As many readers and critics, including Joyce himself, admit, the city of Dublin in the early twentieth century is the ``center of paralysis,`` in which the vicious circle of paralysis repeats with the living-dead prevailing the city. Such key words as ``paralysis,`` ``gnomon,`` and ``simony,`` hovering over the consciousness of the boy in front of the dying priest`s house, permeate every part of the work, tainting the whole atmosphere. And Joyce himself intends to write a page of ``the moral history`` of his home country by showing every bit of ``dear dirty Dublin`` to the Dubliners themselves and all the readers so that they may realize present state of the city. However, re-reading of Dubliners is likely to help the reader realize the implied hope for the recovery from this paralytic situation. The possibility of recovery becomes clear when we read the short stories of Dubliners with a certain idea of the Bible on the basis of the theory of "chronotope" presented by Mikhail Bakhtin. The boy narrator in "The Sisters" is fostered by his uncle and aunt due to his father`s absence. He also receives religious education from Father Flynn who seems to have an intention to make the boy his successor. Although the boy seems to live a passive life as such, it also seems clear that he is in the same chronotope with Samuel in the Old Testament. That is to say, the image of Samuel, the last judge and the first prophet of Israel, who was called and educated as a new spiritual and political leader for the paralyzed Israel, is projected on the boy narrator in the story. In brief, the dialogical characteristics of Bakhtin`s chronotope have enabled us to perceive the unconscious desire for the recovery of faith in an individual sense, a new Reformation in a collective sense, and further more, the appearance of a new prophet, who will stand in the center of the changes, as was shown in "the Book of Samuel" in the Old Testament.