Acts viii. 26.CANDACE, the name of an Ethiopian Queen, whose Eunuch coming to Jerusalem to worship the Lord, was baptized by Philip the Deacon, near Bethsura, in the way to Gaza, as he was returning to his own Country; as we shall relate in the Article of Philip the Deacon. Some are of opinion, that the word Candace signified Sovereign Authority, and that this was the common name of all those Queens, who reigned in the Island, or Peninsula of Meroë; for this is the Country here meant by Ethiopia. Pliny1 testifies, that the Government of this Country was generally in the hands of Women, and that there had already been a great number of this name Candace, who had reigned there. Some of the Fathers were of opinion,2 that the Eunuch’s name was Candace; whether the Copies which they used, might so express it, or that this was a mistake occasioned by forgetfulness. getfulness, it is said, that Queen Candace was converted, and believed in Jesus Christ, persuaded hereunto by the preaching of her Eunuch.
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