Talk:Candace

Identifying minor characters
It seems to me, as an administrator, that when a character is only mentioned once in the Bible, using resources to build an article about them must be weighed against their significance to the message of the Bible. In this case, the 'kandake' of Ethiopia is just a reference point for the unamed eunoch who took the gospel with him to the Jewish population of that ancient nation.

It may be that the kandake became a believer as well, leading to the founding of the Coptic Church, but the real evangelist in the story is Phillip. His example is reflected in Paul's admonition to Timothy concerning the spread of the truth:


 * And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.

2 Timothy 2:2

The place for both the eunuch and his mistress would be in the article about Phillip. Perhaps, in time, minor characters can have articles of their own. However, strictly speaking, the Biblical Point of View restrains us in some ways from spending too much time identifying these charaters. It is enough that we can verify from history that a kandake was ruling in Ethiopia in the first century AD.

SouthWriter (talk) 18:29, November 30, 2015 (UTC)