“Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband.”
At that very instant she fell down at his feet and died. Then the young men came in and, finding her dead, carried her out and buried her - the parallelism is exact and merciless: Ananias hears judgment and dies; Sapphira hears judgment and dies. The 'very instant' (parachrēma, immediately) shows the causal connection is divine. No apostolic hand strikes; judgment comes through the Spirit itself. Luke's account is remarkably clinical, showing neither satisfaction nor sorrow, only the inexorable reality of lying to God.
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