Acts 8:27 - Exposition

Was over for had the charge of, A.V. ; who for and, A.V. Candace. According to Pithy, the queens of Ethiopia, who reigned at Meroe, were so named through a long course of years ('Nat. Hist.,' Acts 6:2 , Acts 6:5 -37). Dion Cassius speaks of a warlike Queen of Ethiopia of that name, who was brought to terms by Caius Petronius in the year A.U.C. 732 (54.5, 4). Eusebius says that the custom still continued in his day of the Ethiopians being governed by a queen. Had come to Jerusalem , etc. He was doubtless a proselyte of the gate. Eusebius, in the place above cited, speaks of him as the first Gentile convert, and as the first fruits of the faithful in the whole world. He adds, as Irenaeus before him had hinted (3. 12.8), that he is reported to have preached the gospel to the Ethiopians, by which the prophecy of Psalms 68:31 was fulfilled. Later traditions speak of Candace as baptized by him.