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Pentecost, El Greco

Acts 5:8

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Peter answered her, “Tell me whether you sold the land for so much.” She said, “Yes, for so much.”

Fathers and councils · 5

Cyril of Jerusalem

John Chrysostom

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.

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  • “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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  • “…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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