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 had been so long dead. Nothing further is known of father or daughter, though tradition has been busy in supplementing the narrative.

She was of a great age. From this point to ‘fourscore and four years' (Luke 2:37), the description is parenthetical, referring to the particulars of her great age.

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Old Testament