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5. Concerning the Leaven of the Pharisees.

"And His disciples came to the other side and forgot to take loaves." [5585] Since the loaves which they had before they came to the other side were no longer useful to the disciples when they came to the other side, for they needed one kind of loaves before they crossed and a different kind when they crossed,--on this account, being careless of taking loaves when going to the other side, they forgot to take loaves with them. To the other side then came the disciples of Jesus who had passed over from things material to things spiritual, and from things sensible to those which are intellectual. And perhaps that He might turn back those who, by crossing to the other side, "had begun in spirit," [5586] from running back to carnal things, Jesus said to them when on the other side, "Take heed and beware." [5587] For there was a certain lump of teaching and of truly ancient leaven,--that according to the bare letter, and on this account not freed from those things which arise from wickedness,--which the Pharisees and Sadducees offered, of which Jesus does not wish His own disciples any longer to eat, having made for them a new and spiritual lump, offering Himself to those who gave up the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees and had come to Him--"the living bread which came down from heaven and gives life to the world." [5588] But since, to him who is no longer going to use the leaven and the lump and the teaching of the Pharisees and the Sadducees, the first thing is to "see" and then to "beware," so that no one, by reason of not seeing and from want of taking heed, may ever partake of their forbidden leaven,--on this account He says to the disciples, first, "see," and then, "beware."

[5585] Matt. xvi. 5.

[5586] Cf. Gal. iii. 3.

[5587] Matt. xvi. 6.

[5588] John vi. 33, 51.
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