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.
From Time Magazine Archive
And Agabus tells of a great famine coming.
From Quiet Talks on the Crowned Christ of Revelation by Gordon, S. D. (Samuel Dickey)
A famine had afflicted the country,—probably that which Agabus had foretold.
From "Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects) by Ross, Lady Mary
And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit, that there should be great dearth throughout all the world; which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.
From The Book of Common Prayer and The Scottish Liturgy by Episcopal Church in Scotland
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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