<p>8:39 <i>And when they came up out of the water, the</i> <em>Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip-</em> This would suggest that &quot;the Spirit of the Lord&quot; was not an internal prompting but the Spirit working through an Angel. The 'snatchings away' recorded in the Bible often imply the involvement of an Angel. The Alexandrian MS renders: &quot;The Holy Spirit fell upon the eunuch, but an angel&nbsp;of the Lord snatched away Philip&quot;. This would parallel the Angel's work with that of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit was equally active in work in both their lives. &quot;Caught away&quot; would have recalled how Ezekiel was snatched away from Jerusalem to Gentile Babylon (Ez. 3:14); and the Apocryphal story of the transportation of Habakkuk, who was supposedly like Ezekiel taken up by the hair of his head, and carried from Judea to Babylon. Again the suggestion is that Philip now went to preach to Gentiles.</p><p><i>And the eunuch saw him no more; and he went on his way rejoicing</i>- The temple centred Judaism of the time would have found it hard to get their head around how a person could go off and have a relationship with God with no access to holy space and without the further presence of their rabbi / teacher. It's likewise difficult for those who perceive the body of Christ to be limited by a particular church or attendance within a denomination. The idea that a person can be baptized and live in isolation with their Lord is hard for them to accept. There is fairly strongly documented evidence that there was a Christian movement in Ethiopia from the first century, so we can conclude that the eunuch preached there on his return.</p>