Samson, a True Servant of God

It requires some thought 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 unspiritual Christians? Was he, des­pite his sensuality, a man passionately devoted to the cause of Israel's God? How some interpreters judge about the man is clear from the following ex­cerpt of one of their number. It...