Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Ananias . . . gave up the ghost . . . great fear came on all that heard these things—on those without the Christian circle; who, instead of disparaging the followers of the Lord Jesus, as they might otherwise have done on the discovery of such hypocrisy, were awed at the manifest presence of Divinity among them, and the mysterious power of throwing off such corrupt matter which rested upon the young Church.
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 5:5:
Leviticus 10:2
John 11:17-19
Acts 5:2
1 Corinthians 5:5
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