Jerome : Then, as you know, believers sold their possessions and brought the prices of them and laid them down at the apostles' feet: a symbolic act designed to show that people must trample on covetousness. — LETTER 71.4 Oecumenius : Placing honors at the feet of the apostles, but not on their hands, shows the great honor and reverence of those who brought them. The fact that they did not dare to give them to the hands indicates that they made them stewards and dispensers, as if consuming from common funds, and not as personal gifts through their hands. Moreover, what was placed at the feet constituted honor toward them and removed the reproach of the poverty of those supported. And they gave as if from common funds being administered. — Commentary on Acts