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 unquestionably, we must place the training he had received in the Rabbinic schools of Jerusalem. Next, we must take account of the modification, to which that training necessarily was subjected, from the mere circumstance that he had become a Christian, and as such had to correlate his old beliefs with his new discipleship. Then we have to give a great place to his personal experience of Christian women, such as were, if with St. Chrysostom we so read the name, Junia, who was accounted "of note among the apostles," and Phoebe, the trusted deaconess of Cenchreæ, and the ladies, Euodia and Syntyche, who were evidently the leading members of the Philippian Church, and Priscilla, who had been the teacher in the faith of his eloquent friend, Apollos.

Finally, we have to allow for his pastoral experience, which brought home to him the special risks which attached to feminine action in the churches, and the necessity of taking effectual measures to protect modesty against