Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 11:28

28 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 Cesar.

By a resolution from the Spirit, as one of his Gifts, and not by Judicial Astrology, or any other means real or pretended. For it is a Prerogative of God only, to foretel things to come, as Isa. 41.22, 23.

This Famine Suetonius and other Heathen writers make mention of, tho some place it one year, and some in another year of Claudius his reign, it may be there were divers famines, or one might continue divers years; but thus God, who provided for the Patriarchs by means of Iosephs foreseeing of the scarcity in Egypt, and elsewhere; provides for his Church now also by a [illegible: 1 letter]ike prediction. Gods Omniscience is exerted for his Churches preservation.

Marginal references: Chap. 21.1[illegible: 1 letter].