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• SoulActs 5:5Acts 5:10Acts 12:23
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The passages, in Bible order (3)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 3 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Acts 5:5

   On hearing these words, Ananias fell down and died. And great fear came over all who heard what had happened.

   ›Commentary on Acts 5:52 voices

   “And Ananias, hearing these words ... - Seeing that his guilt was known, and being charged with the enormous crime of attempting to deceive God. He had not expected to be thus exposed; and it is clear that the exposure and the charge came upon him unexpectedly and terribly, like a bolt of thunder. Fell down - Greek: Having fallen down. Gave up the ghost - This is an unhappy translation. The original means simply “he expired,” or “he died.” Compare the notes on Mat 27:

   “He died upon the spot: Ananias, hearing these words, was speechless, in the same sense that he was who was charged with intruding into the wedding feast without a wedding garment: he had nothing to say for himself; but this was not all: he was struck speechless with a witness, for he was struck dead: He fell down, and gave up the ghost.

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2. Acts 5:10

   At that instant she fell down at his feet and died. Then the young men came in and, finding her dead, carried her out and buried her beside her husband.

   ›Commentary on Acts 5:102 voices

   “Then fell she down straightway at his feet,.... In like manner, and by the same hand of God as her husband before: and yielded up the ghost; died directly: and the young men came in and found her dead; the young men who had been to inter her husband came into the house at that instant, and found her dead upon the floor, at the feet of the Apostle Peter: and carrying her forth, buried her by her husband; as it was usual with the Jews to do.

   “Yielded up the ghost - See Act 5:5. It was not by Peter’s words, nor through Peter’s prayers, nor through shame, nor through remorse, that this guilty pair died, but by an immediate judgment of God. The question of the salvation of Ananias and Sapphira has not been a little agitated; and most seem inclined to hope that, though their sin was punished by this awful display of the Divine judgment, mercy was extended to their souls.

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3. Acts 12:23

   Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.

   ›Commentary on Acts 12:232 voices

   “Because he gave not glory to God - He willingly received it to himself, and by this sacrilege filled up the measure of his iniquities. So then vengeance tarried not. And he was eaten by worms, or vermin - How changed!

   “We can point you also to the deaths of some provincial rulers, who in their last hours had painful memories of their sin in persecuting the followers of Christ. Vigellius Saturninus, who first here used the sword against us, lost his eyesight.

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