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Show Celebrated for Untruthfulness. Ananias was a Bible diameter particularly par-ticularly celebrated lor his untruthful-nes. untruthful-nes. As a member of the young church of Jerusalem its conspired with his wife, Sapphira. to tuake false pretenses pre-tenses respecting their gift of property proper-ty to the community , of the brethren, and was, with his wife, stricken dead. Ananias has since become the name in common parlance for one who notoriously no-toriously takes liberties with the tnnh. |