Euodias

EUODIAS, spoken of by St. Paul in Philipp. iv. 2.his epistle to the Philippians. Some Greek manuscripts read Euodum or Euodium, as if the Apostle were speaking of a man: but the printed copies, and the generality of manuscripts read it in the fœminine, Euodiam. And there is a good deal of probability, that Euodias and Syntyche were two women of great virtue, who had assisted St. Paul in the propagation of the Gospel. These two persons were at variance upon some occasion which is not known to us: St. Paul conjures them to be of the same mind. Others are of opinion¹, that Euodias was a woman, the other Syntichus, a man; and that St. Paul intreats them to be reconciled. But Syntiche being placed in the Calendar upon the 22 of July, among the female Saints, we must believe it to have been the most common opinion, that Euodias and Syntiche were both women.

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