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n. - An habitual liar, after a character in Acts 5 who was struck dead for lying to Peter.

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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.
  • Luckily for him though, another chap called Ananias soon came along and seeing that Saul couldn't see
  • "Ananias," for instance, pitches into your lecture, we will say, in some paper taken by the people in your kitchen.
  • And Ananias went his way and entered into the house.
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