And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher: she was of a great age, and had lived with a husband seven years from her virginity;
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Irenaeus of Lyons
AD 202
Was a type of the Demiurge, who, on the arrival of the Saviour, learned his own change of place, and gave thanks to By thus. They also assert that by Anna, who is spoken of in the gospel
