...husband seven years from her virginity: 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 coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them that...

...with a husband seven years from her virginity : 37 and she was now a widow of about eighty-four years, who departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayer night and day :) 38 she also came "upon them at the same time, and gave thanks to the Lord,...

...devotional was Hannah, the mother of Samuel; Elizabeth, the mother of John; Mary, the mother of Jesus ; and Anna, the prophetess, who departed not from the temple,...served God with fastings and prayers, night and day. Whatever may be the reasons, why women are more generally and more eminently pious and devout than...

...with a husband but seven years after marriage". Arid she 37 was a widow of about eighty-four years, who departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day. And 38 she coming in at that instant, gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spoke of him to all them...

...Simeon and Anna3, though the former had the reputation of being "just and devout," and the latter " departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day;" — all their prophetic declarations, all their effusions of inspiration and gratitude, all their previous...

...prophetess, of whom it is said, that, through the course of many years, to an extreme old age, " She departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day." The early piety of Jephthah's daughter, seems to have predisposed and fitted her for such a kind of...

...husband seven years from her virginity ; 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. 38 And she coming in that instant, gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them...

...light to lighten 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...

...is so 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...

...and in truth. There was a devout Simeon, who waited for the consolation of Israel — a devout Anna, who departed not from the temple, but served God, with fastings and prayers, night and day — a Nathaniel, whom the omniscient eye of the Saviour observed pouring out his heart to God in prayer,...