Does This Scripture Prove the Existence of Female Apostles?

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Does This Scripture Prove the Existence of Female Apostles?
9:00AM EDT 4/24/2017 Dr. Eddie Hyatt   

In his letter to the church at Rome, Paul sends personal greetings to 24 people in the final chapter of the letter. These individuals are friends and coworkers who are dear to his heart. Of the 24 mentioned by name, 10 are women. Many of these women obviously functioned in roles of leadership in the churches.

One woman named "Junia" is specifically referred to as an apostle. In Rom. 16:7 Paul says, "Greet Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen and fellow prisoners, who are noteworthy among the apostles, who also came to Christ before me."

"Junia" is a feminine name and was universally recognized as a female apostle for the first several centuries of the church's existence. The famous church father of the fifth century, John Chrysostom, exclaimed, "Oh how great is the devotion of this woman, that she should be even counted worthy of the appellation of apostle" (Hyatt, Paul, Women and Church, 25).

Concerned by the presence of a female apostle, some have attempted to argue that the name should be translated "Junias," which is male. There are insurmountable facts, however, that militate against this argument.

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I think John Gill's position is the best:

who are of note among the apostles;
 were well known by, and in great account with the twelve apostles, though not of their number; they might be converted by them, and be followers of them in Judea; they are thought by some to be of the number of the seventy disciples, whom Christ himself sent forth to preach: Andronicus particularly is mentioned among them, and said to be bishop of Pannonia, or rather of Spain; (See Gill on  10:1); however, they might be preachers of the Gospel, and be persons of great fame and renown as such; for which reason they might be called apostles, that being a name sometimes given to ordinary ministers of the word, and to such who were messengers of the churches, ( 2 Corinthians 8:23 ) , as these might be, and were famous for their prudent, faithful, and diligent discharge of their office and duty:

From Gill's Exposition of the Bible