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# Agabus by name
"whose name was Agabus"
# indicated by the Spirit
"the Holy Spirit enabled him to prophesy"
# a great famine would occur
"a great shortage of food would happen"
# over all the world
This was a generalization referring to the part of the world that they were interested in. Alternate translation: "all over the inhabited world" or "throughout the Roman Empire" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-hyperbole]])
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# in the days of Claudius
Luke's audience would know that Claudius was the emperor of Rome at that time. Alternate translation: "when Claudius was the Roman emperor" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names]])
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