CHLOE is mentioned in t Cor. i. 11, in a manner which has left it doubtful to some, e. g.., St. Ambrose, Thomas Aq., Stunica and Calvin (see Erasmus, in Crit. Sacr., in loc. ; also Calvin, in loc.),whether a place or a person be meant. 'Trb T XX611S is St. Paul's expression. Notwith standing the efforts of Stunica, no place at all suitable has been found to satisfy the Apostle's reference ; besides which, the phrase should have been, not T XX677s, but rav to XX6y, to express the local sense. The ellipsis here is probably oba(cov, meaning Chloe's family (See Wolf's Curer Philologica in t Cor. r. t ; and Bos, Ellips. 137. A similar construction occurs in Rom. xvi. 10, tr ; where the of 'ApiaropatIXou and of Naptricro-ou are translated in A. V. by the ellipsis of household. Olshausen (in loc.) suggests Chloe's slaves alone; but nearer relations still may have been St. Paul's Informants ; and it has been even suggested that Stephanas, Fortunatus and Achaicus, whose arrival at Ephesus from Corinth gladdened the apostle (1 Cor. xvi. 17), were sons of Chloe (See Hammond
and Wordsworth, in loc.) The Pcschito-Syriac version is equivalent to De donzesticis Chloe". Chloe .
herself was probably a religious matron (Poll Symp., in loc.), either an inhabitant of Corinth (Theophylact), or some Christian woman (Estius) known to the Corinthians elsewhere, or (Michaelis, Meyer) an Ephesian having friends, who had been at Corinth.' (Alford, in loc.) Chloe is an oc casional name in Greek, and especially in Latin writers. It was a surname of tivojrnp, and gave name to a festival in her honour. Among other Chloes, Horace mentions one in a well-known ode (iii, 9. to whom he assigns Thrace, or perhaps Crete, as her birthplace ' Me none Thressa [Al. Cressa] Chloe regit Dukes docta modos et citharm sciens.' —P. H.