Dark History of the Bible by Michael Kerrigan

Author:Michael Kerrigan [Kerrigan, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Amber Books Ltd
Published: 2015-02-17T00:00:00+00:00

Sweetness, Strength and Savagery

A standard superhero story, then. Later, though, the plot was to thicken. Passing by the same place, Samson saw that there was a nest of bees, full of honey, inside the lion’s carcass.

Samson used this as the basis for a riddle to confound his fiancée’s family’s Philistine acquaintances. If they could solve it, he said, he would give them ‘thirty sheets and thirty changes of garments’ (14, 12). ‘Out of the eater came forth meat,’ went the riddle; ‘and out of the strong came forth sweetness’ (14, 14). The ‘meat’ here (in its old sense, of meaning simply ‘food’) was the honey, which had come out of the lion’s belly; the sweetness too was the honey from inside the ‘strong’, the lion.

Driven almost demented by their inability to solve this riddle, the Philistines threatened to kill his bride if she didn’t reveal the answer: when she did, it was Samson who was mad with rage. Immediately embarking on his own one-man war with the Philistines, he killed 30 of their young men at random and took the clothes off their backs to settle up his wager (14, 19).

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