Acts 5:2 (WEB)
and kept back part of the price, his wife also being aware of it, then brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles’ feet.
Fathers and councils · 7
Ambrose of Milan
“Ananias was poor, when after selling his land he brought the money to the apostles, and was not able with it to pay his debt, but involved himself the more.” — editor's note: Acts v. 1, 2.
Read the whole comment“He acted falsely as regards the price he got for his land, for he sold it and laid at the apostles’ feet part of the price, pretending it was the whole amount.” — editor's note: Acts v. 2.
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Gregory the Great
“Ananias had vowed money to God (Acts v. 2 seq.), which, afterwards, overcome by diabolical persuasion, he withheld.” — the author cites it
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Jerome
“I have read of the javelin of Phinehas, of the harshness of Elijah, of the jealous anger of Simon the zealot, of the severity of Peter in putting to death Ananias and Sapphira, and of the firmness of Paul who, when Elymas the sorcerer withstood the ways of the Lord, doomed him to lifelong blindness.” — editor's note: Acts v. 1–10.
Read the whole comment“I will even go farther and say: keep back nothing for yourself because you fear to be some day poor, lest by so doing you share the condemnation of Ananias and Sapphira; but give everything to the poor and make to yourself friends of the mammon of unrighteousness that they may receive you into everlasting habitations.” — editor's note: Acts v. 1–10.
Read the whole comment“…true faith never fears, they drew down on themselves suddenly the avenging stroke, which was meant not in cruelty towards them but as a warning to others.” — editor's note: Acts v. 1–10.
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Tertullian
“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).” — editor's note: Acts v. 1–6.
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Cross-references · 13
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII I.24.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII I.24.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII I.24.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy III.11.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy III.11.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII I.24.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII I.24.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII I.24.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.9.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy III.11.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII I.24.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII I.24.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.9.