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== Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_50292" /> == | == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_50292" /> == | ||
<p> <strong> | <p> <strong> CHLOE </strong> (mentioned only in 1 Corinthians 1:11 ). St. Paul had been informed of the dissensions at Corinth prob. by some of her Christian slaves. [[Chloe]] herself may have been either a Christian or a beathen, and may have lived either at Corinth or at Ephesus. In favour of the latter is St. Paul’s usual tact, which would not suggest the invidious mention of his informants’ names, if they were members of the Corinthian Church. </p> | ||
== Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_72156" /> == | == Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_72156" /> == | ||
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== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_32242" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_32242" /> == | ||
<p> (Χλόη, ''Verdure,'' a classical name), a female Christian mentioned in 1 Corinthians 1:11, some of whose household ( | <p> ( '''''Χλόη''''' , ''Verdure,'' a classical name), a female Christian mentioned in 1 Corinthians 1:11, some of whose household ( '''''Ὑπὸ''''' '''''Τῶν''''' '''''Χλόης''''' , where there is doubtless an ellipsis of '''''Οἰκείων''''' , comp. Romans 16:10-11) had informed the apostle Paul of the fact that there were divisions in the Corinthian Church. A.D. 54. She is supposed by [[Theophylact]] and others to have been an inhabitant of Corinth; by Estius, some Christian woman known to the Corinthians elsewhere; by Michaelis and Meyer, an Ephesian, having friends at Corinth. (See [[Epistles]] To Corinthians). </p> | ||
== International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_2450" /> == | == International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_2450" /> == | ||
<p> '''''klō´ē̇''''' ( Χλόη , <i> '''''Chlóē''''' </i> , "a tender shoot"): A woman, presumably a Christian, mentioned only in 1 Corinthians 1:11 . She was a resident either of Corinth or of Ephesus. Paul had been informed by some of her household, probably Christian slaves, of the dissensions in the church at Corinth. Nothing more is known of her. </p> | <p> ''''' klō´ē̇ ''''' ( Χλόη , <i> ''''' Chlóē ''''' </i> , "a tender shoot"): A woman, presumably a Christian, mentioned only in 1 Corinthians 1:11 . She was a resident either of Corinth or of Ephesus. Paul had been informed by some of her household, probably Christian slaves, of the dissensions in the church at Corinth. Nothing more is known of her. </p> | ||
== Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_15281" /> == | == Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_15281" /> == | ||
