Patristic A.D. 253
“But because Anna’s words were nothing remarkable, and of no great note respecting Christ, the Gospel does not give the particulars of what she said, and perhaps for this reason one may suppose that Simeon anticipated her, since he indeed bore the character of the law, (for his name signifies obedience,) but she the character of grace, (which her name is by interpretation,) and Christ came between them. Therefore He let Simeon depart dying with the law, but Anna he sustains living beyond through grace.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 2:36-38
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