IT was soon found necessary in the Apostolic Church that there should be a division of labor; and that the Twelve might give themselves without distraction to prayer and the ministry of the word, seven of the brethren were set apart for the management of the business matters of the Church. Philip was one of these. . . . He was instrumental in the conversion of the chamberlain of Candace, queen of Ethiopia. . . . On parting from the chamberlain he went to Azotus (Ashdod), and travelled along the sea-board, preaching from city to city, till he reached Caesarea. There he settled, and there he was still residing with his four unmarried daughters, who were prophetesses, when Paul visited Caesarea on his last journey to Jerusalem.
—From Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible.
