【正教会】女先知亚拿(Anna the Prophetess)

『ルカによる福音書』2:36-38に登場する女性の預言者。正教会で聖人。正教会での称号は預言女アンナ。正教会での祭日は2月3日（2月16日）。

アシェル族のファヌエルの娘で、若いときに夫に死に別れてからエルサレム神殿で神に仕える暮らしをしていた。八十四歳のとき、イエスと両親が神殿をおとずれたのを見、救い主であるイエスをつかわした神を賛美して、イエスのことをエルサレムの人々に告げた。

亚拿，天主教译为亚纳，是《新约圣经·路加福音》中的女先知，亚设支派法内力的女儿。

在耶路撒冷圣殿预言耶稣。她出现在《路加福音》第2章第36-38节，献小耶稣于圣殿的一段情节中。

除了路加福音的记载之外，人们对亚拿的生活和背景一无所知。从路加福音这3节的记载中，可以知道：

是一位女先知。是法内力的一个女儿。属于亚设支派。出嫁7年后就开始寡居（不清楚丈夫的姓名）。是一位虔诚的犹太教徒，定期实行祷告和禁食。

敬礼

东正教会将女先知亚拿列为圣人。东正教会传统上将亚拿和义人西面视为旧约时代最后的先知，敬礼日定在2月3日/2月16日[1].。

她的肖像也被画在献耶稣于圣殿（圣母进堂）的圣像上，和婴孩耶稣、马利亚、约瑟和义人西面一起。东正教传统认为，耶稣通过会见西面(曼吼歇雷需摆士)和亚拿(利亚)二人，会见他的以色列子民[2]。在东正教圣像中，亚拿常被画在马利亚身后。亚拿还向基督举起右手，向群众显示他就是基督，或手拿先知常拿的一个卷轴。

Anna (Hebrew: חַנָּה‎, Ancient Greek: Ἄννα) or Anna the Prophetess is a woman mentioned in the Gospel of Luke. According to that Gospel, she was an elderly woman of the Tribe of Asher who prophesied about Jesus at the Temple of Jerusalem. She appears in Luke 2:36–38 during the presentation of Jesus at the Temple.

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1New Testament2Church traditions and veneration3References4External links

New Testament[edit]

The passage mentioning Anna is as follows:

Luke 2:36–38 There was also a prophet, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was very old; she had lived with her husband seven years after her marriage, and then was a widow until she was eighty-four.[*] She never left the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying. Coming up to them at that very moment, she gave thanks to God and spoke about the child to all who were looking forward to the redemption of Jerusalem. Footnote: Or then had been a widow for eighty-four years. New International Version

From these three verses in Luke, the following is known of Anna:

She was a prophetess.She was a daughter of Phanuel.She was a member of the tribe of Asher.She was widowed after seven years of marriage (her husband is not named).She was a devout Jew who regularly practiced prayer and fasting.

Luke describes Anna as "very old". Many Bibles and older commentaries state that she was 84 years old.[1][2]

The Greek text states καὶ αὐτὴ χήρα ὡς ἐτῶν ὀγδοηκοντατεσσάρων, generally translated as "she was a widow of eighty four years".[3] The passage is ambiguous: it could mean that she was 84 years old, or that she had been a widow for 84 years.[4][5] Some scholars consider the latter to be the more likely option.[6] On this option, she could not have married younger than about age 14, and so she would have been at least 14 + 7 + 84 = 105 years old.[7]

Church traditions and veneration[edit]

The Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church commemorate Anna as a saint, Anna the Prophetess. The Eastern Orthodox Church considers Anna and Simeon the God-Receiver as the last prophets of Old Testament and observes their feast on February 3/February 16 as the synaxis (afterfeast) following the Presentation of Christ, which Orthodox tradition calls "The Meeting of Our Lord and God and Savior, Jesus Christ".[8] Along with Simeon, the prophetess Anna is commemorated on February 3 in the Byzantine rite of the Catholic Church.[9]

Also her figure is drawn in the icons of the Presentation of Christ, together with the Holy Child and the Virgin Mary, Joseph and Simeon the God-Receiver. Orthodox tradition considers that Christ met his people, Israel, in the persons of those two, Simeon and Anna.[10]