and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn't depart from the temple, worshipping with fastings and petitions night and day.
      [2.] A blessing to the church: the glory of thy people Israel. It was an honour to the Jewish nation that the Messiah sprang out of one of their tribes, and was born, and lived, and died, among them. And of those who were Israelites indeed of the spiritual Israel, he was indeed the glory, and will be so to eternity, Isaiah 60:19. They shall glory in him. In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified and shall glory,Isaiah 45:25. When Christ ordered his apostles to preach the gospel to all nations, therein he made himself a light to lighten the Gentiles; and when he added, beginning at Jerusalem, he made himself the glory of his people Israel.