Acts 5:2 And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet. We read in French history that Louis XI. once proffered the entire department of Bologne to the "Blessed Virgin Mary." He drew up a deed, signed, sealed; he delivered it to the proper ecclesiastics of the Church. But with a peculiar perversity he kept all the revenues and taxes, appointing every year new collectors who might secure the income rigidly for himself without any peril of being tampered with by the priests. (C. S. Robinson, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet. |
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