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What the Fathers say

Judges 16:7

Western Saints

Ambrose of Milan

But he, still self-possessed and unshaken, opposed craft to the allurements of the harlot, and told her that if he were bound with withs yet green and not dried, his strength would be like that of other men.

Letter 19 ↗

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. …

Collationes de Septem Donis, Collation 5 ↗