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done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me,
so have I done unto them.

“And they said unto him, We are come down to bind
thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines.
And Samson said unto them, Swear unto me, that ye will not
fall upon me yourselves. And they spake unto him saying,
No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their
hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him
with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock. And
when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him:
and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and the
cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt
with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands. And he
found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and
took it and slew a thousand men therewith.”

After this we have the record of this mighty Nazarite
bearing away the gates of ancient Gaza, so proving to his
foes how utterly impossible it was for them to harm him. °

And indeed they could not harm him. They waited
all night, resolved to kill him at the dawn of day. And
when the day dawned they found not only that Samson
had gone, but that he had taken the gates of the city with
him.

These were wonderful deeds, you will say. Perhaps you
will think they are almost too wonderful to be believed.
May it not be that we have perhaps exaggerated them a
little in our own minds, without knowing it? It is not our
purpose to explain all these wonderful ‘stories, if even we had
time. But if these particular stories about Samson over-tax
your belief, take the trouble of reading carefully what Dr.
Cunningham Geikie says about them in his most valuable
book called “Hours With the Bible.” And when you geta