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Jdg_14:17 And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she lay sore upon him: and she told the riddle to the children of her people.
Ver. 17. And she wept before him the seven days.] Or, Unto the seventh day; this was no less unseasonable and absurd than music in mourning.
He told her, because she lay sore upon him.] Whom the lion could not conquer, the tears of a woman have conquered. Samson never bewrayed infirmity but in mulierosity {Excessive fondness for women} and uxoriousness. {doting or submissive fondness of one’s wife} Utinam tam prudens ad cavendam mulierem fuisset quam fortis ad strangulandum leonem, saith Paulinus. I would he had been as wise as valiant. But many military men are fleshly minded.