...garments. And they said unto him, Put forth thy riddle, that we may hear it. 14 And he said unto them, art thou? tell me, I pray thee : is there room in thy f came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days expound the riddle. 15 And it came to pass on...

...have been taken from the mouth of the people. The following proverbs have a popular air: xiv. 14, " Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness;" verse 18, " If ye had not ploughed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle;"...

...understand me nos: the allusion is to Judg. 14: 14. The Philistines could not solve Samson's riddle: 'Out of the eater came forth meat. And out of the strong came forth sweetness.' Puritans helieved that the language of their spiritual experience was foreign...

...him an idea for a riddle, which he poses to thirty Philistine guests at his lengthy wedding feast: "Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness." There is a wager between Samson and the thirty Philistine relatives and friends...

...Frazer and others. And it is true that there are countless examples. There is Samson's neck riddle "Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness" (Judg. 14:14; for representative discussions, see Torcszyner 1924:126-35 and...

...celebration were thirty young Philistine men guests. Samson proposed a riddle unto them. Now the riddle was: "Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness." Samson suggested that in seven days if they could answer his riddle, he would...

...01° Leo Symbol: Alone and weaponless, Samson tears up with his bare hands the lion come to attack him Out of the eater came forth meat and out of the strong came forth weakness.- — Judges 14:14 But for modesty, the native is endowed with all the qualities...

...spirituality is to Samson's riddle, which at intervals throughout the novel Lucas ponders. The formulation "out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness," takes on in the novel a metaphoric meaning beyond its original contextual significance...

...down the Scriptures' sexual implications. For example, Samson's indecipherable lion-and-honey riddle, "Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness" (Judg. 14: 14) is an oral sex double entendre entirely appropriate to the circumstances....

...sulphur burns with scanty flames). 401-2 kill an ox . . . bees: compare the idea behind Samson's riddle, 'Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness', Judges 14. 14 and previous verses. 411 butterflies: for Ovid's 'Ferali . . ....