 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.  Sermons - Seite 53von Isaac Milner - 1820 - 447 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1853 - 1142 Seiten
...VET TL VII. IENT PIETY IN THE AGED. " And f he was a widow of about four score and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day." — LDKI ii. 37. THIS is recorded of Anna the prophetess, who like the aged Simeon, was waiting for... | |
 | Cyprian (st, bp. of Carthage.) - 1832 - 212 Seiten
...temple, and praying without intermission, as we find it written of her in the gospel, which saith, that " she departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day." Let the Gentiles therefore look to it, who want, as yet, this salutary light ; and let the Jews take... | |
 | George Bush - 1832 - 250 Seiten
...there as female ministers for pious purposes. So it is said of Anna, the prophetess, Luke 2. 37. that she 'departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.' Paul also speaks, 1 Tim. 5.5. of the desolate widow which ' trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications... | |
 | Richard Burgess - 1832 - 356 Seiten
...he might avoid giving offence. Of the prophetess Anna, it is said, and that with approbation, that she departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day. James was of a similar cast of devotion, he is reported, by the writers I have just named, to have... | |
 | Samuel Wood (B.A.) - 1832 - 244 Seiten
...Israel." There was also one Anna, a prophetess; she was of a great age, being eighty-four years old ; and she departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day. And she, coming in at that instant, gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of Jesus to all those... | |
 | Harvey Marriott - 1832 - 194 Seiten
...to all them that looked for redemption in Israel;" (Luke ii. 38 ;) and of her it is testified, that she " departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day." (ver. 37.) It was the widow's only son whom Christ raised to life at Nain, and soothed her grief in... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 578 Seiten
...Mar. ix. 23. And "she" (" Anna the prophetess") ma* a widow of about fourscore and four years, which Le. xviii. 5. I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, Lu. ii. 37* The things which are impossible with men are possible with God. Lu. xviii. 2?. 21 This... | |
 | Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch - 1832 - 168 Seiten
...had lived with a husband seven years ; 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... | |
 | Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch - 1832 - 166 Seiten
...had lived with a husband seven years ; 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... | |
 | 1832 - 244 Seiten
...years from her virginity ; 37 And she was a widow of ahout fourscore and four years, which departei not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day 33 And she coming in that instant, gave. thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spafce of him to all them... | |
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