NT References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers
Acts 5:10
Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes
but also put Sapphira to death?[710]
Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes
but also put Sapphira to death?[710]
ACTS 5:8-10 Codex Bezae alters ver. Acts 5:8 by replacing avpekri,qh with ei=pen and by rephrasing Peter’s inquiry, evperwth,sw se eiv a;ra to. cwri,on tosou,tou avpe,dosqe...
Verse Acts 5:10. _YIELDED UP THE GHOST_] See Acts 5:5. It was not by Peter's _words_, nor through Peter's _prayers_, nor through _shame_, nor through _remorse_, that this guilty pair died, but by an...
CHAPTER 5 _ 1. Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5:1)._ 2. Signs and wonders by the Apostles (Acts 5:11). 3. The second arrest of the Apostles and their Deliverance (Acts 5:17). 4. Before the Council ...
ANANIAS AND SAPPHIRA. Barnabas-' unworthy counterpart is Ananias, who, in league with his wife, was unwilling to part with all his property, but anxious to appear to have done so. Their crime was that...
A man called Ananias, together with his wife Sapphire, sold a bit of ground he had, and surreptitiously kept back part of the price, and his wife knew about it. He brought some part of the price and l...
TROUBLE IN THE CHURCH (Acts 5:1-11)...
STRAIGHTWAY. Greek. _parachrema._ See note on Acts 3:7. AT. Greek. _para,_ as in Acts 5:2, but the texts read _pros._ YIELDED UP THE GHOST. Same as in Acts 5:5. YOUNG MEN. App-108. DEAD. App-139.
_Then fell she down straightway at his feet_ Close to the place where the money, for which they had sinned, had been laid, and where perhaps it was still lying. For we cannot think that St Peter would...
Acts 5:1. Account of Ananias and Sapphira The narrative with which this chapter commences is one which none but a veracious narrator would have inserted where it stands. The last chapter concludes wi...
ΠΡῸΣ for παρὰ with אABD. 10. ΠΡῸΣ ΤΟῪΣ ΠΌΔΑΣ ΑΥ̓ΤΟΥ͂, _at his feet_. Close to the place where the money, for which they had sinned, had been laid, and where perhaps it was still lying. For we cannot t...
Acts 5:1-11. ACCOUNT OF ANANIAS AND SAPPHIRA The narrative with which this chapter commences is one which none but a veracious narrator would have inserted where it stands. The last chapter concludes...
ΈΠΕΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ Acts 5:5. ΕΞΈΨΥΞΕΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ Acts 5:5. ΕΊΣΕΛΘΌΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.), см._ Acts 5:7. ΕΎΡΟΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΕΎΡΊΣΚΩ ...
8. IN THE UPPER ROOM. Acts 4:28, Acts 5:11. a. The Prayer Service. Acts 4:23-31. Acts 4:23 And being let go, they came to their own company,
See notes on verse 8...
Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband. THEN FELL SHE DOWN STRAIGHTW...
30 The timid opposition of the Sanhedrin is in contrast to the boldness of those who proclaimed the evangel. God manifested Himself by miraculous interventions, and the powers of the kingdom abounded....
THE APOSTLES AGAIN IMPRISONED 1-16. The sin of Ananias and Sapphira was not keeping back part of the price, which they had a perfect right to do (Acts 5:4), but pretending that the money which they of...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 5 ANANIAS AND SAPPHIRA, 5:1-11 V1 But there was a man whose name was Ananias. He and his wife, Sapphira, sold a building and some land. The bui...
παραχρῆμα, see on Acts 3:7. The introduction of the word shows that the writer regarded the death as supernatural, see above on Acts 5:5. πρός, by, beside her husband = παρά with dative, Blass, _Gramm...
LYING TO THE HOLY SPIRIT Acts 4:36-37; Acts 5:1-11 The Spirit of God is the source of generous and liberal giving. It is a poor substitute to set up bazaars, and fairs, and ice cream suppers. When th...
Here we have a terrible story. The account of Ananias and Sapphira stands in vivid contrast to that of Barnabas. The sin was dishonest dealing with the Holy Spirit. The judgment was swift and terrible...
Lying to the Holy Spirit Ananias and his wife, Sapphira, sold a piece of land, but decided to only lay a portion of the proceeds at the feet of the apostles. Ash notes that the same word translated "k...
ANANIAS AND SAPPHIRA 1-11. In that country the summers are very hot [and this was June], superinducing very quick and rapid putrefaction, necessitating a speedy interment of the dead, especially in a...
But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, (2) And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostle...
First of all we see man in an entirely new place man risen from among the dead and ascending to heaven. The risen ascended man, Christ Jesus, is the new starting-point of the dealings of God. The firs...
