Atti 2:45

45 e vendevano le possessioni, ed i beni; e li distribuivano a tutti, secondo che ciascuno ne avea bisogno.

Atti 2:45 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 2:45

And sold their possessions and goods.
&c.] Their houses and lands, their fields and vineyards, their goods, moveable or immoveable:

and parted them to all men;
that were of their society, not to others:

as every man had need:
the rich sold their estates, and divided them among the poor, or gave them such a portion thereof as their present exigencies required. This was done by Jews, and by Jews only; who, when they embraced the Gospel of Christ, were informed that the destruction of their city, and nation, was at hand; and therefore they sold their estates before hand, and put them to this use; which was necessary to be done, both for the support of the Gospel in Judea, and for the carrying and spreading of it among the Gentiles: but is not to be drawn into a precedent, or an example in after times; nor is ever any such thing proposed to the Christian churches, or exhorted to by any of the apostles.

Atti 2:45 In-Context

43 Ed ogni persona avea timore; e molti segni e miracoli si facevano dagli apostoli.

44 E tutti coloro che credevano erano insieme, ed aveano ogni cosa comune;

45 e vendevano le possessioni, ed i beni; e li distribuivano a tutti, secondo che ciascuno ne avea bisogno.

46 E perseveravano di pari consentimento ad esser tutti i giorni nel tempio; e rompendo il pane di casa in casa, prendevano il cibo insieme, con letizia, e semplicità di cuore,

47 lodando Iddio, ed avendo grazia presso tutto il popolo. E il Signore aggiungeva alla chiesa ogni giorno coloro che erano salvati.