One Anna a prophetess (Hαννα προφητις). The word προφητις occurs in the N.T. only here and Re 2:20. In old Greek writers it means …

Of the tribe of Aser. The tribe of Aser, or Asher, lived in the northern part of the land of Canaan. Why Anna was called a prophetess is n…

One Anna, a prophete .—The fact is in many ways remarkable. We find a woman recognized as a prophete at a time when no man is reco…

St. Ambrose of Milan: Simeon had prophesied, a woman united in marriage had prophesied, and a virgin had prophesied. It was …

Luke’s attention to the renewal of prophecy through Zechariah and Simeon at the coming of the Me ianic Age continues with the introduction of Anna …

And there was Anna, a prophetess (Luke 2:36). Luke mentions not more than two persons who received Christ, and this is intende…

And there was one Anna
The name is the same with Hannah: so Hannah, the mother of Samuel, is by the Septuagint calle…

There was much evil then in the church, yet God did not leave himself without witne . Anna always dwelt in, or at least attended, the temple. She w…