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Ananias and Sapphira

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As told at the beginning of Acts chapter 5 Ananias and Sapphira [...] sold their land but secretly withheld a portion of the proceeds. Ananias presented his donation to Peter. Peter replied, "Why is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit?" Peter pointed out that Ananias was in control of the money and could give or keep it as he saw fit, but had withheld a portion of it. Peter stated that Ananias had lied not to men, but to God. Ananias died on the spot and was carried out. Everyone who heard about the incident feared the Lord. Three hours after Ananias' death his wife arrived, unaware of what had happened. Peter asked her the price of the land that she and Ananias had sold, and she stated the same untruthful price that Ananias had given. She also fell dead.


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Smite the offense and the offender spare.
When Ananias and Sapphira lied
Falsehood, had you been there, had surely died.
When money-changers in the Temple sat,
At money-changing you’d have whirled the “cat”
(That John-the-Baptist of the modern pen)
And all those brokers would have cried amen!

Ambrose Bierce. Shapes of Clay: To a Censor (1905)
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 No name to send me, of another sound,
 Than wicked Ananias? send your elders
 Hither to make atonement for you quickly,
 And give me satisfaction; or out goes
 The fire; and down th' alembics, and the furnace,
 Piger Henricus, or what not. Thou wretch!
 Both sericon and bufo shall be lost,

Ben Jonson. The Alchemist (1610)
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