Heortazo denotes joining in a festival observance, framed here by a contrast between old leaven and sincerity and truth.

The attested use calls for festival observance while contrasting old leaven, malice, and evil with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

1. Observing a festival in a moral contrast · dominant

   In 1 Corinthians 5:8, the present active subjunctive plural form occurs in an exhortation that contrasts old leaven and the leaven of malice and evil with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth; the APB renders the clause, "Therefore let us keep the festival."

   1 Corinthians 5:8

In the Anselm Project Bible: In 1 Corinthians 5:8, the APB presents the clause as "let us keep the festival." This rendering is treated as confirmation of the clause's overall exhortation.