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which with a slight pull he broke like soft fleeces. Consulted again, he reports that ropes untouched, which become null when loosened by moisture, are to be feared. She binds the man, when now, weary with toil, his languid breast breathed forth a faint sleep. As soon as he felt the knots, he lashed the air and laughed at them, just as a spider weaves its like webs. Twice eluded in different ways, she yet dared to entreat, and again, by a feigned request, tests Samson with her asking. He answered her, who sought it, things diverse enough and not true: 'You loose my locks and, twisting them again, weave them, mindful, plaiting them no more than a single forearm's length; so it shall come about that my virtue, despoiled of its vigour, shall perish.' What had been foretold she does, and, trembling, rolling them back, she ties them, suspended by her right hand, and, bending them back on the stakes, binds him fast and hands him over, captive, to her comrades, Delilah:
leaping up, he hurls back the stakes and unbinds his hair. So often perjured, so often repulsed, she fears nothing; afresh she conjures him with ill-prepared tears, distraught, and presses into service every art to make him more pliable. And now his mind, softened, bears no more the feigned griefs and the deceit, but discloses to himself dire things, betrayed to his beloved: 'I am a Nazarite of the eternal Lord, believe me, and my strength is in my hair, nor does the blade cut the locks with iron point: but if anyone, applying it, should make my neck bald by stripping the crown, that will be for me the certain end of my unbought strength.' By these words faith is made manifest: soon, having taken the bribe, the woman cherishes Samson in her lap; she takes away all his powers and his locks — a barber hired for a fee. Samson is shaken from the couch, and, changed, the same man is seized.
And in one moment God together with his strength forsakes him. Straightway he is bereft of his twin light; for, his eye-sockets dug out, they left empty hollows, and, bound with a hard fetter, he mourns over his constrained legs; yet, blind, he does not know the shadow that possesses him. Shut up in prison, he turns the mill with the onset of his right hand: thus, by the twin weight of his flanks, the use of them comes to his aid. Nor was it long in the day before, with the honour of returning hair, his locks once cut were renewed; which at the same time restored to him both strength and dignity together. Behold, on a certain day the nobles came together in throngs to perform a solemn rite to that god whom, in their vanity, the worshippers hold as a deity. They call it Dagon, and by an ancient name. Here, while they rejoice over the downfall of the deposed Samson, standing far off in the midst of the temple's vault, they ordered the man to be summoned, now ready to conquer.
And, commanded to die, he is dragged in, and, while they are dissolved in laughter, from his blind eyes he furnishes causes for their wickedness. By chance the whole house hung upon two pillars, set beneath it: driving in between these, he grips both fast, and holds them in a full embrace, and settles himself back, that he may fall with a greater effort; and, having prayed the Lord as avenger, he drew down the ruin together with his own death. At this the bereaved father and brothers and all his kindred come together and mourn the dead and honour him with a sepulchre. [Him there follows Shamgar as leader, who by brave deeds slays six hundred and brings back glad times.] Amid these things Micah seeks from his mother a very great talent of silver, which the woman, trusting it to be holy, teaches to be a vow to God, but to be repaid at a fixed time; soon she makes lofty offerings to the holy one, and a teraphim and a temple to God.
And, his bosom filled, he who was the younger-born, a priest, brings gifts to the Lord. After this Micah chooses one of Judah, and binds to himself the man who was seeking a dwelling, with a heaped store of gifts; and, being taken up, by his vows he earned the sanctuaries of God. Behold, the tribe of Dan, suddenly seeking new realms, sends five envoys from their fellow body, searching out, so that they might prove all things, what portion of land is the better, where it may afterwards help to set up their seats. While these go about and survey the woodlands and trackless places, they come to Judah, weaving with him a friendly speech, as to what he should do, what sacred rites he should renew. To them, asking, after he had set forth those things, he, being constrained, consults; and he displayed the commands of the high Lord God and the supernal favour, and then commends them, having been bidden, to depart. These things, returning, they taught their own people;
and now in a dense column six hundred come. They carry the ephod and the graven image and the teraphim, and ask Judah to settle with them. When Micah prepared to call back the fugitive, he is driven off; the priest, once taken in, does not wish to return. Laish is assailed in war, and, its roofs burned, it loses its seats, and to the mournful denies its citadels. And the band of conquerors with zeal settles itself there and gave it the name of the tribe; for it is called Dan. There was a certain man, a Levite, who, having no wife, sought intercourse from a maidservant. She, given to it, departed, sundering the common yoke, and, hostile, flies far off and shuns the company of the despised bed. When her husband wished anxiously to call her back, he was leading with himself the common servant and the beasts of burden, coming to his father-in-law and asking back his daughter according to the covenant;
the father-in-law promises and coaxingly cherishes him, and, by gently detaining him, entices him to stay with him. Soon, sitting down, he eats and, secure, rests in a peaceful abode. KINGS 1: at last, however, he reached the sought-for household gods. Beware now, wretched one, lest, while you know it not and dare, it creep upon you and cut a part from your flowing garment. KINGS 2: ... as the tenderest little worm of the wood ... Him there follows Shamgar as leader, who by brave deeds slays six hundred and brings back glad times. (XXIII. Cyprian the poet) KINGS 3: hence, advancing again through the walls of the sacred temple, and with distended belly showing forth a full fattening. KINGS 4: greater than the purple tyrants of the Persians upon their throne. CHRONICLES 1.
And, having distributed to mine, I assign just labours to the just, and commanded that with refined gold of no small weight ... CHRONICLES 2. JUDITH. ESTHER. JOB: from the wool-bearing flocks and the warlike youth of horses. OF UNCERTAIN PLACE: yet to all these it stands sufficiently, what you have willed. By angelic warning they seek again the realms of Canopus. Nor would the lurking wolf gnaw away the lambs of Christ. And a deformed servitude oppresses the captive band. He bestowed also upon the old man the holy votes of salvation.