...bees had made a hive of it. He therefore proposed this riddle to thirty youths at his bridal feast : Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. 6. The answer to the riddle was betrayed to the young men by the wife of Samson, to whom he had imparted...

...unpleasant to sense, without regard to what is future. It is like Samson's riddle to the Philistines, " out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness," Judges xiv. 14. But to the mind that hath spiritual discernment, and judgeth of good and evil, as things...

...striking figures; — that truth, which was the subject of all the Old Testament mysteries or figures : ' Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.' The subject, and the language in which it was couched, would have been at once understood by his companions,...

...earthly Sovereign. The signal failure of our adversaries' schemes reminded me of Samson's enigma " Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness." I must not omit to mention that while I was in London I stayed tho whole time at the house of my Cousin...

...swarming, will form their city in the hollow of a tree, or other cavity. Thus the scriptural riddle, " Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness" (Judges, chapter xiv.), may be solved by supposing that the carcass of the lion had become dried up,...

...garments. And they said И unto him, I'nr forth thy riddle, that we may hear it. And he said unto them, rought a sword before the king. And the King said, Divide the living child in 15 And they could not in three days expound the riddle. And it came to pass on the seventh day, that...

...as he would tear a kid, when he turned aside to see it, behold a swarm of bees and honey in it ! " Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness." Out of grief, misfortune, bereavement, the poet brings gladness, profit, consolation. There is no romance,...

...and thirty change of garments." On being requested to put forth the riddle, he announced it thus : " Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness." Three days passed away, and no one was yet able to furnish the solution. The means which were taken...

...strengthened by the repast. What a power there is in such a soul ! Truly he might say with Sampson of old, "Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness." There he lay, under that log, for three days ; patient and surgeon, sick man, hunter, cook, and nurse,...

...bees had made a hive of it. He therefore proposed this riddle to thirty youths at his bridal feast : Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. 6. The answer to the riddle was betrayed to the young men by the wife of Samson, to whom he had imparted...