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Ethiopian Eunuch
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
or ETHIOPIAN EUNUCH . According to Acts 8:27 , an Ethiopian eunuch, minister of Candace , queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, was met shortly after the martyrdom of Stephen by the deacon Philip when returning from a religious journey to Jerusalem, and converted to Christianity. The confession of faith put into his mouth in Acts 8:37 (AV [Note: Authorized Version.] ) is now universally admitted to be an early interpolation. Assuming the Lukan authorship of the Acts, the source of the above narrative may have been personal information received from Philip (cf. Acts 21:8 ). Like the baptism of Cornelius by St. Peter, the case of the Ethiopian eunuch marked an important stage in the question of the admission of the Gentiles to the Christian Church.
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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Ethiopian Eunuch'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hdb/e/ethiopian-eunuch.html. 1909.
