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Luke 2:36
And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser; she was of great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;
And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser; she was of great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;
Verse 36. _ANNA, A PROPHETESS_] It does not appear that this person was a _prophetess_ in the strict sense of the word, i.e. one who could foretell future events; but rather a holy woman; who, from h...
OF THE TRIBE OF ASER - The tribe of Aser, or Asher, dwelt in the northern part of the land of Canaan. Why Anna was called a prophetess is not known. It might be because she had been the wife of a prop...
CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The Birth of Christ at Bethlehem (Luke 2:1)_ 2. The Glad Tidings Announced to the Shepherds. (Luke 2:8) 3. The Circumcision and Presentation (Luke 2:21) 4. Simeon and His Prophecy ...
ANNA. Simeon has a counterpart in a centenarian widow who spends her whole life in ascetic devotion in the Temple. She adds her prophetic testimony to his, and afterwards speaks of the child to the ci...
JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM (Luke 2:1-7)...
There was a prophetess called Anna. She was the daughter of Phanuel and she belonged to the tribe of Asher. She was far advanced in years. She had lived with her husband ever since seven years after s...
ANNA. Hebrew. _Hannah_, as in 1 Samuel 1:20. He was gracious. PROPHETESS. Only here and Revelation 2:20. ASER. Asher; thus Anna of Israel united with Simeon of Judah....
Anna the Prophetess. The Return to Nazareth 36. _Anna_ The same name as Hannah (1 Samuel 1:20), from the root _Chânan_, -he was gracious." _a prophetess_ like Miriam, Deborah, Huldah (2 Chronicles 3...
ἌΝΝΑ. The same name as Hannah (1 Samuel 1:20), from the root _Chânan_, ‘he was gracious.’ ΠΡΟΦΗ͂ΤΙΣ. The predicate in apposition usually has the article, as in Ἰωάννην τὸν βαπτιστήν, Ἄγριππα ὁ βασιλεύ...
ANNA THE PROPHETESS. THE RETURN TO NAZARETH...
VER 36. AND THERE WAS ONE ANNA, A PROPHETESS, THE DAUGHTER OF PHANUEL, OF THE TRIBE OF ASER: SHE WAS OF A GREAT AGE, AND HAD LIVED WITH A HUSBAND SEVEN YEARS FROM HER VIRGINITY; 37. AND SHE WAS A WIDO...
ΠΡΟΒΕΒΗΚΥΪ́ a perf. _act. part. от_ ΠΡΟΒΑΊΝΩ (G4260) продвигаться, ΖΉΣΑΣΑ _aor. act. part. (adj.) от_ ΖΆΩ (G2198) жить, ΠΑΡΘΕΝΊΑ (G3932) девственность....
AND THERE WAS ONE ANNA— While these things were transacting, there came into the temple an aged woman named _Anna,_ whose mortification to the world partly appeared by her having lived a widow ever si...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Presenting the Child to the Lord Scripture_ Luke 2:22-40 And when the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought him up to Jerusalem,...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Prophecies (Luke 2:22-38) 22 And when the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord 23(a...
And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity; AND THERE WAS ONE ANNA -...
25 Simeon signifies to _ hear_, and is representative of those in Judah whose ears were open to the law of the Lord and who looked for the fulfillment of the prophetic promises. As the years spoken of...
2:36 years, (a-20) Lit. 'many days.'...
PROPHETESS] The title shows that Anna was known as a prophetess before this incident. Other instances of prophetesses are Miriam, Deborah, Hannah, Huldah, and the daughters of Philip. ASER] RV 'Asher....
THE PURIFICATION AND PRESENTATION IN THE TEMPLE. Women after childbirth were unclean, for a boy forty days, for a girl eighty days. They were then bound to present an offering for Purification, viz. a...
BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD OF JESUS 1-5. The census of Quirinius. There are two historical difficulties in connexion with St. Luke's mention of the census of Quirinius: (1) There is no direct evidence, exce...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 2 THE BIRTH OF JESUS 2:1-7 V1 At that time *Caesar Augustus ordered a *census in the *Roman *empire. V2 This was the first *census when Quirinius gov...
ONE ANNA, A PROPHETESS. — The fact is in many ways remarkable. We find a woman recognised as a prophetess at a time when no man is recognised as a prophet. She bears the name of the mother of the foun...
ἦν : either there was _there_, aderat (Meyer, Godet, Weizsäcker), or there _was_, there _lived_ (De Wette, J. Weiss, Schanz, Hahn). Ἅννα = חַנָּה, 1 Samuel 1:20 (Ἄννα in Sept [31]) = grace. Of this wo...
_Anna._ Another aged saint of the O. T. type comes on the stage speaking thankful prophetic words concerning the Holy Child....
THE AGED SIMEON'S PROPHETIC BLESSING Luke 2:25-39 Two aged watchers welcomed the King; but no one else, of all the crowds who went and came, guessed that the Messenger of the Covenant had suddenly c...
Jesus was born in Bethlehem, under the yoke of an oppressor. Moreover, by the exigency of the circumstances, He was born amid the homeless crowd. This was according to the divine arrangement and foret...
(6) And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity; (6) Another witness besi...
_Anna, a prophetess. She was another witness that Jesus was the Messias, venerable for age, and more for her piety. --- And had lived with her husband seven years from her virginity; i.e. had been sev...
CIRCUMCISION OF JESUS & HIS PRESENTATION IN THE TEMPLE 21-24. _“And when the eight days for circumcising Him were fulfilled, and He was called Jesus, being called by the angel before he was conceived...
SIXTH NARRATIVE: CIRCUMCISION AND PRESENTATION OF JESUS, LUKE 2:21-40. This narrative comprises 1. The circumcision of Jesus (Luke 2:21); 2. His presentation in the temple (Luke 2:22-38); 3. A histori...
Anna presents, in several respects, a contrast to Simeon. The latter came into the temple impelled by the Spirit; Anna lives there. Simeon has no desire but to die; Anna seems to recover the vigour of...
(36) And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity; (37) And she was a widow...
The preface of Luke's gospel is as instructive as the introduction of either of the two preceding gospels. It is obvious to any serious reader that we enter a totally different province, though all be...
36._And there was Anna, a prophetess _Luke mentions not more than two persons who received Christ; and this is intended to teach us, that whatever belongs to God, however small it may _be, _ought to b...
In the next chapter (2) the scene changes. Instead of the relations of God with Israel according to grace, we see first the pagan emperor of the world the head of Daniel's last empire exercising his p...
AND THERE WAS ONE ANNA,.... The name is the same with Hannah: so Hannah, the mother of Samuel, is by the Septuagint called Anna, in 1 Samuel 1:2 and it signifies "grace"; or "gracious": and as was her...
And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity; Ver. 36. _From her virginity...
_And there was one Anna, a prophetess_ A person of some note; _she was a widow of about fourscore and four years_ These were the years of her life, and not of her widowhood only; _who departed not fro...
ASER; Asher. After the captivity, some of the remnant of the ten tribes were found united with the Jews....
THE BIRTH OF THE LORD JESUS (vs.1-7) God in His sovereign wisdom and power at this time ordered the events of man's government to accomplish His own will. Caesar Augustus decreed that all the world ...
36-40 There was much evil then in the church, yet God left not himself without witness. Anna always dwelt in, or at least attended at, the temple. She was always in a praying spirit; gave herself to...
Ver. 36-38. God took care that our Saviour's nativity should be fully attested. To the testimony of the angels, the wise men, the shepherds, Simeon, here is added another. It is that of Anna, who is d...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I was a type of the Demiurge, who, on the arrival of the Saviour, learned his own change of place, and gave thanks to Bythus. They also assert that by Anna, who is spok...
