...shirts ; but if they could not, they were to forfeit the like to him. The words of the riddle were, ' Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness ;' which so puzzled the young men, that they could not for their hearts devise...

...number of coats. They answered him : Put forth the riddle that we may hear it. 14 And he said to them : Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days expound the riddle. 15 And when the seventh...

...garments. And they said unto him, Put forth thy riddle, that we may hear it. ~ 14 And he said unto them, Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they <;cruld -not in three days expound the riddle. > Gen. jd». 22 ; 2 Kings...

...garments. And they said И unto him, I'nr forth thy riddle, that we may hear it. And he said unto them, rought a sword before the king. And the King said, Divi came forth sweetness. 15 And they could not in three days expound the riddle. And it came to pass on...

...as he would tear a kid, when he turned aside to see it, behold a swarm of bees and honey in it ! " Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness." Out of grief, misfortune, bereavement, the poet brings gladness, profit, consolation....

...bees had made a hive of it. He therefore proposed this riddle to thirty youths at his bridal feast : Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. 6. The answer to the riddle was betrayed to the young men by the wife of Samson,...

...earthly Sovereign. The signal failure of our adversaries' schemes reminded me of Samson's enigma " Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness." I must not omit to mention that while I was in London I stayed tho whole time...

...striking figures; — that truth, which was the subject of all the Old Testament mysteries or figures : ' Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.' The subject, and the language in which it was couched, would have been at once...

...swarming, will form their city in the hollow of a tree, or other cavity. Thus the scriptural riddle, " Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness" (Judges, chapter xiv.), may be solved by supposing that the carcass of the lion...

...unpleasant to sense, without regard to what is future. It is like Samson's riddle to the Philistines, " out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness," Judges xiv. 14. But to the mind that hath spiritual discernment, and judgeth...