 | Frederick Smith - 1811 - 274 pages
...a prophetess. She was of great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity : and she was a widow of about fourscore and four years,...fastings and prayers night and day. And she coming in at that instant, gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of him to all that looked for redemption... | |
 | Sarah Trimmer - 1811 - 396 pages
...tribe of Aser ; she was of great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity. 37 And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years,...temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night rmd day. , 38 And she coming in that instant, gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spoke of him... | |
 | John Jones - 1812 - 1054 pages
...serving God with fastings and prayers night and day ; and she coming in at that instant, gave thanks unto the Lord and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem," chap. ii. 36. This fiction is taken from the gospel of Man1, there Anna is represented as the mother... | |
 | 1847 - 760 pages
...Sabbath, improved her death from those words, in Luke ii. 37 : " And she was a widow of about fourscore years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day." If there is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, how much greater joy when one ransomed redeemed... | |
 | Charles Crawford (calling himself earl of Crawford.) - 1814 - 224 pages
...devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel." And again he says of Anna the prophetess, " And bhe coming in that instant, gave thanks likewise unto...spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in Israel." And Tacitus, when speaking of the destruction of Jerusalem, mentions that many of the Jews... | |
 | 1814 - 570 pages
...was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity: 38 And she eoming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord,...all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem.™ 40 And the ehild grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom ; and the graee of God was upon... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1814 - 522 pages
...in v. 38, of the same chapter, of Anna, that " she, coining in at that instant, gave thanks also to the Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem. See also Luke xix. 11. Mark xv. 43. Matt. ii. 3. 45. John ii. 19, 20, 2i. vi. 14, 15.J That the Samaritans... | |
 | Church of England - 1815 - 450 pages
...tribe of Aser; she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity : and she was a widow of about fourscore and four years...served God with fastings and prayers night and day. And shecoming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked... | |
 | William Paley - 1815 - 552 pages
...their time in acts of devotion, and passed it with enjoyment. " Anna, the prophetess, was of great age, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers, night and day." The first Christians, so far as can be gathered from their history in the Acts of the Apostles, and... | |
 | Alexander Proudfit - 1815 - 416 pages
...to others the paths of righteousness. " This mother in Israel," the inspired historian testifies, " departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day." An attention thus uniform and ardent to every ordinance of God has an astonishing influence in recommending... | |
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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. 
