Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
While it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power?—from which we see how purely voluntary were all these sacrifices for the support of the infant community.
not lied to men but God—to men so entirely the instruments of the directing Spirit that the lie was rather told to Him: language clearly implying both the distinct personality and the proper divinity of the Holy Ghost.
why hath Satan filled—"why . . . fill—"why hast thou suffered him to fill"
thine heart—so criminally entertaining his suggestion? Compare Acts 5:4, "why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart?" And see John 13:2, John 13:27.
to lie to the Holy Ghost—to men under His supernatural illumination.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Acts 5:4:
Genesis 18:12
Leviticus 10:2
Numbers 5:6-8
Matthew 1:18
Acts 5:2
Acts 5:3-6
1 Corinthians 5:5
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