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From the book: The Concessions of Trinitarians by John Williams
Acts v. 3, 4: “But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled “thy heart to lie to the holy spirit, and to keep back [part] of the price of the land? 4. .... Thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.” — Ver. 9. Then Peter said unto her, How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the spirit of the Lord?” &c.
To lie to the holy spirit. — Thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
Why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to us in whom the Holy Spirit is resident? Thou hast not lied unto mere men, but unto God, who dwelleth in us. — MOSHEIM: Commentaries on the Affairs of the Christians, vol. i. p. 293. [Similarly, PYLE and others.]
That thou shouldst endeavour to deceive us apostles, who are endowed with the Holy Spirit; that is, who have received extraordinary divine gifts; with whom God is always present, and who are aided by his Spirit, so that they can very easily distinguish truth from falsehood. — SCHLEUSNER: Lex. in Nov. Test. v. IIvevua, 22.
Ananias had not indeed designed to deceive the true God himself (see ver. 4), but the apostles. The holy spirit, therefore, is the same as “us full of the holy spirit” (vi. 3), in which sense the phrase occurs in chap. vii. 51. – KUINOEL.
The term God is never [in Scripture] expressly attributed to the Holy Spirit, though it is usual to infer it from Acts v. 4, where Peter, who in the third verse had asked Ananias, “Why hath Satan filled thy heart to lie to the Holy Spirit?” says, “Thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.” But, in our opinion, this deduction is not valid; for by the Holy Spirit are to be understood the gifts of the Holy Spirit, with which the apostles were furnished, and spoke in the name of God. Persons, therefore, who lie to the apostles speaking by the Holy Spirit of God, are rightly said to lie to the Holy Spirit; as those who despise the apostles are said to despise the Lord, and those who despise the Lord Jesus despise Him that sent him. — LIMBORCH: Theol. Christ. lib. ii. cap. 17, $ 23.
I do not say, that the Spirit is anywhere in Scripture directly called God: and although the writers on this subject have repeatedly said that this name is given him by implication, because, Acts v. 3, 4, lying to the Holy Ghost is stated as the same with lying to God; and our bodies are called, 1 Cor. vi. 19, the temple of the Holy Ghost, and 1 Cor. iii. 16, the temple of God; yet I would not rest so important an article of faith upon this kind of verbal criticism. — PRINCIPAL HILL: Lectures in Divinity, vol. i. pp. 440–41.
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