Shìshījì 15:16

16 Cānsūn shuō , wǒ yòng lü sāi gú shārén chéng duī , yòng lü sāi gú shā le yī qiā rén .

Shìshījì 15:16 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 15:16

And Samson said
In a kind of triumphant song:

with the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps;
that is, with such an instrument he had slain heaps of men, who lay dead in heaps upon one another; in the words for an "ass", and for an "heap", is an elegant "paronomosia", not easy to be expressed in our language:

with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men:
this he said not in a proud and haughty manner, ascribing it to himself, as Josephus suggests ^F13, since he takes notice of the mean instrument he used; which showed that he was sensible it was not done by his own power, but by the power of God, which enabled him by such weak means to do such wonderful things.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 Antiqu. l. 5. c. 8. sect. 9.

Shìshījì 15:16 In-Context

14 Cānsūn dào le lì xī , Fēilìshì rén dōu yíng zhe xuān nāng . Yēhéhuá de líng dàdà gǎndòng Cānsūn , tā bei5 shàng de shéng jiù xiàng huǒshào de má yíyàng , tāde bǎng shéng dōu cóng tā shǒu shàng tuō luō xià lái .

15 Tā jiàn yī kuaì wèi gān de lü sāi gú , jiù shēnshǒu shí qǐlai , yòng yǐ jī shā yī qiā rén .

16 Cānsūn shuō , wǒ yòng lü sāi gú shārén chéng duī , yòng lü sāi gú shā le yī qiā rén .

17 Shuō wán zhè huà , jiù bǎ nà sāi gú cóng shǒu lǐ pāo chū qù le . nà dì biàn jiào là mò lì xī .

18 Cānsūn shén jué kǒu kĕ , jiù qiúgào Yēhéhuá shuō , nǐ jì jiè púrén de shǒu shīxíng zhème dà de zhĕngjiù , qǐ kĕ rén wǒ kĕ sǐ , luō zaì wèi shòu gēlǐ de rén shǒu zhōng ne .