And all prophets from Samuel and afterward, that spake, told these days.
Moses and Aaron were among his priests; and Samuel was among them that inwardly call his name. They inwardly called the Lord, and he heard them;
And the Lord said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, my soul is not to this people; cast thou them out from my face, and go they out.
And he began at Moses and at all the prophets, and declared [or expounded] to them in all scriptures, that were of him.
as after four hundred and fifty years. And after these things he gave doomsmen, [till] to Samuel, the prophet.
and opened, and showed that it behooved Christ to suffer, and rise again from death, and that this is Jesus Christ, whom I tell to you.
if Christ is to suffer, if he is the first of the again-rising of dead men, that shall show light to the people and to heathen men.
Therefore be ye repentant, and be ye converted, that your sins be done away, that when the times of refreshing shall come from the sight of the Lord,
Whom it behooveth heaven to receive, into the times of restitution of all things, which the Lord spake by the mouth of his holy prophets from the world.
But now without the law the rightwiseness of God is showed, that is witnessed of the law and the prophets.
Forsooth Samuel, a child girded with a linen cloth, ministered before the face of the Lord.
Forsooth the child Samuel ministered to the Lord before Eli, and the word of the Lord was precious; in those days was none open revelation.
And all Israel from Dan to Beer-sheba knew, that faithful Samuel was a prophet of the Lord.