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Church Father St. Irenaeus of Lyons in his book Adversus haereses (Against the Heresies, an early anti-Gnostic theological work) 3:12:8 (180 AD), wrote regarding the Ethiopian eunuch, "This man (Simeon Bachos the Eunuch) was also sent into the regions of Ethiopia, to preach what he had himself believed, that there was one God preached by the prophets, but that the Son of this (God) had already ...
The confession of the Ethiopian eunuch is a variant reading in Acts 8:37, widely seen by Textual Critics to be a later interpolation into the text. It is found in the King James Version due to its existence within the Textus Receptus .
One of the earliest converts to Christianity was an Ethiopian eunuch who was a high court official of Candace, the Queen of Ethiopia, but was already a eunuch at the time of conversion (Acts 8:27–39). In the deuterocanonical Wisdom of Solomon, the eunuch who has done no lawless deed is praised and special favor is claimed to be shown to him ...
A person could be born a eunuch. Although rare, it is possible that some individuals were born eunuchs. Eunuchs were an active component in the slave market of the Islamic world until the early 20th-century for service in harem as well as in the corps of mostly African eunuchs who guarded the Prophet Muhammad’s tomb in Medina and the Kaʿba ...
Agha was born in Ethiopia and was brought to Ottoman Empire as a slave. [2] He held various positions before his 1713 exile to Cyprus for unknown reasons. Despite this, he soon protected the Prophet's Mosque in Medina as one of the numerous eunuchs. [3] Around age 60, he returned to Istanbul and was appointed Chief Harem Eunuch under Sultan ...
Crime+Investigation UK's "The Eunuch Maker" is about a man who performed castrations on volunteers. Marius Gustavson ran a pay-per-view website where he livestreamed the procedures. He made almost ...
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Frumentius established the first monastery of Ethiopia, called Dabba Selama in Dogu'a Tembien. The people called Frumentius Kesate Birhan (Revealer of Light) and Abba Salama (Father of Peace). He became the first Abune , a title given to the head of the Ethiopian Church .