Shìshījì 16:13

13 Dà lì là duì Cānsūn shuō , nǐ dào rújīn háishì qī hōng wǒ , xiàng wǒ shuōhuǎng yán . qiú nǐ gàosu wǒ , dāng yòng hé fǎ kúnbǎng nǐ . Cānsūn huídá shuō , nǐ ruò jiāng wǒ tóu shàng de qī tiaó fā liǔ , yǔ wĕi xiàn tóng zhī jiù kĕyǐ le .

Shìshījì 16:13 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 16:13

And Delilah said unto Samson
At another time, when she thought it most proper to upbraid him with his deception of her:

hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies;
both the times that she had solicited him to impart the secret of his strength to her:

tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound;
tell me the real truth, and deceive me no more:

and he said unto her, if thou weavest the seven locks of my head with
the web;
it seems that Samson's hair was parted into seven locks, which no doubt hung down very long; and now he tells her, that if these were interwoven with the warp which was upon the beam in a loom near by; perhaps in the same room, where Delilah used to weave, as was the custom of those times, and in various nations ^F1; his strength would be weakened; for Braunius ^F2 is mistaken in supposing this to be the beam about which the web was rolled, as he is also in the pin next mentioned, which he takes to be the "spatha", or lathe, with which the threads are knocked together.

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 "Arguto conjux" Virgil. Georgie. l. 1. v. 294. So Penelope in Homer, Minerva & Arachne in Ovid. Metamorph. l. 6. fab. 1. v. 55, &c. Vid. Pignorium de servis, p. 418. Braunium de Vest. Sacerd. Hebr. l. 1. c. 17. sect. 33.
F2 "De Vest". Sacerd. Hebr. l. 1. c. 16. sect. 8.

Shìshījì 16:13 In-Context

11 Cānsūn huídá shuō , rén ruò yòng méiyǒu shǐ guō de xīn shéng kúnbǎng wǒ , wǒ jiù ruǎnfuò xiàng biérén yíyàng .

12 Dà lì là jiù yòng xīn shéng kúnbǎng tā . duì tā shuō , Cānsūn nǎ . Fēilìshì rén ná nǐ lái le . yǒu rén yùxiān máifu zaì neì shì lǐ . Cānsūn jiāng bì shàng de shéng zhēng duàn le , rú zhēng duàn yī tiaó xiàn yíyàng .

13 Dà lì là duì Cānsūn shuō , nǐ dào rújīn háishì qī hōng wǒ , xiàng wǒ shuōhuǎng yán . qiú nǐ gàosu wǒ , dāng yòng hé fǎ kúnbǎng nǐ . Cānsūn huídá shuō , nǐ ruò jiāng wǒ tóu shàng de qī tiaó fā liǔ , yǔ wĕi xiàn tóng zhī jiù kĕyǐ le .

14 Yúshì dà lì là jiāng tāde fā liǔ yǔ wĕi xiàn tóngzhī , yòng juézi dīng zhù , duì tā shuō , Cānsūn nǎ . Fēilìshì rén ná nǐ lái le . Cānsūn cóng shuì zhōng xǐng lái , jiāng Jīshàng de juézi hé wĕi xiàn yī qídōu bá chūlai le .

15 Dà lì là duì Cānsūn shuō , nǐ jì bù yǔ wǒ tóngxīn , zĕnme shuō nǐ aì wǒ ne . nǐ zhè sān cì qī hōng wǒ , méiyǒu gàosu wǒ , nǐ yīn hé yǒu zhème dà de lì qì .