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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Ambrose of Milan
The third time he disclosed part of the secret, and now drawing nearer to his fall, told her that, if the seven locks of his head were unfastened and woven to about a cubit's length, his strength would depart from him. But herein also he deluded those who were plotting against his life.
Bonaventure
It is said that Samson, according to the instruction of the Angel, did not permit a razor to come upon his head; but his hair grew, and he became the strongest of men. It was a wondrous thing that with his hair he was strong, and without hair he became weak. Delilah the harlot deceived him: she asked him where his strength lay. Four times she asked him, and the fourth time he told her the truth, but the first three times he concealed the truth from her. …
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