...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 she coming 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 Christiana so far as can be gathered from their history in the Acts of the Apostles and the...

...of the Lord," ver. 30. And " Anna coming at the same instant into the temple, she gave thanks also unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in Israel," ver. 38. And of Joseph of Arimathea, it is said, Mark xv. 43, That " he also expected the...

...of the Lord," ver. 30. And " Anna coming at the same instant into the temple, she gave thanks also unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in Israel," ver. 38. And of Joseph of Arimathea, it is said, Mark xv. 43, That " he also expected the...

...husband seven years from her virginity ; 37 And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God...Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for redemp tion in Jerusalem. 39 And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord,...

...1hur yearsi which departed not from the temple, hut served God with fastings and pmyers night and day. And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise...Lord., and spake of him to all them that looked for redemptlon in Jerusalem. And when they had performed all things according to the Law of the Lord, they...

...prophetess, of whom it is said, that, through the course of many years, to an extreme old age, " She departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day." The early piety of Jephthah's daughter, seems to have predisposed and fitted her for such a kind of...

...Simeon and Anna3, though the former had the reputation of being "just and devout," and the latter " departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day;" — all their prophetic declarations, all their effusions of inspiration and gratitude, all their previous...

...of Samuel; Elizabeth, the mother of John; Mary, the mother of Jesus ; and Anna, the prophetess, who departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers, night and day. Whatever may be the reasons, why women are more generally and more eminently pious and devout than...

...a husband but seven years after marriage". Arid she 37 was a widow of about eighty-four years, who departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day. And 38 she coming in at that instant, gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spoke of him to all them...