 | Episcopal Church - 1808 - 634 pages
...husband seven years from her virginity ; and she was a widow of alxnit 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 apake of him to all them that... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...husband seven years from her virginity ; And she was a widow of about fourscore ami four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day. After the time of her virginity, she had lived seven years in wedlock with her husband ; and had, from... | |
 | William Paley - Sermons, English - 1808 - 564 pages
...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 the... | |
 | William Newcome - Bible - 1809 - 512 pages
...seven years fron> her virginity: 37 And she zvas 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... | |
 | James Macknight - Bible - 1809 - 544 pages
...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. The meaning is not, that Anna abode continually in the temple. For none lived there save the priests... | |
 | John Watkins - 1809 - 454 pages
...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... | |
 | William Jones - Anglican Communion - 1810 - 502 pages
...the Jewish people were in the time of our blessed Saviour? Yet you read of Anna t;he Prophetess, who departed not from the Temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day. Many bad people frequented the place, but that was no reason with her for leaving it; she did not follow... | |
 | Henrietta Maria Bowdler - 1810 - 242 pages
...Duties of the Aged, . i .LUKK ii. 37, 38. jind sht 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 that looked... | |
 | Thomas Walson - 1810 - 186 pages
...limb, and reach forward to lay hold upon theu prize, We read of Anna, a prophetess, Luke ii. 37, She departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day. How industrious was Calvin in the Lord's vineyard. When his friends persuaded him for his health sake,... | |
 | Paul Wright - 1810 - 500 pages
...that of an aged matron, named Anna, whom the evangelist calls a prophetess ; and declares, that she departed not from the temple, but served God, with fastings and prayers, night and day. The meaning of which is, that she had dedicated herself to the service of God, and constantly attended... | |
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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. 
