ethiopian eunuch Summary and Overview

the chief officer or prime minister of state of Candace (q.v.), queen of Ethiopia. He was converted to Christianity through the instrumentality of Philip (Act 8:27). The northern portion of Ethiopia formed the kingdom of Meroe, which for a long period was ruled over by queens, and it was probably from this kingdom that the eunuch came.

a Jewish proselyte, #Ac 8:26| etc., who was treasurer of Candace queen of Ethiopia, but who was converted to Christianity on a visit to Jerusalem, through philip the evangelist. Nothing is known of him after his return to Ethiopia.

THE ETHIOPIAN EU'NUCH the Jewish proselyte who, returning from some feast in Jerusalem, was met by Philip the evangelist and baptized. Acts 8:26 ff. He was a eunuch in the strict sense, not in its official sense of "courtier," and the treasurer of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians. Candace was the name of a dynasty, and not of individual monarchs.