Shìshījì 16:16

16 Dà lì là tiāntiān yòng huà cuībī tā , shènzhì tā xīnli fán mēn yào sǐ .

Shìshījì 16:16 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 16:16

And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her
words, and urged him
Lay at him day after day to communicate the secret to him, gave him no rest, but was incessant in her applications to him:

so that his soul was vexed unto death:
could hardly bear to live, but wished to die, being in the utmost perplexity what to do between two different passions, love and fear; on the one hand chained by his lust to this harlot, that was continually teasing him, and whom he had not an heart to leave, or otherwise that would have cleared him of his difficulties; and on the other hand, should he disclose the secret, he feared, and was in danger of losing his strength, in which his glory lay: or

``his soul was shortened unto death'' ^F3;

it was the means of shortening his days, and hastening his death. Abarbinel thinks that Samson was sensible of this, that his days were short, and the time of his death at hand; which made him the more willing to impart the secret. This may put in mind of the story of Milo, a man famous for his great strength, said to carry an ox upon his shoulders a furlong without breathing; of whom it is reported, that none of his adversaries could deliver themselves out of his hands, but his whore could, often contending with him; hence it is observed of him, that he was strong in body, but not of a manly soul {d}; and there are many other things said ^F5 of him concerning his great strength, which seem to be taken from this history of Samson.

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FOOTNOTES:

F3 (ruqt) "abbreviata est", Montanus, Drusius. So Munster.
F4 Aelian. Var. Hist. l. 2. c. 24.
F5 Vid. Pausan. Eliac. 2. sive. l. 6. p. 309.

Shìshījì 16:16 In-Context

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 .

16 Dà lì là tiāntiān yòng huà cuībī tā , shènzhì tā xīnli fán mēn yào sǐ .

17 Cānsūn jiù bǎ xīn zhōng suǒ cáng de dōu gàosu le tā , duì tā shuō , xiàng lái rén méiyǒu yòng tì tóu dāo tì wǒde tóu , yīnwei wǒ zì chū mǔ tāi jiù guī shén zuò ná xì ĕr rén . ruò tì le wǒde tóufa , wǒde lì qì jiù líkāi wǒ , wǒ biàn ruǎnfuò xiàng biérén yíyàng .

18 Dà lì là jiàn tā bǎ xīn zhōng suǒ cáng de dōu gàosu le tā , jiù dǎfa rén dào Fēilìshì rén de shǒulǐng nàli , duì tāmen shuō , tā yǐjing bǎ xīn zhōng suǒ cáng de dōu gàosu le wǒ , qǐng nǐmen zaì shàng lái yī cì . yúshì Fēilìshì rén de shǒulǐng shǒu lǐ ná zhe yínzi , shàng dào fùrén nàli .