36And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;
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And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.
And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy.
And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 25-40)Even when he humbles himself, still Christ has honour done him to balance the offence of it. That we might not be stumbled at the meanness of his birth, angels then did him honour; and now, that we may not be offended at his being presented in the temple, like other children born in sin, and without any manner of solemnity peculiar to him, but silently, and in the crowd of other children, Simeon a…
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