Verse 4
4. Not thine own He could have kept his own and be held as maintaining his own right unquestioned.
Sold These questions of Peter show that the bestowment of goods was perfectly voluntary and not a law, and that the crime was a free and deliberate act in its successive stages.
Lied His crime was a lie, and before God every liar is worthy of death. The wonder is not that a liar should be struck dead, but that liars should be allowed by God to live. It becomes modern sinners not to cavil at Ananias’ fate, but to wonder at the mercy of its not being their own.
Unto God That is, unto God the Spirit. That Spirit, then, is a Divine Person. He is not merely an emanation from God, but he is God emanating from God God in emanation, God going forth in his holiness and power. This is, therefore, an important text in explanation of the personality of the Spirit.
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