Sapphira : wife of Ananias, a member of the church at Jerusalem. A legend finds the couple struck dead for misrepresenting the amount of their gifts to Saint Peter.
... for if, professing to make the complete surrender, we consciously Page 452 & willingly keep back one doit or farthing, we are thieves before God, committing the Biblical sin of Ananias & Sapphira,—stena eva sah,—conscious or half-conscious hypocrites,—mithyáchárah sa uchyate,—and, even if the holding back be unwilled or unconscious, still are we imperfect sadhakas not yet having the right ...
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