John Chrysostom

High encomiums for the man, that he, residing in Ethiopia and beset with so much business, and when there was no festival going on, and living in that superstitious city, came to Jerusalem for to worship.

An eunuch, it says, a man of great authority, under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians. For there women bore rule of old, and this was the law among them. Philip did not yet know for whose sake he had come into the desert.