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 prophetess.—The fact is in many ways remarkable. We find a woman recognized as a prophetess at a time when no man is r…

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 Messianic 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 witness. Anna always dwelt in, or at least attended, the temple. She …