“When leaven is praised it is as composing the bread of life, but when blamed it signifies a lasting and bitter maliciousness.”
Gregory of Nazianzus, 4th c. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
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1In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
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— Luke 12:1 —
2For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.
3Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.