ἄζυμος: Difference between revisions

|txtha=([[ζύμη]]), [[Hebrew]] מַצָּה, [[unfermented]], [[free]] from [[leaven]]; [[properly]]: ἄρτοι Josephus, Antiquities 3,6, 6; [[hence]] the neuter plural τά ἄζυμα, מַצּות, unleavened loaves; ἡ [[ἑορτή]] [[τῶν]] ἀζύμων, הַמַּצּות חַג, the (paschal) [[festival]] at [[which]] for [[seven]] days the [[Israelite]]s were [[accustomed]] to [[eat]] unleavened [[bread]] in [[commemoration]] of [[their]] [[exit]] from [[Egypt]] (ἡ πρώτη ([[namely]], [[ἡμέρα]]) [[τῶν]] ἀζύμων. αἱ ἡμέραι [[τῶν]] ἀζύμων. τά ἄζυμα, Winer s Grammar, 176 (166); Buttmann, 23 (21)). Figuratively: Christians, if [[such]] as [[they]] [[ought]] to be, are called ἄζυμοι i. e. devoid of the [[leaven]] of [[iniquity]], [[free]] from faults, ἑορτάζειν ἐν ἀζύμοις εἰλικρινείας, to [[keep]] [[festival]] [[with]] the unleavened [[bread]] of [[sincerity]] and [[truth]], Athen. 3,74 (ἄρτον) ἄζυμον, [[Plato]], Tim., p. 74d. [[ἄζυμος]] [[σάρξ]] [[flesh]] [[not]] [[yet]] [[quite]] formed ([[add]] Galen de alim. fac. 1,2).)