And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It [is] the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good.
Ver. 18. Told him every whit.] Bitter truths must be spoken, however they be taken; and if ministers be mannerly in the form, yet in the matter of their message let them be resolute.
It is the Lord.] Jehovah the Essentiator and the Promise keeper.
Let him do, a &c.] His holy will be done. This he speaketh not out of pervicacy or hypocrisy, as some have censured, but in a humble submission to his heavenly Father: for if Eli had been an ill father to his sons, yet he was a good son to God.
a Faciat quod vult, non discedo: Et si perire me volet, ipse perdat me, dum ego serve illi. - Tertul.