Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
Ver. 34. Dionysius the Areopagite] Not the astrologer, as some have made him, nor the author of the Heavenly Hierachy made by some superstitious monk; but a senator or judge in that court of Mars' Hill in Athens, crowned with martyrdom for the Christian religion, in the year of grace 96, as Trithemius writeth.
And a woman named Damaris] Damaris as well as Dennis. Souls have no sexes. In Christ "there is neither male nor female, bond nor free," Galatians 3:28. It is easy to observe, saith a grave divine, that the New Testament affords more store of good women than the Old. In the preceding chapter, when Paul came first to Philippi, he had none that would hear him, but a company of good women, Acts 16:13 .