{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3145","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":5,"chapter_to":5,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":1,"verse_to":1},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Apostolic Constitutions</b>: \"You shall not steal:\" [Exodus 20:15] for Achan, when he had stolen in Israel at Jericho, was stoned to death; [Joshua 7:1] and Gehazi, who stole, and told a lie, inherited the leprosy of Naaman; [2 Kings 5:27] and Judas, who stole the poor's money, betrayed the Lord of glory to the Jews, [John 12:6] and repented, and hanged himself, and burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out; [Matthew 27:5; Acts 1:18] and Ananias, and Sapphira his wife, who stole their own goods, and \"tempted the Spirit of the Lord,\" were immediately, at the sentence of Peter our fellow-apostle, struck dead. [Acts 5:1-11]<br/><i>— Apostolic Constitutions (Book VII), Section 1, II</i></p><p><b>Clement of Alexandria</b>: And the mystics say that he slew the Egyptian by a word only; as, certainly, Peter in the Acts is related to have slain by speech those who appropriated part of the price of the field, and lied.<br/><i>— The Stromata Book 1</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: Ananias: Grace of the Lord.<br/><i>— On Hebrew Names</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, and kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the Apostles' feet.\" The aggravating circumstance was, that the sin was concerted, and none other saw what was done.</p><p>This history touches Bishops too, and very forcibly. And the wife of Ananias was privy to the thing done: therefore he examines her. But perhaps some one will say that he dealt very harshly with her. What do you mean? What harshness? If for gathering sticks a man is to be stoned, much rather ought he for sacrilege; for this money was become sacred. He that has chosen to sell his goods and distribute them, and then withdraws them, is guilty of sacrilege. But if he is sacrilegious, who resumes from his own, much more he who takes from what is not his own. And do not think that because the consequence is not now the same, the crime will go unpunished.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 12</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: Entirely full of Satanic madness, he who seizes what is good impulsively and by necessity and violence, while at the same time lukewarm in his zeal for the value of the good things, having squandered all his possessions. Three signs occurring at the same time: knowledge of secrets; dread of inquiry of the mind; and, in addition to these, removal through commands.<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p><p><b>Pope Urban I</b>: And the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband. And great fear came upon all the Church, and upon as many as heard these things.\"</p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: For they both raised the dead, which God alone (can do), and restored the debilitated to their integrity, which none but Christ (can do); nay, they inflicted plagues too, which Christ would not do. For it did not beseem Him to be severe who had come to suffer. Smitten were both Ananias and Elymas -Ananias with death, Elymas with blindness-in order that by this very fact it might be proved that Christ had had the power of doing even such (miracles).<br/><i>— On Modesty</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"1f7384c245e54ff082ecc1ec0b1dbf2a1491bb26c33d65d2d4360db580c579fd","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3145,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"414481c0ae988c17dc908062976849a5eb0cf1d2313b5c88e5830a68eb9fc403","translator":null,"work":null}