Alas! evil shews itself there also (Chapter 5). If the mighty Spirit of God is there, the flesh also is there. There are some who wished to have the credit of devotedness which the Holy Ghost produces...
THEN FELL SHE DOWN STRAIGHTWAY AT HIS FEET,.... In like manner, and by the same hand of God as her husband before: AND YIELDED UP THE GHOST; died directly: AND THE YOUNG MEN CAME IN AND FOUND HER DE...
Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying _her_ forth, buried _her_ by her husband. Ver. 10. _Then fell she do...
_About the space of three hours after_ How precious a space! _his wife_ Who was absent when this happened; _not knowing what was done, came in_ Into the place where the apostles were, expecting, doubt...
Sometimes known, deliberate wickedness is visited upon the sinner by immediate divine judgments; and no person, when he commits known iniquity, can be sure that it will not be so visited on him; and i...
The death of Sapphira:...
THEN FELL SHE DOWN STRAIGHTWAY AT HIS FEET, AND YIELDED UP THE GHOST. AND THE YOUNG MEN CAME IN, AND FOUND HER DEAD, AND, CARRYING HER FORTH, BURIED HER BY HER HUSBAND....
Where God is working, however, the opposition of Satan soon becomes apparent. The evil begins (as evil always does) in an underhand manner, but is quickly exposed by God. Ananias and Sapphira certainl...
THEN IMMEDIATELY SHE FELL DOWN AT HIS FEET AND BREATHED HER LAST. AND THE YOUNG MEN CAME IN AND FOUND HER DEAD, AND CARRYING _HER_ OUT, BURIED _HER_ BY HER HUSBAND. 1. She fell down, breathed her las...
And she fell down immediately at his feet, and gave up the ghost: and the young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her by her husband. 'AND FOUND HER DEAD'-'Can we im...
1-11 The sin of Ananias and Sapphira was, that they were ambitious of being thought eminent disciples, when they were not true disciples. Hypocrites may deny themselves, may forego their worldly adva...
The same sins meet with the same punishment; God is no respecter of persons, Jew or Gentile, male or female....
Acts 5:10 Then G1161 immediately G3916 down G4098 (G5627) at G3844 his G846 feet G4228 and G2532 last...
‘And she fell down immediately at his feet, and gave up her breath, and the young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her by her husband.' Thus Sapphira too fell dead,...
Acts 5:10. AND THE YOUNG MEN CAME IN, AND FOUND HER DEAD. The death of the wife was instantaneous, and took place exactly as the words of Peter had foretold. She lay dead in the midst of the assembly,...
_The Inner Life of the Church, Acts 4:32 to Acts 5:11_. The characteristic feature is concord among the believers. The great topic of preaching among them is the Lord's resurrection. The favour they w...
IMMEDIATELY (παραχρημα). Hence her death was regarded as supernatural like that of Ananias.BY HER HUSBAND (προς τον ανδρα αυτης). Face to face to her husband....
Acts 4:32-5 Ananias and Sapphira I. We have much need to lay to heart the lessons of this incident. Christ's Church has long since come to include so many false or unspiritual members, and to be so b...
CONTENTS: Sin and death of Ananias and Sapphira. The second persecution and answer of apostles to their persecutors. Warning of Gamaliel. Apostles beaten. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Ananias, Sapph...
Acts 5:3. _Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost._ These words not only indicate that Ananias was a minister of the word, but that he for once had yielded his heart to th...
THE YOUNG MEN CAME IN. It had taken three hours to carry Ananias out of the city, bury him, and come back. This incident teaches, that while you can lie to men, you cannot fool God!...
_It was about the space of three hours after, when his wife, not knowing what was done, came in._ PLAIN LANGUAGE I think that one of the master incantations, one of the most signal deceits, which we...
_But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession._ ANANIAS AND SAPPHIRA The word Ananias means “grace of God”; and the word Sapphira signifies just “a sapphire,” the famili...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 5:10 The text does not specify whether Ananias and Sapphira were “false” believers or if they truly belonged to the Lord despite their obvious sin. ⇐...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 5:1. ANANIAS.—Perhaps the same name as Ananiah (Nehemiah 3:23) or Hananiah (1 Chronicles 3:21; Jeremiah 28:1;
EXPOSITION ACTS 5:1 ANANIAS (Ἀνανίας) In Nehemiah 3:23 the Hebrew name היָנְנַעֲ (God covers or protects) is thus rendered in the LXX. But the name occurs nowhere else. The very common name היָנְנ...
Chapter 5, the book of Acts. At the end of the fourth chapter we have the second mention of the early pure communism that was practiced in the first church. Where those who had possessions sold them,...
Acts 5:5...
The Church — This is the first time it is mentioned: and here is a native specimen of a New Testament Church; which is a company of men, called by the Gospel, grafted into Christ by baptism, animated...