προφῆτις. Why Anna is so called the Commentators are not agreed. Some take the word in the sense of “a predictress of future events;” as in the Apoc. 2, 20.; others think she is so called, as being the wife of a prophet.
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προφῆτις. Why Anna is so called the Commentators are not agreed. Some take the word in the sense of “a predictress of future events;” as in the Apoc. 2, 20.; others think she is so called, as being the wife of a prophet.
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“Call me Eva,” said the woman, “the predictress of fate. Lady, I have but little to say now; but will you meet me to-morrow at midnight, under the large porch, in the Abbey church-yard, opposite to St. Margaret’s church; but remember, lady, you are to come alone, bring not your rival with you; I will tell you that which it is well you should know:—will you be there?”
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Who did not hear the Hertfordshire predictress, / E’en in the council-room, assure our men / These measures were approved of from above, / And ratified by heavenly sanction?
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But it cannot be dissembled (since he was unwilling to leave anything in this direction untried) that when a youth he was led by his inquisitiveness to the study of astrology, which is said to be the predictress of future events; […]
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