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Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
Deaconess
Deaconess
Rom.
16:1, 3, 12;
Phil.
4:2, 3;
1 Tim.
3:11; 5:9, 10;
Titus
2:3, 4). In these passages it is evident that females were then engaged in various Christian ministrations. Pliny makes mention of them also in his letter to Trajan (A.D. 110).
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