Acts 8:27,28

A man of Ethiopia, an eunuch, &c.— A certain Ethiopian eunuch, a grandee of Candace, &c. See the note on Genesis 37:36. It appears that Candace was a name common to several of the queens who reigned in Meroe, a part of Ethiopia to the south of Egypt. Perhaps the eunuch had been lately brought over to the Jewish religion; to which it is plain he was a proselyte, and so was not much acquainted with the national expectation of a Messiah, and much less with their prophesies. See Acts 8:31. Probably the chariot in which he was sitting was something in the form of our chaises with four wheels; for though the eunuch did not guide it himself, there was room for another person to come and sit with him: the driver therefore seems to have sat on a seat by himself.