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Act 5:2. Ἐνοσφίσατο, he fraudulently kept back) The sin of Achan and that of Ananias were in many respects similar, at the beginning of the churches of the Old and New Testament respectively; and the same verb, ἐνοσφίσατο, fraudulently appropriated or kept, is used of Achan, in Jos 7:1. The former, however, in the Old Testament, according to the direction of God, was killed by the hand of men; the latter, in the New Testament, by the Divine hand, at the word of the apostle. The sin of Judas also was similar to that of Ananias.-ἀπὸ τῆς τιμῆς, of the price) These two seem not to have believed that Christianity would last long.-συνειδυίας, being conscious of it) They sinned the more grievously, since they might have mutually dissuaded one another from the sin.-ἐνέγκας μέρος τὶ, having brought a certain part) just as if it were the whole. Ananias however had wished to seem to have brought the whole: therefore he had not kept back much.