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The Danger of Infatuation
Commentators agree that Samson's primary fault was not stupidity but, as Charles Ellicott states, "sensual infatuation." Matthew Henry calls licentiousness a "deep pit" that "takes away the heart." The story serves as a powerful moral lesson that unchecked passion can lead step-by-step to ruin, shame, and the loss of God's gifts.
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Charles Ellicott
On Judges 16:6
19th Century
Bishop
And with what you might be bound. —The narrative, if taken as a full account of all that took place, would leave in the mind an im…
John Gill
On Judges 16:6
17th Century
Pastor
And Delilah said to Samson
At a proper opportunity, when in his hands and caresses, as Josephus relates F5
Matthew Henry
On Judges 16:4–17
17th Century
Minister
Samson had been more than once brought into mischief and danger by the love of women, yet he would not take warning, but is again taken in the same…