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"'''Azymes'''" (plural of ''azyme'') is an [[Early Modern English|archaic English]] word for the [[Judaism|Jewish]] [[matzah]], derived from the [[Ancient Greek]] word [[ἄζυμος]] ([[ἄρτος]]) ''ázymos (ártos)'', "unleavened (bread)", for unfermented bread in Biblical times;<sup>[1]</sup> the more accepted term in modern English is simply [[unleavened bread]] or [[matzah]], but cognates of the Greek term are still used in many [[Romance language]]s (Spanish ''pan ácimo'', French ''pain azyme'', Italian ''azzimo'', Portuguese ''pão ázimo'' and Romanian ''azimă''). The term does not appear frequently in modern Bible translations, but was the usual word for unleavened bread in the early [[Catholic]] English [[Douay-Rheims Bible]].

The adjectival form "[[azymite]]" was used as a term of abuse by [[Byzantine Rite]] [[Christians]] against [[Roman Rite]] Christians. The [[Orthodox Church]] has continued the ancient Eastern practice of using leavened bread for the [[Lamb (liturgy)|Lamb]] (Host) in the [[Eucharist]]. After serious theological disputes between Rome and the churches of the East, Latin use of unleavened bread, ''azymes'', for the Eucharist—a point of [[liturgy|liturgical]] difference—became also a point of [[theology|theological]] difference between the two, and was one of several disputes which led eventually to the [[East–West Schism|Great Schism]] between [[Eastern Christianity|Eastern]] and [[Western Christianity|Western]] Christianity in 1054.<sup>[2]</sup>

==References==
* 1. [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02171a.htm Azymes] - ''[[Catholic Encyclopedia]]'' article
* 2. [https://archive.org/details/orthodoxchurchac00ware/page/66 66]

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