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On the back seat was Simon Jefferson whose hairy hand gripped a halter fastened to a riderless horse: the very horse which should have been between the shafts of the Gregory buggy. Miss Sapphira stared at Abbott, speechless. So this is what he had meant by wanting the air unstrained by window-screens. Studying, indeed! Abbott, in his turn, stared speechlessly at the led horse.
Impotent in their coiling arms, he was borne away to his doom, that thereby he might complete the reparation of his hideous offence, and deliver Sapphira from the bondage of a wedlock which Charles of Burgundy had never intended her to endure.
Did not Judas suffer many things with Christ during the time of his public ministry? Did not Ananias and Sapphira suffer, for a season, with the apostles and church at Jerusalem? What was it then that lost them?
Who was she?" "Miss Sapphira Clinton," he answered as, by a common impulse, they began walking toward Hamilton Gregory's house. "Bob Clinton's sister, and my landlady." The more Abbott thought of his adventure, the darker it grew; before they, reached their destination, it had become a deep gray. "Do you mean the 'Brother Clinton' that couldn't get 'through'?"
Mixed Constitution of the Church of Christ benevolent Spirit of the primitive Believers at Jerusalem Anxiety of Ananias and Sapphira to appear as zealous and liberal as others Ananias repairs to the Apostles to deposit the price of his Possessions is detected in Deception and dies similar Deceit and Death of Sapphira Nature and Progress of Apostasy peculiar Guilt of Sapphira Agency of Satan distinctly marked diabolical influence ascertained consolatory Sentiments suggested to Christians.
'I am obliged to Mrs Pansey for the way in which she has distorted facts. 'I fear, indeed, that Mrs Pansey exaggerates, said Dr Pendle, shaking his head. 'With all due respect, bishop, she is a wicked old Sapphira! cried Miss Whichello, and forthwith produced a bundle of papers out of her pocket.
In the cartoon of the 'Death of Ananias, carping objectors were ready to suggest that Raphael had committed an error in time by introducing Sapphira in the background counting her ill-gotten gains, at the moment when her no less guilty husband has fallen down in the agonies of death. It was hours afterwards that Sapphira entered into the presence of the apostles.
"I wonder," Simon Jefferson growled, "why somebody doesn't badger me to go to church!" Indignant because Fran had fled the pleasing fields of his interested vision, he paused, as if to invite antagonism; but all avoided the anticlimax. He announced, "This talk has excited me. If we can't live and let live, I'll go and take my meals at Miss Sapphira Clinton's."
"Bob will hunt for you, Grace, if he gets back with Abbott before ourtrain leaves. Miss Sapphira said she was looking for him any minute, and that was a good while ago." "If you can't keep him from finding me," Grace said, "let him find. I do not consider that I am acting in the wrong.
In his commentary on the alleged communistic existence of the Apostles at Jerusalem the Saint emphasises the fact that their communism was voluntary: 'That this was in consequence not merely of the miraculous signs, but of their own purpose, is manifest from the case of Ananias and Sapphira. He further insists on the fact that the members of this community were animated by unusual fervour: 'From the exceeding ardour of the givers none was in want. Further down, in the same homily, St.
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