Euo´dias, a female member of the church at Philippi, who seems to have been at variance with another female member named Syntyche. Paul describes them as women who had ’labored much with him in the Gospel,’ and implores them to be of one mind (Php 4:2-3).
See SYNTYCHE.\par
Euo’dias. (fragrant). A Christian woman at Philippi. Php 4:2. (A.D. 57). The name is correctly Euodia, as given in the Revised Version.
EUODIAS, rather, Euodia. A Christian woman, perhaps a deaconess or one of influence at Philippi (Act 17:12). See Php 4:2-3, "I beseech Euodia, and beseech Syntyche (he beseeches each separately), that they be of the same mind in the Lord. And (’yea’ in the Sinaiticus, Vaticanus, and Alexandrinus manuscripts) I entreat thee also, true yokefellow, help them (i.e. cooperate with, or as Alford, help toward the reconciliation of, Euodia and Syntyche) inasmuch as they labored with me in the gospel."
At Philippi women were the first hearers of the gospel, and Lydia the first convert. The coincidence marks genuineness, that in the Epistle to the Philippians alone instructions are given to women who labored with Paul in the gospel, not without danger (Act 16:13; Act 16:19-20; Php 1:28). Euodia and Syntyche were two of "the women who resorted to the river side, where prayer was wont to be made." Being early converted, they would naturally take a leading part in teaching the gospel to other women, in a private sphere of labor (1Ti 2:11-12).
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[Euo’dias]
A Christian woman at Philippi who is exhorted with Syntyche to be "of the same mind in the Lord." Php 4:2.
(Euodia) & Syntache (Philippians 4)
- Both women probably held office, perhaps as deaconesses, in this the first church established by Paul in Europe. The first member was also a woman - Lydia.