Acts 5:3 (WEB)
But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the price of the land?
Fathers and councils · 11
Cyril of Jerusalem
“Peter was not with Ananias and Sapphira when they sold their possessions, but he was present by the Spirit; Why, he says, hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost?” — editor's note: Acts v. 3.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X I.19Conference I
“Peter also says to Ananias: “Why hath Satan tempted thine heart, to lie to the Holy Ghost?”” — editor's note: Acts v. 3.
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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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Gregory of Nyssa
“And of the Holy Spirit also, Peter says to Ananias, “Why hath Satan filled thine heart, to lie to the Holy Ghost?” showing that the Holy Spirit was a true witness, aware of what Ananias had dared to do in secret, and by Whom the manifestation of the secret was made to Peter.” — editor's note: Acts v. 3.
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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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Ambrose of Milan
“And Peter teaches that the same is the Holy Spirit Who is the Spirit of the Lord, when he says: “Ananias, why has it seemed good to thee to tempt and to lie to the Holy Spirit?”” — editor's note: Acts v. 3.
Read the whole comment“Thou hast not lied unto men but unto God.”” — editor's note: Acts v. 3, 4.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“XXX. They who say and teach these things, and moreover call Him another Paraclete in the sense of another God, who know that blasphemy against Him alone cannot be forgiven, and who branded with such fearful infamy Ananias and Sapphira for having lied to the Holy Ghost, what do you think of these men?” — editor's note: Acts v. 3, etc.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“Thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.”” — editor's note: Acts v. 3, 4.
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Cross-references · 19
Cited together in On 'Not Three Gods'.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.9.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.9.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.9.
Cited together in On 'Not Three Gods'.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.9.
Cited together in On 'Not Three Gods'.
Cited together in On 'Not Three Gods'.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.31.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.31.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.31.
Cited together in On 'Not Three Gods'.
Cited together in On 'Not Three Gods'.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.31.
Cited together in On 'Not Three Gods'.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.31.
Cited together in On 'Not Three Gods'.
Cited together in On 'Not Three Gods'.
Cited together in On 'Not Three Gods'.