And Eli said to her. — The Septuagint attempts to soften the harshness of the high priest to Hannah by inserting before E…

And Eli said unto her, how long will you be drunken ?
&c.] What, every day drunk? what, continually in this wick…

Hannah mingled tears with her prayers; she considered the mercy of our God, who knows the troubled soul. God allows us, in prayer, not only to ask …