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.
_
● Gen 19:3 . . Lot prepared a feast for them and baked unleavened bread,
and they ate.
In this day and age of cultured yeast it's not easy to explain what the Bible
means by leavened and unleavened. Well; the primary difference between
the two terms isn't ingredients; rather, the primary difference is decay.
The Hebrew word translated "unleavened" essentially refers to an
unfermented cake or loaf; in other words: bread made with sweet dough
rather than sour dough, i.e. fresh dough rather than spoiled dough, i.e. pure
dough rather than tainted dough.
Given time, fresh dough will become leavened on its own because all flour,
no matter how carefully it's milled and packaged, contains a percentage of
naturally-occurring fungi.
● Ex 12:34 . . So the people took their dough before it was leavened, with
their kneading bowls bound up in the clothes on their shoulders.
That gives an idea of how quickly God moved Moses' people out of Egypt
after slaying all the firstborn. They had made bread with fresh dough for that
night's dinner in accord with the law of the Passover instituted in the 12th
chapter of Exodus and it had not yet spoiled; which fresh dough will
eventually do if it isn't kept refrigerated.
Anyway, point being: bread made with sour dough is reasonably safe to eat,
we know that; so serving his guests bread made with tainted dough wouldn't
have been a health issue. However, it's likely that Lot served his guests
bread made with fresh dough due to urgency. Leavened bread is appealing;
but unleavened is quicker because there's no waiting for the dough to rise
before baking it.
Old fashioned leavened bread-- the Bible's leavened bread --is made by
blending a batch of fresh dough with so-called "starter" which is highly
prized by some cooks. The product becomes a blend of good and bad; which
spiritually speaking is not a good thing because it's an amalgam of that
which is corrupt with that which is sound.
● 1Cor 5:6 . . Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
Yes; it surely does.
"The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in
three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened." (Matt 13:33)
In other words: the woman's dough was no longer pure, it was contaminated
with spoiled dough.
● 1Cor 5:7-8 . . Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new
lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for
us. 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.
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