⁸ A third time the Lord called, “Samuel!” And Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, “Here I am; you called me.”

Then Eli realized that the Lord was calling the boy.

¹¹ When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood^(A) behind me. ¹² For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror;^(B) then we shall see face to face.^(C) Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.^(D)