15:20) called a prophetess. So is it also to be taken (1 Cor. 11:4⁠–⁠5), where St. Paul saith, “Every man that prayeth or prophesieth with his head covered, etc. , and every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered”; for prophesy in that place signifieth no more but praising God in psalms and holy songs; which women might do in the church, though it were not lawful for them to speak to the congregation. And in this signification it is that the poets of the heathen, that composed hymns and other sorts of poems in the honour of their gods, were called vates , prophets; as is well enough known by all that are versed in the books of the Gentiles, and as is evident ( Tit. 1:12), where St. Paul saith of the Cretians, that a prophet of their own said they were liars; not that