Judges — Chapter 16

And the cailed a barber , andihaued his feuen haires , and began to driue him away , and thruft him trom her: tor immediatel the ftrength dcparted trom him: 20, and {he faid : The Philitthiiins vpon thee Samfon, Who aryiing trom ileepe, faid in his mind: I wil go¢ torth as did before , and wilihake my felf, not knowing that our Lord was departedtrom him, 21, Whom when the Philifthiims had apprehended , forthwith they plucked forth his cies , and led him to Gaza bound with chaynes , and being thut vp in prifon they made him grinde, 22. And now his haires had begun to grow againe, 23. and the Princes of the Philifthiiims aflembled in one, that they might immolate magnifical hoftes to Dagon their God , and might teaft , faying: Our God hath deliuered our enemie Samfon into our hands. 24. Which } thing the people alfo {ceing , prayled their God, & {aid the fame things: Our God hath delivered our aducrfarie into our hands, who deftroyed our countrie , and killed veric manie, 25, And reioycing throughout their bankcts , whenthey had now taken their good cheere, they com- manded that Samfon fhould be called, and thould play betore them. Who being brought out ot prifon played before them , and they made him to fiand betwecn two piilers. 26. Who faid to the feruant that go- uerncd his {teps: Suffer me to touch the pillers , on which althe houfe ftayeth , and ler me leane vpon them, and reit a litle. 27. Andthe houfe Was tul of men and women , and there were al the Princes of the Phi- lifthiims , alfo trom the reete and higher part , about three thoufand of both fexe beholding Samfon playing. 28. But he inuocating our Lord, faid: Lord God remember ine , and reitore now to me myne old Tt {treneth SUSUR Oty poner The third part. Of certaine ac- {eidents which F (c) He defired fo be reuéged, fot of rancour of mind but of zeale of iuftice: And fo al the ele and vlo- rified Saints idefire reucnge, § Feaaad 18. uv. 3 ope, 6.¥.19, Samfon exeu- fed in killin himfelfe with SamfS a Goure of Chri 5 516 IVDGES. ‘{trength my God, that ] may (c) reuenge me of myne enemies, and tor the loffe of two cies may recciue one reuenge. 29, And taking both the pillers , on- which the houfe refted , and holding the one in his right hand, and the other in his lett, 30. he faid ; ” Lec me die with the Phi- lifthums, And the pillers being ftrongly fhaken , the houfe fel vpon al the Princes , and the reft of che multitude that was there: and he kil- led manie moe dying, then before he had killed liuing. 31, And his bre- thren going downe and al his kindred , they tooke his bodie , and bu- ried it betwixt Saraa and Efthaol in the fepulchre of his father Manue. and he iudged Ifrael twentie ycares. Samfon. —— ANNOTATIONS.

Gad di- rectly and extraordinarily concurred by reftoring in that moment his admirable ftrength,that he could pul downe two fuch pillers, And contormably we may ga- ther , chat God infpired his mind to attempt this fact , and fo he erred nor, but obeyed God herein , as S Auguftinenoteth 4, 1. c.a1.07 26.decinis, Dei, Secondly, he-was moued with zeale et Gods honour, hearing the [dolaters praife their falfe God Dagon. Thirdly,he had a good and pure intention to reuenge himfelfe for Gods more glorie,praying to him for reftauration of rength,Fourthy hedid not direaly defre to kil himfelfe , but to kil the Philifthiims, thougt, himfelfe mutt alfodie with them And in this a@ efpecially he was a figure of Chrift, who chiefly by his death conquered his enemies,