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Luke 2:37
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 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.
Verse 37. _DEPARTED NOT FROM THE TEMPLE_] Attended constantly at the hours of prayer, which were _nine_ in the morning and _three_ in the afternoon. See Acts 2:15; Acts 3:1. It does not appear that wo...
AND SHE WAS A WIDOW OF ABOUT FOURSCORE AND FOUR YEARS - That is, she was about 84 years of age. It does not mean that she had been a widow for that long time. FASTINGS AND PRAYERS - Constant religiou...
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...
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...
JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM (Luke 2:1-7)...
NOT. Greek. _ou._ App-105. SERVED. Same as Luke 1:74....
_departed not_ She was present (that is) at all the stated hours of prayer; unless we suppose that her position as a Prophetess had secured her the right of living in one of the Temple chambers, and p...
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...
ἝΩΣ. אABL, Copt. Sah[52] &c. [52] Sah. Sahidic Version. 37. ΟΥ̓Κ�. She was present (that is) at all the stated hours of prayer; unless we suppose that her position as a prophetess had secured her th...
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...
ΆΦΊΣΤΑΤΟ _impf. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΆΦΊΣΤΗΜΙ (G868) уходить. _Impf._ указывает на длительное и незавершенное действие в прошлом, ΛΑΤΡΕΎΟΥΣΑ _praes. act. part. (adj.) от_ ΛΑΤΡΕΎΩ (G3000) служить. Дат...
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 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 WAS A WIDOW OF ABOUT FOURSCORE AND FOUR YE...
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...
2:37 temple, (b-15) _ Hieron_ , as ch. 2.27....
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...
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...
If she was married at 12, which is possible in the East, she must have been 103 years old. DEPARTED NOT] i.e. was unfailing in her attendance....
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...
A WIDOW OF ABOUT FOURSCORE AND FOUR YEARS. — The better MSS. read, “_up to the point_ of fourscore and four years,” pointing to the fact that this was the duration of her widowhood. Assuming her to ha...
ἕως : either a widow for eighty-four years (Godet), or, as most think, a widow till the eighty-fourth year of her life. The former rendering would make her very old: married, say, at sixteen, seven ye...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
37._She departed not from the temple _This is a hyperbolical expression; but the meaning is plain, that Anna was almost constantly in the temple. Luke adds, that she _worshipped God with fastings and...
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 SHE WAS A WIDOW OF ABOUT FOURSCORE AND FOUR YEARS,.... Which is not the date of her whole age, as some have thought, but of her widowhood state, as distinct from her marriage state, and the time o...
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. Ver. 37. _A widow of about eighty-four years_] S...
_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...
DEPARTED NOT; she was uniform in her daily attendance upon the services of the temple....
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...
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Cyprian Treatise IV On the Lord's Prayer Thus the widow Anna, without intermission praying and watching, persevered in deserving well of God, as it is written in the I Gospel: "She departed not," it...
Luke 2:37 and G2532 woman G3778 widow G5503 about G5613 eighty-four G3589 G5064 years G2094 who G3739 not...
‘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 2:37. EVEN UNTO FOURSCORE AND FOUR YEARS. The correct reading suggests that she was now eighty-four years old, not a widow for that period. This is evidently mentioned as a commendation (comp. 1...
WHICH DEPARTED NOT (η ουκ αφιστατο). Imperfect indicative middle. She kept on not leaving. The Spirit kept her in the temple as he led Simon to the temple (Plummer). The case of "the temple" (του ι...
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 WIDOW FOR EIGHTY-FOUR YEARS. It was not unusual for a girl to marry at twelve years of age, so Anna must have been at least 103 years old at this time. Unusual, but still very possible. She evidentl...
_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...
_Which departed not from the Temple_ NEGLECTORS OF PUBLIC WORSHIP I know that there are not a few who say that they can edify as well or better at home. Hence these eat their morsel alone. But, so f...
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 she was a widow of about fourscore and four years_ (of age, or, according to S. Ambrose, of her widowhood), _which_ _departed not from the Temple._ Not that she lived in the Temple, but she frequ...
_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 Samuel 2:2; 1 Timothy 5:5; Acts 26:7; Exodus 38:8; Psalms 135:1;...
Of about fourscore and four years [ω ς ε τ ω ν ο γ δ ο η κ ο ν τ α τ ε σ σ α ρ ω ν]. The A. V. might be supposed to be stating her age; but the best texts read ewv, until, instead of wv, about; and th...
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...
Fourscore and four years — These were the years of her life, not her widowhood only. Who departed not from the temple — Who attended there at all the stated hours of prayer. But served God with fastin...