Women as Ambassadors
Mark 16:7
But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goes before you into Galilee: there shall you see him, as he said to you.


The faculties and abilities of the soul appear both in affairs of state and in ecclesiastical affairs; in matters of government and in matters of religion; and in neither of these are we without examples of able women. For, for state affairs, and matters of government, our age hath given us such a queen, as scarce any former king hath equalled. And in the Venetian story, I remember, that certain matrons of that city were sent by commission, in quality of ambassadors, to an empress with whom that state had occasion to treat. And in the stories of the eastern parts of the world, it is said to be in ordinary practice to send women for ambassadors. And then in matters of religion, women have always had a great hand, though sometimes on the left as well as on the right hand.

(John Donne, D. D.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you.

WEB: But go, tell his disciples and Peter, 'He goes before you into Galilee. There you will see him, as he said to you.'"




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