Acts 5:4

Cyril of Jerusalem

• Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures Lecture 17

  “Whiles it remained was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart?” — editor's note: Ib. v. 4.

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Jerome

• Jerome, Letters Letter 53

  “If your property is in your own power, sell it: if not, cast it from you.” — editor's note: Cf. Acts v. 4.

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• Jerome, Letters Letter 109

  “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.

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• Jerome, Letters Letter 118

  “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.

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• Jerome, Letters Letter 130

  “…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

• Tertullian, On Modesty Chapter 21

  “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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Basil the Great

• Basil the Great, On the Holy Spirit Chapter 15

  “Ye have not lied unto men, but unto God,” show that sins against the Holy Spirit and against God are the same; and thus you might learn that in every operation the Spirit is closely conjoined with, and inseparable from, the Father and the Son.” — editor's note: Acts v. 9 and 4. “Thou hast not lied,” said to Ananias, interpolated into the rebuke of Sapphira.

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Ambrose of Milan

• Ambrose of Milan, On the Holy Spirit III.9Book III

  “Thou hast not lied unto men but unto God.”” — editor's note: Acts v. 3, 4.

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Cyprian of Carthage

• Cyprian of Carthage, Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.31Book III

  “Thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.”” — editor's note: Acts v. 3, 4.

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• Romans 8:9

  Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.9.

• Romans 8:10

  Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.9.

• 1 Corinthians 7:40

  Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.9.

• 2 Corinthians 13:3

  Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.9.

• Deuteronomy 23:21

  Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.31.

• Deuteronomy 23:22

  Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.31.

• Deuteronomy 23:23

  Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.31.

• Psalm 50:14

  Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.31.

• Psalm 50:15

  Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.31.

• Ecclesiastes 5:4

  Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.31.

• Jeremiah 48:10

  Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.31.