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Sapphira

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Sapphira (səfī`rə), wife of Ananias 1 In the Acts of the Apostles , man who, with his wife Sapphira, held back part of a gift to the early Jerusalem church and lied about it. They were rebuked by Peter and fell dead. The name has become a term for liar.

2 High priest at Jerusalem (A.D.
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This engagement with the theme of wealth and poverty begins with the Magnificat (1:51-52) and moves on to include such well-known texts as the woes against the rich in the beatitudes (6:24), the special Lukan parable of the Rich Fool (12:13-21), the first/last saying of 13:31, (1) the special Lukan parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man (16:19-31), and the punishment of the cautious property owners Ananias and Sapphira in Acts (5:1-11).
Radical patronage in Luke-Acts by Heen, Erik M. / Currents in Theology and Mission
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Willow Springs is characterized by its independence from the controlling and commodifying grasp of the mainland and the mainstream: from the legendary maternal ancestor, Sapphira Wade, born in Africa and, according to legend, murderer of her slaveholding owner, to the islanders' refusal to sell their land to real estate developers, to their reluctance to build a bridge stronger than the wooden one that provides an impermanent connection to the mainland.
Gloria Naylor's Mama Day: bridging roots and routes by Lamothe, Daphne / African American Review
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