...the occasion. The feast lasted seven days ; and, if they found it out within the seven days, Samson was to give them thirty suits of clothes, and thirty...forth sweetness." He had killed a lion, and left its carcass ; on returning, soon after, he found a swarm of bees had made use of the skeleton as a hive,...

...propounded a riddle to his companions ; that is, a difficult and obscure sentence for them to solve—" Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness." And they could not expound the riddle, for it was difficult; but this is not the only riddle that the...

...fact for future use. Accordingly, to his "thirty companions," at his nuptials, he proposed the riddle, "Out of the 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...

...and godly sincerity that I helieve they need no other recommendation. Stamford, Dec. 3, 1839. ,1. CP "Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness." (Judges xiv. 14.) We read of one in days of old 'Twas put to Sampson's friends we learn, Who met a...

...fact for future use. Accordingly, to his "thirty companions," at his nuptials, he proposed the riddle, "Out of the 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...

...Saul, when he cut off the skirt of his garment. It is to me like Samson's lion, of which it is written, "Out of the eater, came forth meat, and out of the strong, came forth sweetness." " Death," says a wise man, " is a great teacher." When he extinguishes the sun and the moon from our...

...hardships and sufferings, which often befall them therein. The next was Samson's riddle, Judges, xiv. 14, " Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness." It is everlastingly true, both inwardly and outwardly, to the children of the Most High, who live in...

...Oh, bow often have its friends witnessed the delightful exemplification of the riddle of Samson — " Out of the eater came forth meat ; and out of the strong came forth sweetness." The Baptist Missionary Society has unfurled the standard of the cross on the vast continent of India,...

...pieces with his hands! Did you ever read a riddle in one of the chapters of Judges \ This is it, " Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness ;" and it was made by Samson after he had found the honey in the skeleton of the lion, — as I told...

...connect that with your late painful loss, it brings to my recollection that passage of scripture, ' Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.' Allow me to give you a word of advice on that subject. You have entered upon a duty most important...