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Adventistische Schriften über: "Samson's riddle and its prophetic interpretation in Judges 14"
Answer
Samson's riddle in Judges 14 arose from his encounter with a lion that he killed by the power of the Spirit of God, and the later discovery of honey in its carcass. This event served God as a “occasion” to act against the Philistines, with Samson's personal desire for a Philistine woman being used as a means to that end. In a prophetic or typological sense, the story of Samson, who acted as a Nazirite by faith, already points from afar to the life and work of Jesus Christ.
Samson's riddle and divine providence
»The honey that he took for himself and gave to his parents became the occasion for a riddle that he presented, according to an Eastern custom, to the “thirty companions” who acted as the “friends of the bridegroom.” The riddle proved too difficult for them. ... The woman's curiosity had from the beginning prompted her to learn the answer from her husband. But now her urgency, accelerated by fear, prevailed. Of course she immediately disclosed the secret to her fellow countrymen, and Samson felt deceived and betrayed by his wife. Yet this was the sought‑after “occasion.” Again, the “spirit of Jehovah came down upon Samson.”«
The prophetic parallel to the Redeemer
»The misunderstanding and ignorance of Samson's motives by his parents inevitably recall a similar resistance in the life of our blessed Lord, as, reverently spoken, this whole story, though “from afar,” foreshadows the story of our great Nazirite.«
Samson's work as a Nazirite through faith
»Whenever Samson consciously subordinated his will and desires to national and divine purposes, he acted as a Nazirite and “by faith”; whenever national and divine purposes were subordinated to his own lusts, he failed and sinned. Thus we continually perceive two elements working side by side: the divine and the human; Jehovah and Samson; the supernatural and the natural.«
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