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<p class="tab-1">Samson’s name (we have observed before) signifies a little sun (sol parvus); we have seen this sun rising very bright, and his morning ray strong and clear; and, nothing appearing to the contrary, we take it for granted that the middle of the day was proportionably illustrious, while he judged Israel twenty years; but the melancholy story of this chapter gives us such an account of his evening as did not commend his day. This little sun set under a cloud, and yet, just in the setting, darted forth one such strong and glorious beam as made him even then a type of Christ, conquering by death. Here is, I. Samson greatly endangered by his familiarity with one harlot, and hardly escaping, <a class="bibleref" title="Judg.16.1-Judg.16.3" href="/passage/?search=Judg.16.1-Judg.16.3">Jdg. 16:1-3</a>. II. Samson quite ruined by his familiarity with another harlot, Delilah. Observe, 1. How he was betrayed to her by his own lusts, <a class="bibleref" title="Judg.16.4" href="/passage/?search=Judg.16.4">Jdg. 16:4</a>. 2. How he was betrayed by her to his sworn enemies, the Philistines, who, (1.) By her means got it out of him at last where his great strength lay, <a class="bibleref" title="Judg.16.5-Judg.16.17" href="/passage/?search=Judg.16.5-Judg.16.17">Jdg. 16:5-17</a>. (2.) Then robbed him of his strength, by taking from his head the crown of his separation, <a class="bibleref" title="Judg.16.18-Judg.16.20" href="/passage/?search=Judg.16.18-Judg.16.20">Jdg. 16:18-20</a>. (3.) Then seized him, blinded him, imprisoned him, abused him, and, at a solemn festival, made a show of him, <a class="bibleref" title="Judg.16.21-Judg.16.25" href="/passage/?search=Judg.16.21-Judg.16.25">Jdg. 16:21-25</a>. But, lastly, he avenged himself of them by pulling down the theatre upon their heads, and so dying with them, <a class="bibleref" title="Judg.16.26-Judg.16.31" href="/passage/?search=Judg.16.26-Judg.16.31">Jdg. 16:26-31</a>.</p>
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