Agabus
Americannoun
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The mouthpiece in King Jesus is one "Agabus the Decapolitan," writing at Alexandria near the end of the 1st Century A.D.
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And as we tarried there a good many days, there came a certain prophet from jewry, named Agabus.
This man had four unmarried daughters who prophesied, and in his house Paul received a 'prophetic' warning of his fate from a certain Agabus who had come down from Jud�a.
From The Making of the New Testament by Bacon, Benjamin Wisner
A famine had afflicted the country,—probably that which Agabus had foretold.
From "Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects) by Ross, Lady Mary
Agabus godmanni Allied to the European A. dispar.
From Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras by Wallace, Alfred Russel
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