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Luk 2:26. Ἦν, it was) perhaps for a long time back: although the old age in the case of Anna is specially noticed, it is not so in the case of Simeon.-μὴ ἰδεῖν-ἢ ἴδῃ, that he should not see-before that he saw) A sweet antithesis.-πρὶν ἢ, before that) Moreover, when he had seen Him, he was immediately about to depart; as appears from Luk 2:29, according to Thy word.-τὸν Χριστὸν Κυρίου, the Lord’s Christ [Anointed]) So, the Christ [Anointed] of God, ch. Luk 9:20. It is He whom the Lord hath anointed, and in comparison with Whom God acknowledges no other as His Anointed.