προφήτην. “All accounted John as a prophet,” Matthew 21:26.

περισσότερον προφήτου. Namely, an actual personal herald and forerunner; the Angel or Messenger of Malachi, Luke 3:1, and so the only Prophet who had himself been announced by Prophecy. περισσότερον = πλέον.

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Old Testament