Samson and Delilah

Samson had possessed the gates of his enemies. As was said, this achievement of our hero forms the climax to his whole career, which now drew rapidly to a sad yet victorious close. In his carnality, he now played into the hands of his enemies, who finally succeeded in getting him into their power through the treachery of a woman. The sacred writer goes on to say, "And it came to pass afterwards, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah from the Hebrew "dalal" meaning...