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- proper noun Any of certain members of the early
Christian church . - proper noun A male
given name .
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- noun a habitual liar (after a New Testament character who was struck dead for lying)
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Examples
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If men of the first rank have a malice against any, they think it policy to employ others against them, and to play least in sight themselves, because of the odium that commonly attends it; but Ananias is not shamed to own himself a sworn enemy to
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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And, as he further argues, "Ananias is said to lie to God, because he lied to that Spirit in the apostles which enabled them to discern the secrets of men's hearts and actions, which being the property of God alone, he that lies to him must therefore lie to God, because he lies to one who has the incommunicable property of God, and consequently the divine essence."
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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I. Ananias is here ordered to go and look after him, to heal and help him; for he that causeth grief will have compassion.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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He entered the city of Damascus guided by friends who brought him to the path that led to the house of the person who would help him move forward, a man called Ananias.
How to Overcome Fear Marcos Witt 2007
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He entered the city of Damascus guided by friends who brought him to the path that led to the house of the person who would help him move forward, a man called Ananias.
How to Overcome Fear Marcos Witt 2007
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Luckily for him though, another chap called Ananias soon came along and seeing that Saul couldn't see
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Luckily for him though, another chap called Ananias soon came along and seeing that Saul couldn't see
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"Ananias" keeps still and winks to "Shimei," and "Shimei" comes out in the paper which they take in your neighbor's kitchen, ten times worse than t'other fellow.
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So you lose your temper, and come out in an article which you think is going to finish "Ananias," proving him a booby who doesn't know enough to understand even a lyceum-lecture, or else a person that tells lies.
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"Ananias," for instance, pitches into your lecture, we will say, in some paper taken by the people in your kitchen.
jesse74 commented on the word Ananias
A member of the first Christian community, who, with his wife Sapphira, was miraculously punished by Peter with sudden death for hypocrisy and falsehood (Acts v. i - io; cf. Josh. vii. 1 ff.). 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
February 21, 2012