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1. Phebe Feminine of Phoebus, shining, a Greek epithet and proper name of the sun; and hence, in the feminine, signifying the moon.
Servant Our translators have hardly done Phebe justice in translating διακονον , servant, and προστατις , succourer; for the former is the term for deaconess or ministra, and the latter is patroness, being radically the same word as is rendered he that ruleth in Romans 12:8. The ability and eminence of Phebe appears from the apostle’s earnest commendation, from these her titles, from her travel and business, and, as Renan in his flippant style expresses it, “she bore in the folds of her robe the whole future of the Christian theology the writing which was to regulate the fate of the world.” When Phebe brought this great Epistle to the elders of Rome we are to conceive it as publicly read in the different congregations; and doubtless in due time copies were transcribed for deposit and regular public reading in each of them.
Cenchrea See notes introductory to Acts 28:0, and Acts 18:18.
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