Word: sapphira
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peter, who struck down the famed pair of liars, Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5: 1-10) after they "sold a possession, and kept back part of the price...
...early Christian community everything was held in common; but Ananias and Sapphira, who had sold a piece of land, held back some of the money. When Peter took them to task they "fell down and gave up the ghost...
...SAPPHIRA AND THE SLAVE GIRL-Willa Gather-Knopf...
This week appeared Willa Cather's first novel in five years. It is an immaculately written account of a few months in the life of a family in Virginia. The year is 1856. The family is that of sober, plebeian Henry Colbert and his subtle, suffering, tony wife, Sapphira. They live, well-supplied with slaves, a little beyond the edge of civilization, within the fringes of the mountains. Sapphira's widowed daughter, an abolitionist at heart, does good among the mountaineers and the slaves. Sapphira's husband, another, spends most of his time at the mill, earnestly...
Willa Cather could not possibly write a bad novel; but Sapphira and the Slave Girl bears witness that she can write a dull one. This dullness, though, is the sum of many honest virtues: a nicely formed story, characters drawn with delicate authority, sharp, evocative vignettes of Virginia living & landscape. The whole work has the well-made, healthful, sober clarity of a Dutch interior. And like many unexceptionable people who inspire neither more nor less than respect, Sapphira is not too dull to be pleasant reading...