Simeon
historical figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
a man just and prudent · no bigamist · the old man
in the texts
De Carne Christi
The aged man of the temple presentation narrative who receives the infant Christ.
Nay, let the infant not be circumcised, lest he feel pain, nor be carried to the temple, lest he burden his parents with the cost of an offering, nor be handed into the arms of Simeon, lest the old man, about to die, be made sad thereby.
But we acknowledge the fulfilment of the prophetic voice of Simeon, pronounced over the Lord while still a recent infant:
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Charles Simeon, evangelical preacher invoked rhetorically in describing Shaftesbury's temperament.
If Lord Shaftesbury’s collegiate career were at some future time to be inferred from his tastes and from his opinions, the obvious surmise of an historical inquirer would be that his Lordship graduated at Cambridge and never missed a sermon of Simeon’s.
De Monogamia
Figure at the temple presentation who receives the infant Christ, described as no bigamist
A man just and prudent, and surely no bigamist—lest, soon after, Christ should be the more worthily proclaimed by a woman, an aged widow and wife of one man, who, being also dedicated to the temple, portended sufficiently in her own person what manner of persons ought to cleave to the spiritual temple, that is, the Church.