Acts 5:3 But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? One of W. Jay's peculiarities was the manner in which he would surprise his hearers by a startling sentence. Preaching on the repentance of Judas he took occasion to attack the love of money, and at the close of one of the divisions of his subject, he cried out, "Avarice, avarice is the monsoon, the devil's trade wind from the Church into hell." At another time, speaking of the inconsistency of many professors of the gospel, after making a powerful appeal, he exclaimed, "Some of you, my dear brethren, are so inconsistent and undecided that if at this moment I saw the devil running away with you, I could not call out, 'Stop thief!' — he would but carry off his own property!" Parallel Verses KJV: But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? |
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