Difference between revisions of "Agabus (sources)"
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Acts 21:10 -- '' While we were staying for many days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.'' | Acts 21:10 -- '' While we were staying for many days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.'' | ||
====Eusebius, Historia ecclesiatica==== | |||
II 3,4 -- ''And Agabus, one of the prophets who was with them, uttered a prophecy concerning the famine which was about to take place, and Paul and Barnabas were sent to relieve the necessities of the brethren.'' | |||
II 8,1 -- ''...Under ([[Claudius]]) the world was visited with a famine, which writers that are entire strangers to our religion have recorded in their histories. And thus the prediction of Agabus recorded in the Acts of the Apostles, <Acts 11:28> according to which the whole world was to be visited by a famine, received its fulfillment. [8,2] Luke, in the Acts, mentions the famine in the time of Claudius, and states that the brethren of Antioch, each according to his ability, sent to the brethren of Judea by the hands of [[Paul]] and [[Barnabas]]...'' | |||
Revision as of 14:42, 6 September 2012
Survey of ancient sources on Agabus.
Overview
Primary sources
Acts of Apostles
Acts 11:28 -- And one of them named Agabus stood up and foretold by the Spirit that there would be a great famine over all the world (this took place in the days of Claudius).
Acts 21:10 -- While we were staying for many days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.
Eusebius, Historia ecclesiatica
II 3,4 -- And Agabus, one of the prophets who was with them, uttered a prophecy concerning the famine which was about to take place, and Paul and Barnabas were sent to relieve the necessities of the brethren.
II 8,1 -- ...Under (Claudius) the world was visited with a famine, which writers that are entire strangers to our religion have recorded in their histories. And thus the prediction of Agabus recorded in the Acts of the Apostles, <Acts 11:28> according to which the whole world was to be visited by a famine, received its fulfillment. [8,2] Luke, in the Acts, mentions the famine in the time of Claudius, and states that the brethren of Antioch, each according to his ability, sent to the brethren of Judea by the hands of Paul and Barnabas...