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 years a wife, eighty-four years a widow = 107; not impossible, and borne out by the πολλαῖς after ἡμέραις (Luke 2:36, advanced in days many). νηστείαις : the fasting might be due to poverty, or on system, which would suggest a Judaistic type of piety. νύκτα κ. ἡ.: did she sleep within the temple precincts?

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