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Act 5:3. Ἐπλήρωσεν) hath filled, viz. with audacity and fraud, without there being any resistance made to him on thy part. Ananias himself perhaps did not think that Satan was lurking beneath the temptation. The fulness of heart which comes from Satan is the highest degree of wickedness.-ψεύσασθαί σε) that thou shouldest deceive, as far as it lay in thy power, as if the Holy Spirit did not know thy deception: Act 5:9. Ψεύδομαι, with the Accusative occurs, Deu 33:29, LXX., ψεύσονταί σε οἱ ἐχθροί σου: thence in Psalms 66. (in Sept. 65) 3; Job 6:10; Job 8:18. It is more expressive than if joined with the Dative.[40]-τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ Ἅγιον, the Holy Spirit) Who is in us (comp. 2Co 13:3, “Christ speaking in me”), 1Th 4:8, “He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us His Holy Spirit;” and by whose direction the goods of the Church are administered.
[40] With the Accus. “to deceive a person by a lie:” with the Dat. ver. 4, “to tell a lie to or in reference to a person.”-E. and T.