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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 5:2

Kept back part of the price - Ananias and Sapphira were evidently persons who professed faith in Christ with the rest of the disciples. While all were making sacrifices for the present necessity, they came forward among the rest, pretending to bring all the money they had got for a possession, κτημα , (of what kind we know not), which they had sold. A part of this price, however, they kept back, not being willing to trust entirely to the bounty of Providence, as the others did; thinking... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 5:3

Why hath Satan filled thine heart - The verb πληροειν , which we translate to fill, Kypke has showed by many examples to signify, to instigate, excite, impel, etc., and it was a common belief, as well among the heathens as among the Jews and Christians, that, when a man did evil, he was excited to it by the influence and malice of an evil spirit. It is strange that, by the general consent of mankind, sin against God has been ever considered so perfectly unnatural, and so evil in itself,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 5:4

Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? - See the note on Acts 5:2 , and see that also on Acts 2:44 ; (note). read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 5:5

Fell down, and gave up the ghost - Πεσων εξεψυξε , Falling down, he expired, breathed his last: "Gave up the ghost" is a very improper translation here. See the notes on Genesis 25:8 , and on Matthew 27:50 ; (note). Two things may be remarked here: That the sin of this person was of no ordinary magnitude, else God would not have visited it with so signal a punishment. 2. That Peter must have had the power to discern the state of the heart, else he had not known the perfidy of... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 5:6

The young men arose - Some of the stout young men belonging to the disciples then present, who were the fittest to undertake a work of this kind, which required considerable bodily exertion. Buried him - This was on the same day in which he died. It was a clear case that he was dead, and dead by a judgment of God that would not be revoked. As therefore it was no case of suspended animation, there was no reason to delay the burial. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 5:9

To tempt the Spirit of the Lord? - So the Holy Ghost, God, and the Spirit of the Lord, are the same person. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 5:3

Verse 3 3.And Peter said. How did Peter know Ananias’ fraud (and purloining?) Undoubtedly by the revelation of the Spirit. Therefore, Luke signifieth unto us, that the apostles did after a sort represent God’s person, and supply his room. If the Spirit of God, by the mouth of a mortal man, do so sore urge an hypocrite, being otherwise painted with the beautiful color of virtues, how shall the reprobate abide the voice of God himself, with the sound of the trumpet, when they shall appear before... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 5:4

Verse 4 4.Did it not remaining. This amplifieth the offense because he sinned, being enforced by no necessity. For seeing it is no just or lawful excuse to have been provoked by some other means, how much worse is it to run headlong unto wickedness willingly, and, as it were of set purpose to pull down God’s vengeance? We gather out of this, that no man was enforced to sell his goods or lands. For Peter saith, that Ananias had free liberty to keep both his land and his money; because in the... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 5:5

Verse 5 5.When Ananias heard these things. The death of Ananias doth, indeed, declare and prove the force of the word, which Paul cloth highly extol; to wit, that it is the savor of death unto death to those which perish, (2 Corinthians 2:16.) He speaketh, indeed, of the spiritual death of the soul, but there was a visible sign in the body of Ananias of that punishment which cannot be seen with the eyes of men. He was not slain with sword, by force, nor hand, but was stricken dead with the only... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 5:7

Verse 7 7.That punishment wherewith the Lord punished Sapphira containeth no new thing, save only that the example was the more confirmed thereby. And it came to pass by the certain providence of God, that the Church should see apart the obstinate wickedness and treacherous mind of them both. Seeing their faults were alike, they might have been known together; but this was more fit and profitable for the Church, that they might severally bewray their own wickedness. Neither was Sapphira... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 5:2

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 5:3

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 5:4

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 5:5

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 5:6

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 5:9

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 5:3

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 5:4

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 5:5

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 5:7

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