...one Anna, a prophetess, of a great age. S7 And she tuaa a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God...they had performed all things, according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth. 40 And the child grew and waxed...

...was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity: 38 And she eoming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord,...all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem.™ 40 And the ehild grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom ; and the graee of God was upon...

...devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel." And again he says of Anna the prophetess, " And bhe coming in that instant, gave thanks likewise unto...spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in Israel." And Tacitus, when speaking of the destruction of Jerusalem, mentions that many of the Jews...

...in v. 38, of the same chapter, of Anna, that " she, coining in at that instant, gave thanks also to the Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem. See also Luke xix. 11. Mark xv. 43. Matt. ii. 3. 45. John ii. 19, 20, 2i. vi. 14, 15.J That the Samaritans...

...an husband seven years from her virginity : and she was a widow of about fourscore and four years ; which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day. And shecoming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them that...

...their time in acts of devotion, and passed it with enjoyment. " Anna, the prophetess, was of great age, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers, night and day." The first Christians, so far as can be gathered from their history in the Acts of the Apostles, and...

...to others the paths of righteousness. " This mother in Israel," the inspired historian testifies, " departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day." An attention thus uniform and ardent to every ordinance of God has an astonishing influence in recommending...

...of the parable, ch. xviii. 10 14. Again : « So ' the widow Anna, as it is written in the gospel, " departed not from * the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers, night and day ; " ' ch. ii. 37. i 1 Ecclesia, paradis! instar exprimens, arboreg fructiferas trem aut matrem super...

..." Anna the prophetess" was public in the profession of her faith in Jesus as the promised Messiah, and spake of HIM " to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem: Priscilla, the wife of Aquila," was open, unshaken in her attachment to the apostle, accompanying him...

...notice of two. 1.). Having given the history of our Lord's presentation at the temple, he says, ch. ii. 39. " And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city, Nazareth." Nevertheless, I think the holy...