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The rest
Unbelievers, deterred by the fate of Ananias from uniting themselves to the church under false pretences.
Join himself (κολλᾶσθαι)
See on Luk 15:15; and Luk 10:11. In all but two instances (Rom 12:9; 1Co 6:17), the word implies a forced, unnatural, or unexpected union. Thus Philip would not, without a special command, have “joined himself” to the chariot of the Ethiopian prince (Act 8:29). Saul's attempt to join himself to the apostles was regarded by them with suspicion (Act 9:26); and the fact that certain persons “clave to” Paul in Athens is expressly contrasted with the attitude of the citizens at large. The sense of an unnatural union comes out clearly in 1Co 6:16.