Luke 2:36 Now G2532 was G2258 (G5713) Anna G451 prophetess G4398 daughter G2364 Phanuel G5323 of G1537 tribe...
‘And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity, and she had been a widow even...
ANNA THE PROPHETESS COMES TO WHERE JESUS IS IN THE TEMPLE AND GIVES THANKS TO GOD AND SPREADS THE NEWS AMONG THE GODLY IN ISRAEL (2:36-40). In the larger chiasmus (see on introduction to Luke 1:1) thi...
The fulfilment of the legal requirements respecting the child Jesus: His circumcision and naming on the eighth day (Luke 2:21), as one of the Jewish people, and the redemption from the temple service...
Luke 2:36. ONE ANNA. ‘One' is supplied to relieve the English construction. A PROPHETESS, so called previous to this time. PHANUEL. The name of her husband is not mentioned, probably because he ha...
ONE ANNA A PROPHETESS (Hαννα προφητις). The word προφητις occurs in the N.T. only here and Revelation 2:20. In old Greek writers it means a woman who interprets oracles. The long parenthesis into ve...
Luke 2:21. _And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb._ Although the old...
Luke 2:1. And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria....
CONTENTS: Birth of Jesus. His adoration by the shepherds. Adoration and prophecy of Simon and Anna. Return to Nazareth. Jesus and His parents at the Passover. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Caesar, Augustus, Cyr...
Luke 2:1. _It came to pass in those days,_ when John was born, and when the Roman emperor, Augustus Cæsar, filled the throne, and was in the thirty first year of his reign, that, a decree was issued f...
A PROPHETESS NAMED ANNA. One who spoke by inspiration. DAUGHTER OF PHANUEL. Who must have been well known at that time. OF THE TRIBE OF ASHER. One of the Twelve Tribes, occupying land on the sea coast...
_And there was one Anna, a prophetess_ FIRST FEMALE TESTIMONY TO CHRIST 1. Excited by long expectations. 2. Based on personal sight. 3. Given with full candour. 4. Sealed by holy walk. 5. Crown...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 2:1 Luke records the events of Jesus’ birth (vv. Luke 2:1), his presentation in the temple (vv. Luke 2:21), and his visit
CHAPTER 2 VER. 1. _And it came to pass in those days_ (in which John the Baptist was born) _there went forth a decree_, &c. The Syriac for "all the world," has "all the people of his dominion," subjec...
Observe here how God joins and couples in Christ the humble with the sublime, the human with the divine, the poison with the antidote, to show that in Him human nature was joined to the Divine Majesty...
_And there was one Anna, a prophetess_, _the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser_ : _she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity_. She was an old woman,...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 2:21. THE CHILD.—The best MSS. read “Him.” Luke 2:22. HER PURIFICATION.—The true reading is, “_their_ purification” (R.V.). The mother was ceremonially unclean by child-birth, t...
EXPOSITION LUKE 2:1 _The Redeemer's birth_. LUKE 2:1 THERE WENT OUT A DECREE FROM CAESAR AUGUSTUS, THAT ALL THE WORLD SHOULD BE TAXED; more accurately, _that there should be a registration_, etc.;...
Now it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (And the taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syra.) And all we...
1 Corinthians 12:1; 2 Kings 22:14; Acts 2:18; Acts 21:9; Exodus 15:20
A prophetess [π ρ ο φ η τ ι ς]. Only here and Revelation 2:20. Asher. That tribe was celebrated in tradition for the beauty of its women, and their fitness to be wedded to high priests or kings. Of g...
THE SEVEN MAGNIFICATS _Selections from Luke 1:1 and Luke 2:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS By way of introduction to the seven Magnificats, we will study the annunciation of the birth of Christ, as it was giv...
Simeon is seconded by Anna,. prophetess; she also declares that the child Jesus was the promised and expected Messiah: and thus Christ was proclaimed in the temple by two heralds of different sexes....