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AGABUS.—A Christian prophet of Jerusalem (Act_11:27 ff; Act_21:10 f.), whose prediction of a famine over the (civilized) world occasioned the sending of alms from Antioch to Jerusalem. The famine happened, not simultaneously in all countries, in Claudius’ reign (Suetonius, Tacitus). Agabus also foretold St. Paul’s imprisonment, by binding his feet and hands with the Apostle’s girdle (cf. Jer_13:1 ff.).
A. J. Maclean.