Davidius
Puritan Board Post-Graduate
For one of my classes I recently read one of Pliny the Younger's letters to the emperor Trajan about the Christians in his province. At one point he said that he had to have two women interrogated through torture to get some information, and he says that the two women were called deaconesses.
What are the ministrae he's talking about?
Quo magis necessarium credidi ex duabus ancillis, quae ministrae dicebantur, quid esset veri, et per tormenta quaerere.
I believed it all the more necessary to investigate by means of torture what the truth was from two servant women who were called "deaconesses [ministrae]."
What are the ministrae he's talking about?
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