And Delilah said to Samson
At a proper opportunity, when in his hands and caresses, as
Josephus relates F5, and introduced it in an artful
manner, admiring his strange exploits, and wondering how he could
perform them:
tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength
lieth;
which she proposed seemingly out of mere curiosity, and as it
would be a proof of his affection to her, to impart the secret to
her:
and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict
thee;
not that she suggested to him that she was desirous to have him
afflicted, or to try the experiment herself in order to afflict
him, but to know by what means, if he was bound, it would be
afflicting to him so that he could not relieve himself; she knew
he might be bound, if he would admit of it, as he had been, but
she wanted to know how he might be bound, so as to be held, and
could not loose himself.