1 Samuel 1:13

• §2578Article 1 · In the Old TestamentRead at vatican.va

  “At first the leaders of the people - the shepherds and the prophets - teach them to pray. the infant Samuel must have learned from his mother Hannah how "to stand before the LORD" and from the priest Eli how to listen to his word: "Speak, LORD, for your servant is listening."” — Catechism footnote: 1 Sam 3:9-10; cf. 1:9-18.

Cyril of Jerusalem

• Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures Lecture 1

  “And let the married woman also follow the same example, and pray; and let her lips move, but her voice be unheard, that a Samuel may come, and thy barren soul give birth to the salvation of “God who hath heard thy prayer;” for this is the interpretation of the name Samuel.” — editor's note: 1 Sam. i. 13, 20. On the various interpretations of the name Samuel, see Dict. Bib. “Samuel,” and Driver on the passage. Cyril adopts the meaning “heard of…

  Read the whole comment

John Chrysostom

• John Chrysostom, Homilies on Matthew Homily 6

  “…those shed in anguish and in sorrow, those which are for God alone; such as were Hannah’s, for “her lips moved,” it is said, “but her voice was not heard;”however, her tears alone uttered a cry more clear than any trumpet.” — editor's note: 1 Sam. i. 13. [The LXX., followed in the text, reads και “and her voice,” etc.—R.]

  Read the whole comment
• John Chrysostom, Homilies on Matthew Homily 19

  “And Hannah too again, her voice not being heard, accomplished all she wished, forasmuch as her heart cried out.” — editor's note: 1 Sam. i. 13.

  Read the whole comment

Tertullian

• Tertullian, On Fasting Chapter 7

  “Thus a God-ward fast is a work of reverential awe: and by its means also Hannah the wife of Elkanah making suit, barren as she had been beforetime, easily obtained from God the filling of her belly, empty of food, with a son, ay, and a prophet.” — editor's note: See 1 Sam. i. 1, 2, 7–20; iii. 20 (in LXX. 1 Kings).

  Read the whole comment

Cyprian of Carthage

• Cyprian of Carthage, On the Lord's Prayer

  “Divine Scripture asserts this, when it says, “She spake in her heart, and her lips moved, and her voice was not heard; and God did hear her.”” — editor's note: 1 Sam. i. 13.

  Read the whole comment

Clement of Alexandria

• Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.12Book VI

  “For example, to Anna, on her merely conceiving the thought, conception was vouchsafed of the child Samuel.” — editor's note: 1 Sam. i. 13.

  Read the whole comment
• Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies VII.7Book VII

  “Though whispering, consequently, and not opening the lips, we speak in silence, yet we cry inwardly.” — editor's note: [1 Sam. i. 13. See this same chapter, infra, p. 535.]

  Read the whole comment

• 1 Samuel 3:9

  Cited together in Catechism §2578.

• 1 Samuel 3:10

  Cited together in Catechism §2578.

• 1 Samuel 12:23

  Cited together in Catechism §2578.

• Tobit 12:8

  Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.12.

• Psalm 17:3

  Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.12.

• Psalm 17:4

  Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.12.

• Psalm 41:2

  Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VII.7.

• Wisdom 2:22

  Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.12.

• Matthew 5:48

  Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.12.

• John 13:33

  Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.12.

• 2 Corinthians 6:7

  Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.12.

• James 4:3

  Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VII.7.

• Genesis 18:12

  Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.12.

• Genesis 20:12

  Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.12.

• Exodus 34:29

  Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.12.