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Mat 11:9. Προφήτην, a prophet) For a long time they had had no prophets.[517]-ΝΑῚ, yea) A prophet, I say unto you, and something greater than a prophet.-περισσότερονmore) Neuter, as in τὶ, what: sc. when ye went out ye saw something more, etc., although ye did not know it.-προφήτου, than a prophet) For a prophet announces only distant events.
[517] He cannot be accounted as such, unless he were one far removed from (reed-like) fickleness and (courtier-like) effeminacy.-V. g.