Homilies on 1 Samuel (1 Kingdoms) — Fragment on Hannah's Song
This is a single catena fragment on Hannah's song (1 Samuel 2), preserved in the Canticum catena (the catena on the biblical odes). Origen follows the wording of his Greek Septuagint. Source: E. Klostermann, GCS 6 (Origenes Werke III, 1901). Released into the public domain.
[Fragment 1]
On 1 Samuel 2:3, 6, 10, 2, 10
Through this ode also he teaches the one who comes to God to place his hopes in him alone and to boast in him — not to boast greatly, but to be humble-minded. Inasmuch as he, being God, has the knowledge of all things, he renders to each according to his practices. And he himself is master of both death and life. And he exhorts us to know the Lord — clearly, that is, through good deeds — wherefore he adds the "to do judgment and righteousness in the midst of the earth." Inasmuch as he is a righteous judge of all the earth, he himself is strength, he himself is exaltation, he himself is a horn of salvation for those who love him.
