[Salvation]

As noted, "leaven" is often used by St. Paul.

Similarly, it was used in both the Old Testament and again by Christ in proclaiming the Gospel in the New Testament.

A little bit of leaven is often compared to a little bit of faith -- much like the mustard seed.

[Salvation]

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Monogamy	Sanctoral Cycle/Proper of the Saints	Prinknash
Gift of Knowledge	Nine Offices	Imputability
Thesis	Hypapante	Evangelist of Mary
Grace of God	Morality of Dancing	Priest
Henotheism	Creationism	Incommunicable Attribute
Homoousios	Credence	Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
Baptism	Darius	Papal Decoration
Secret Society	Laus	Humanae Personae Dignitatem
Station Days	Christian Marriage	Incarnation
Gabriel	Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes	Dead Sea
Redemptorists	Agony	Dispensation
Monism	Cathedral of Cologne	Sursum Corda
Sacramental Confession	Mass Penny	Objective (Ontological)
Psaltery	Theological Censure	Mary’s Death
Prescience	Leaven

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[Tax-chick]

In the historical context, it was probably on the order of a sourdough starter.

[RnMomof7]

Leaven is always used to describe evil in scripture. That is why the Jews cleaned their homes of leaven for the passover .

This parable I think is a difficult passage, because included in the discourse is the parable of the wheat and the tares which speaks of weeds being planted in the field with the good. It seems this too might fall under that explanation of the Kingdom .

The women HID the leaven in the dough, we are not to hid the gospel we are to proclaim it.. It might be that this is talking of the false teachers and evil infiltrating the Kingdom and eventually having a major impact on it.

Many commentaries agree with the reading in the article.but to me it is counter the normal flow of scripture

I tend to agree with schofield on this

"(3) The method of the extension of the kingdom is given in the first parable. It is by sowing seed, not by mingling leaven. The symbols have, in Scripture, a meaning fixed by inspired usage. Leaven is the principle of corruption working subtly; is invariably used in a bad sense (see "Leaven," See Scofield Note: "Gen 19:3"), and is defined by our Lord as evil doctrine. Mt 16:11,12 Mk 8:15.

Meal, on the contrary, was used in one of the sweet-savour offerings Lev 2:1-3. and was food for the priests Lev 6:15-17.

Interpreting the parable by these familiar symbols, it constitutes a warning that the true doctrine, given for nourishment of the children of the kingdom Mt 4:4 1Tim 4:6 1Pet 2:2 would be mingled with corrupt and corrupting false doctrine, and that officially, by the apostate church itself 1Tim 4:1-3 2Tim 2:17,18 4:3,4 2Pet 2:1-3.

This is not a matter of salvation ..but an interesting study

thanks