1-14, Three women, one after another, brought Samson down. If only a noble woman could have influenced him, as Deborah did Borak, how different his record would have been. Let those who are eminent in spiritual capacity guard against the swing of their nature to the opposite, sensual side.

It is clear that Samson’s strength was not wholly accounted for by huge stature nor massive muscles, else Delilah would not have needed to ask his secret; and he lost his strength, not merely because the razor deprived him of his hitherto unshorn locks, which lay in glossy ringlets at the feet of his temptress, but because he had yielded to her seductive wiles. We should have supposed that one or two ‘experiences of her shameful treachery would have sufficed to put him on his guard and lead him to flee from the spot, as did Joseph, Gen. 39:12. But Samson lingered, as the moth which seems unable to resist the fascination of the flame, althoagh already it has singed its wings, Prov. 1:10-19. There is always a way of escape, but id must take it with instant eagerness, Gen, 19: 17-2