Chapter 4.
After these things, her nine months being fulfilled,
Anna brought forth a daughter, and called her Mary. And having
weaned her in her third year, Joachim, and Anna his wife, went together
to the temple of the Lord to offer sacrifices to God, and placed the
infant, Mary by name, in the community of virgins, in which the virgins
remained day and night praising God. And when she was put down
before the doors of the
temple, she went up the fifteen steps1628
| 1628 Corresponding
with the fifteen Songs of Degrees, Ps. cxx.–cxxxiv. See Smith’s
Dict.—art. Songs of Degrees. Another reading
is: And there were about the temple, according to the fifteen
Psalms of Degrees, fifteen steps of ascent: the temple was on a
mountain, and there had been there built the altar of burnt-offering,
which could not be reached but by steps. |
so swiftly, that she did not look back
at all; nor did she, as
children are wont to do,
seek for her
parents. Whereupon her
parents, each of them anxiously seeking
for the
child, were both alike astonished, until they found her in the
temple, and the priests of the temple themselves
wondered.
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