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Sapphira

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Sapphira [sæˈfaɪrə]
n
(Biographies) New Testament the wife of Ananias, who together with her husband was struck dead for fraudulently concealing their wealth from the Church (Acts 5)


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When one looks for Scriptural examples that a client might identify with to discover something of one's own interactional style, one might point to Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5) or Simon Magus (Acts 8) as examples of those with some of the tendencies characteristic of this type.
Callista, who has a younger sister, Sapphira, two, and who lives with her family, mum Alex, and dad John, 38, an engineer, in St Nicolas Park, Nuneaton, will finish her treatment next autumn.
336) This passage, although overly didactic (for a modern novel, not for a "gospel"), and other such negative effects are, in a very general way, similar to the deaths of Ananias and Sapphira in the Books of Acts (5:1-11), who die because they keep back part of the money they had promised to the early church.
 
 
 
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