Bible Dictionary: Women: Phoebe

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Romans 16:1,2
I commend to you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:
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Phoebe
... Another thought which we may connect with the name of Phoebe is the
characteristic place of women in Christianity. The place of ...
/.../maclaren/romans corinthians to ii corinthians chap v/phoebe.htm

The Women of the Apostolic Age
... Corinth, of Claudia of Rome, of Euodias, of Syntyche, of Persis, of Phoebe, or of ...
In an especial manner these women were working for the uplifting of their sex ...
/.../brittain/women of early christianity/ii the women of the.htm

Excursus on the Deaconess of the Early Church.
... Paul in his Epistle to the Romans (xvi.1) where he speaks of Phoebe as being a ... seems
not unlikely from the fact that the age for the admission of women to this ...
/.../schaff/the seven ecumenical councils/excursus on the deaconess of.htm

Entering the Gospel Field
... the preachers are not doing their duty, because in the second verse the Lord commanded
the other ministers to assist Phoebe. If then the women's only service ...
/.../cole/trials and triumphs of faith/chapter x entering the gospel.htm

Mothers, Daughters, and Wives in Israel
... and watched for His sacred body, could not have been quite solitary in Palestine;
we find their sisters in a Dorcas, a Lydia, a Phoebe, and those women of whom ...
/.../edersheim/sketches of jewish social life/chapter 9 mothers daughters and.htm

Church Government.
... There were also, in the earliest times, women called deaconesses, such as Phoebe,
who is mentioned in the Epistle to the Romans (xvi.1.). These deaconesses ...
/.../chapter xvii church government.htm

Woman's Position in the Army
... the track which all unconsciously Mrs. Booth was blazing for a host of women to
tread, publishing the Salvation of God, was in defence of Mrs. Phoebe Palmer, a ...
/.../carpenter/the angel adjutant of twice born men/iii womans position in the.htm

Deacons and Deaconesses.
... It opened to pious women and virgins, and chiefly to widows, a most suitable field ...
Paul mentions Phoebe as a deaconess of the church of Cenchreae, the port of ...
/.../history of the christian church volume i/section 62 deacons and deaconesses.htm

Concerning Lowliness of Mind.
... 6. And that the disciples too were bound up with Paul with all perfectness; [424]
and that not men only, but women also, hear what he says about Phoebe. ...
/.../chrysostom/on the priesthood/concerning lowliness of mind.htm

Purity and Peace in the Present Lord
... Two Christian women, Euodia[1] and Syntyche, evidently well-known Church members,
possibly officials, "deaconesses," like Phoebe (Romans 16:1), were at ...
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