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 be willing to mix an offering given in such a hypocritical spirit with the more pure offerings of the other brethren. It may be that as he spoke, in Acts 5:8, he pointed to the money still lying there unaccepted, "Did ye sell the land for so much?"

and yielded up the ghost The verb is only used in the N. T. of the death of this husband and wife, and of the end of Herod Agrippa (Acts 12:23).

and the young men came in, and found her dead They came to join the congregation again, for the worship appears not to have ceased during the time between the death of Ananias and the arrival of Sapphira. And this may be the explanation of the wife's ignorance of her husband's fate. None had gone forth but the younger men to bury the dead body.

and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband Probably all that was required to be done was to roll a stone from some cave's mouth and place the body within.

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