Hannah
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
the mother of Samuel · the wife of Elkanah
in the texts
Adversus Marcionem
Mother of Samuel whose prayer in the book of Kingdoms is quoted to parallel Christ's beatitude on the poor.
So too of old in Kingdoms, Hannah, the mother of Samuel, rendering glory to God in spirit, "Who," she says, "raises the poor from the earth and the beggar, that he may make him sit with the chiefs of the people" — surely in his kingdom — "and on thrones of glory" — surely royal ones.
De ieiunio adversus psychicos
Wife of Elkanah, mother of Samuel, whose fasting and vow are rewarded with a prophet son.
"And he shall drink no wine and no strong drink"—for she herself prayed to God in this manner.
So fasting is a work of reverence toward God, through which Hannah too, the wife of Elkanah, formerly barren, in her longing easily obtained from God to fill with a son the belly emptied of food—and a son who was a prophet.