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Acts 5:4
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2 And he kept back part of the proceeds, his wife also being aware of it, and brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles’ feet.
3 aBut Peter said, “Ananias, why has bSatan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of the land for yourself?  
4 While it remained, was it not your own? And after it was sold, was it not in your own control? Why have you conceived this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God.”
5 Then Ananias, hearing these words, afell down and breathed his last. So great fear came upon all those who heard these things.  
6 And the young men arose and awrapped him up, carried him out, and buried him.  
7 Now it was about three hours later when his wife came in, not knowing what had happened.
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Acts 5:4

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.



Acts 5:3-6

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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