{"query": "Easton: Deaconess", "count": 3, "results": [{"id": "card_n_aa52cee81e3f", "title": "Easton: Deaconess", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Rom. 16:1, 3, 12; Phil. 4:2, 3; 1 Tim. 3:11; 5:9, 10; Titus 2:3, 4). In these passages it is evident that females were then engaged in various Christian ministrations. Pliny makes mention of them also"}, {"id": "card_c_1f1ddda66973", "title": "Easton: Deaconess cites Titus", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites Titus 2:3 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_29e904269a60", "title": "Easton: Phebe", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A “deaconess of the church at Cenchrea,” the port of Corinth. She was probably the bearer of Paul’s epistle to the Romans. Paul commended her to the Christians at Rome; “for she hath been,” says he, “"}]}