Samson’s Seeking Occasion

It is not easy to set forth Samson in a right light ethically. Certainly he was a true believer. The Scriptures make this unmistakably clear. But was he, as a believer, a man with strong spiritual impulses and with a flowering faith or must he be classified with carnal believers? Was he, with all his sensuality, a man passionately devoted to the cause of Israel's God? How the liberal interpreters judge about the man is clear from the following excerpt from the pen of one of their number....