She fell down immediately at his feet and died. The young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her by her husband.
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She fell down immediately at his feet and died. The young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her by her husband.
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Then she fell doune strayght waye at his fete and yelded vp the goost. And the yonge men came in and founde her ded and caryed her out and buryed her by her husbande.
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Then she fell downe straightway at his feete, and yeelded vp the ghost: and the yong men came in, and found her dead, and caried her out, and buried her by her husband.
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- Acts 5:5 Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and died. Great fear came on all who heard these things.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 10 Then fell she down straightway at his feet,…
10 Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband.
Ver. 10. Then fell she down] Melancthon makes mention of a cursing woman, that had her neck writhed by the devil, as her mouth was full of cursing and bitterness, A.D. 1551.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The same sins meet with the same punishment; God…
The same sins meet with the same punishment; God is no respecter of persons, Jew or Gentile, male or female.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Then fell she down straightway at his feet,.... In…
Then fell she down straightway at his feet,.... In like manner, and by the same hand of God as her husband before:
and yielded up the ghost; died directly:
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and the young men came in and found her dead; the young men who had been to inter her husband came into the house at that instant, and found her dead upon the floor, at the feet of the Apostle Peter:
and carrying her forth, buried her by her husband; as it was usual with the Jews to do. So they say (i), that in the cave of Machpelah were buried Adam and Eve, Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, and Jacob and Leah.
(i) Cippi Hebraici, p. 4. T. Bab. Sota, fol. 13. 1.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The Church - This is the first time it…
The Church - This is the first time it is mentioned: and here is a native specimen of a New Testament Church; which is a company of men, called by the Gospel, grafted into Christ by baptism, animated by love, united by all kind of fellowship, and disciplined by the death of Ananias and Sapphira.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 10. Yielded up the ghost] See Ac 5:5.…
Verse 10. Yielded up the ghost] See Ac 5:5. It was not by Peter's words, nor through Peter's prayers, nor through shame, nor through remorse, that this guilty pair died, but by an immediate judgment of God. The question of the salvation of Ananias and Sapphira has not been a little agitated; and most seem inclined to hope that, though their sin was punished by this awful display of the Divine judgment, mercy was extended to their souls. For my own part, I think their sin was what the apostle, 1Jo 5:16, calls a sin unto death; a sin which must be punished with temporal death, or the death of the body, while mercy was extended to the soul. It was right in this infant state of the Church to show God's displeasure against deceit, fraud, and hypocrisy: had this guilty pair been permitted to live after they had done this evil, this long-suffering would have been infallibly abused by others; and, instead of leading them who had sinned to repentance, might have led them to hardness of heart by causing them to presume on the mercy of God. That hypocrisy may be afraid to show her face, God makes these two an example of his justice; but, because they had not the ordinary respite, we may presume that God extended mercy to them, though cut off almost in the act of sin. Their case, however, cannot become a precedent, allowing them to have received mercy; because those who have seen in this case the severity of God must expect much sorer punishment, if, with such an example before their eyes, they should presume on the mercy of their Maker: this would be doing evil that good might come, and the perdition of such would be just.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain buried her by her husband--The later Jews buried before…
buried her by her husband--The later Jews buried before sunset of the day of death.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 10. Then fell she down straightway at his feet]…
10. Then fell she down straightway at his feet] Close to the place where the money, for which they had sinned, had been laid, and where perhaps it was still lying. For we cannot think that St Peter would be willing to mix an offering given in such a hypocritical spirit with the more pure offerings of the other brethren. It may be that as he spoke, in Act_5:8, he pointed to the money still lying there unaccepted, “Did ye sell the land for so much?”
and yielded up the ghost] The verb is only used in the N. T. of the death of this husband and wife, and of the end of Herod Agrippa (Act_12:23).
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and the young men came in, and found her dead] They came to join the congregation again, for the worship appears not to have ceased during the time between the death of Ananias and the arrival of Sapphira. And this may be the explanation of the wife’s ignorance of her husband’s fate. None had gone forth but the younger men to bury the dead body.
and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband] Probably all that was required to be done was to roll a stone from some cave’s mouth and place the body within.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And she fell down immediately for then fell she…
And she fell down immediately for then fell she down straightway, A.V.; gave up for yielded up, A.V.; they carried her out and buried her for carrying her forth buried her. She fell down immediately. The Spirit who killeth and maketh alive thus vindicated his discernment and his power, and testified to the truth of his prophet St. Peter, by whose mouth he had just foretold the death of Sapphira. Gave up the ghost (ver. 5, note). Buried her by her husband. What a strange example of conjugal unity! One in their Jewish religion, one in their conversion to the faith of Christ, one in their hypocrisy, one in their terrible death, one in their common grove! one in the undying record of their guilt in the Book which is read by every nation under heaven!
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B. W. Johnson 1891 · Public Domain 10. The young men came in. It had required…
10. The young men came in. It had required three hours to carry Ananias out of the city to the tomb and return. The gloomy incident occurred and is recorded for a wise purpose: to teach the church in the outset that even if we can deceive men, we cannot hope to deceive God. It is an example.
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J. W. McGarvey 1914 · Public Domain See notes on verse 8
See notes on verse 8
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