(2) Meets Simon Magus. He there came to a city where Simon N1 agus was held in high reverence throug,h the wonders which he wrought. But the substantial and beneficent miracles which were performed by Philip in the name of Jesus, drew away their attention from the imposter, and prepared their minds for the reception of the Gos pel. Simon himself seems to have regarded him as in league with some superhuman being, and looking upon baptism as the initiatory rite of a compact through which he might obtain the same powers, he solicited and obtained baptism from the Evangelist. (See Simos, ro.t (3) Instructs the Eunuch. After Peter and John had come to Samaria to complete and carry on the work which Philip had been the means of commencing, the Evangelist himself was directed by a divine impulse to proceed towards Gaza, where he mct the treasurer of Candace, queen of Ethiopia (see CANDACE; ETHIOPIA), by whose conversion and baptism he became thc instrument of planting the first seeds of the Gospel in Ethiopia (Acts viii:1-39). Philip then retraced his steps, and after pausing at Azotus, preached the Gospel from town to town till he came to C:csarea (verse 4o).
(4) Later Events. At this place he seems to have settled; for when Paul was on his last jour ney to Jernsalem, Ile and his party were enter tained in the house of Philip, on which occasion it is mentioned that lie had 'four daughters, vir gins, who did prophesy' (Acts xxi:o), or, who werc endued with the faculty of speaking under divine inspiration.and of prcdictine future events.
together with other supernatural gifts vouchsafed to the primitive Christians. in accordance with the prophecy in Acts ii :18. With this fact the Scrip tural history of Philip closes, and the traditions which refer to his subsequent proceedings are un certain and conflicting. The Greek martyrologies make him to have been bishop of Tralles, in Lydia; but the Latins make him end his days in Czesarea (Acta Sanct. ad 6 Juni); hut in n11 old accounts Philip the Apostle and Philip the Evangelist are much confounded.
3. Son of Herod the Great, and tetrarch of Batanxa, Trachonitis, and Auranitis (Luke iii: t). (See HERODIAN FAMILY.) He ruled from B. C. 4 to A. D- 34.
4. Another Son of Herod the Great called by Josephus Herod, and first husband of Herodias (Matt. xiv:3; Mark vi;t7; Luke iii:to). (A. D. be fore 25.) (See HERODIAN FAMILY.)