...his " thirty companions," at his nuptials, he proposed the riddle, "Out of the * Judges xiii. 1 - 25. eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness," laying a wager with them, that it would foil their ingenuity. Finding themselves perplexed for the...

...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 of the bride's family:...

...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 give them thirty sheets...

...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 required...

...staging a riddle party for the thirty Philistine guests, and posing this inscrutable riddle: "Out of eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. "The hero's opponents tricked the answer out of his bride: He ate honey out of a honeycomb in the carcass...

...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 . . . papilione' (funereal butterfly)....

...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. As Old Testament...

...in the Book of Judges, in which the biblical hero Samson challenges the Philistines with the riddle "Out of the eater came forth meat. And out of the strong came forth sweetness." (What is it?) The answer to Samson's riddle, as betrayed to the Philistines by his unfaithful bride,...

...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 in the Samson...

...built into the smallscale ones. 2 Puzzling Language RIDDLES, ANAGRAMS, AND OTHER VERBAL PERPLEXITIES "Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness." ... If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle. —Judges (14: 14, 18) Asi...