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9. τούτῳ δὲ ἧσαν θυγατέρες τέσσαρες παρθένοι κ.τ.λ., now this man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy. The family of the Evangelist were walking in their father’s steps. These daughters, instead of resting at home, took upon them the hard duty of publishing the message of the Gospel. The English word ‘prophesy’ has come to have, since about the beginning of the seventeenth century, only the one sense of ‘to predict what is yet to come.’ In the time of Queen Elizabeth ‘prophesyings’ meant ‘preachings,’ and Jeremy Taylor’s famous work on the ‘Liberty of Prophesying’ was written to uphold the freedom of preaching. These women were, in their degree, Evangelists also.