Philip’s Daughters Who Prophesied by H. Clay Trumbull

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 16, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 16.

Philip’s Daughters Who Prophesied

By H. Clay Trumbull

"THE same man had four daughters . . . which did prophesy." Acts 21:9. And Paul does not seem to have been worried over that fact, nor to have made any complaint against Philip on account of his unorthodox tolerance of women who would do such a thing. Possibly Paul had the idea that, if the Lord inspired those women to prophesy, it would be safe for Philip and himself to let them prophesy, and for those to whom they prophesied to hear what the Lord would say through them, or to hear what they had to say to or for the Lord. That, certainly, would seem to have been a reasonable view of the case.