Holy Scripture
1 Samuel 3:18
A church father on this verse
“25. He who considers this response of Eli more simply than he ought thinks that he responded as rightly as he did humbly. For as it is heard outwardly, what could he have responded more humbly, he who heard his own reprobation and offered to God who was threatening—indeed, promulgating the sentence of his reprobation—…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
18And Samuel reported all the words, and hid them not from him. And Eli said, He is the Lord, he shall do that which is good in his sight.
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16And Eli said to Samuel, Samuel, my son; and he said, Behold, here am I.
17And he said, What was the word that was spoken to thee? I pray thee hide it not from me: may God do these things to thee, and more also, if thou hide from me anything of all the words that were spoken to thee in thine ears.
— 1 Samuel 3:18 —
19And Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him, and there did not fall one of his words to the ground.
20And all Israel knew from Dan even to Beersheba, that Samuel was faithful as a prophet to the Lord.