Judges 14:18 (WEB)
The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, “What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?” He said to them, “If you hadn’t plowed with my heifer, you wouldn’t have found out my riddle.”
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- Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies Fragments from.40Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenæus
“It is to be observed that, after [Samson had committed] fornication, the holy Scripture no longer speaks of the things happily accomplished by him in connection with the formula, “The Spirit of the Lord came upon him.”” — editor's note: Judg. xiv. 6–19.
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