Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.
Ver. 13. She spake in her heart.] Vocis egit silentio ut corde clamaret, as Augustine saith of Moses. Exo 14:4-5 Non vex sed votum.
Therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.] Here was devotion misconstrued. So was it in those good souls that were puriores caelo, as Chrysostom saith; Act 2:13 in those ancient martyrs, whose constancy was counted obstinacy; a and in those modern martyrs, who were said to be actuated by the spirits of the buttery, and to go drunken to the stake. b
a Tertul., Apolog.
b Act. and Mon., 1653.