Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 2:37
37. A widow of fourscore years It is honorable to Israel that the true widow was honored. If Anna were married, as is often the case with girls in the East, at thirteen, was seven years a wife, and eighty-four years a widow, she was now one hundred and four years old. But more probably this eighty-four years was her entire age. Though second marriages were not forbidden, yet among both Jews and Romans, a reverence was paid to the pure widow who retained unbroken and unrepeated her first... read more
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 2:36-38
36-38. Anna the Prophetess. read more