...in plaintive notes I sing, Blest be the sorrow and kind the storm that drives me nearer home. Thus out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. This is truly a riddle which none of the ancient or modern philosophers ever understood. Now in all...

...covered with corn, they shout and sing for joy ; and when, at such seasons, we can remember that " out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness," we are sure we understand the riddle, and you know such shall have the reward. Tell your friend, then,...

...sweets where the other laborers have no such end in view. Thus he may solve Samson's riddle, — " Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness." How severe is the retribution visited on the man who gives up his mind to others, and deprives himself...

...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 Porter 1962); there is...

...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:...

...preliminary 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...

...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...

...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)....

...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,...