 | Robert Morehead - 1825 - 480 pages
...familiar to us ! Anna, too, — she who had been " a widow of about four score and four years, who departed not from the Temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day," — she, too, was not neglected in this hour of consolation, but had all her prayers answered in one... | |
 | James Thomas Law - 1825 - 386 pages
...the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel n." There was also " one Anna, a. prophetess, who departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day. She likewise, coming in that instant, gave thanks unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them that... | |
 | Robert Culbertson - 1826 - 584 pages
...some idea of what is meant by the figure from what is recorded concerning Anna the prophetess; ' She departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day,' Luke ii. 87. No person imagines that this pious woman observed a continual fast, or that she was incessantly... | |
 | George Townsend - 1827 - 722 pages
...the Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in * Jerusalem. * *• '""'• 37 And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years,...served God with fastings and prayers night and day. 39 And when they had peformed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee,... | |
 | John Platts - 1827 - 688 pages
...shall come down, I will know the uttermost of your matter. See on ACTS, xxiii. 6. f LUKE, ii. 37 : And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years,...served God with fastings and prayers night and day. 1 THES. iii- !"•' Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect... | |
 | Joseph Twigger - 1827 - 302 pages
...maternal pangs she would feel for the sufferings of her child. " Anna came in at the same instant, and gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of him...all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem." Although the Jews affirm that their Messias is yet to come, nevertheless does the advent of Christ... | |
 | John Platts - 1827 - 676 pages
...departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers 'night and day. 38 And she coining in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them that k looked for redemption in Jerusalem.13 "Israel. .4. V. founded. Unto you therefore which believe he... | |
 | Henry Belfrage - 1827 - 710 pages
...this exercise. How beautiful is the piety of Anna, who, though a widow of fourscore and four years, departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.* Old age had not rendered her devotion languid, nor did she deem her * Luke ii. 87. infirmities .an... | |
 | Hervey Wilbur - 1828 - 588 pages
...she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity; 37 And she ivas a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed...served God with fastings and prayers night and day. с 38 And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of 27 And he came... | |
 | Edward Swaine - 1828 - 190 pages
...light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel" The widowed prophetess, Anna, *' coming in that instant, gave thanks likewise unto...all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem" Upon what ground could the prophetess have given thanks at the birth of Christ, and have spoken of... | |
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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. 
