Luke 2:36 Douay-Rheims

And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser; she was far advanced in years, and had lived with her husband seven years from her virginity.

Gregory of Nyssa

c. A.D. 335–395 Patristic

(ubi sup.) Or because at that time there were several others who were called by the same name, that there might be a plain way of distinguishing her, he mentions her father, and describes the quality of her parents.

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A.D. 395 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 2:36-38

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