Reference: Prisca
Morish
Pris'ca Priscilla. Priscil'la
The wife of Aquila. She and her husband are called by Paul "my fellow-workers in Christ Jesus." Paul met them at Corinth, and they travelled with him to Ephesus, where they were enabled to expound unto Apollos the way of God more perfectly. Priscilla is sometimes mentioned before her husband. 18/2'>Ac 18:2,18,26; Ro 16:3; 1Co 16:19; 2Ti 4:19.
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Smith
Pris'ca
(ancient),
or Priscil'la (a diminutive from Prisca), the wife of Aquila. [AQUILA] To what has been said elsewhere under the head of AQUILA the following may be added: We find that the name of the wife is placed before that of the husband in
See Aquila
and (according to some of the best MSS.) in
Hence we should be disposed to conclude that Priscilla was the more energetic character of the two. In fact we may say that Priscilla is the example of what the married woman may do for the general service of the Church, in conJunction with home duties, as Phoebe is the type of the unmarried servant of the Church, or deaconess.