Holy Scripture

Judges 15:6

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“And the Philistines, incensed by the loss of all their corn in that region, told it to the princes of their land. And they sent men to Timnath, and burnt in the fire the woman who had been faithless to her husband, and her parents and all her house; saying that she had been the cause of this injury and devastation, an…”
Ambrose of Milan, 4th c. — Letter 19: To Vigilius

Source: Septuagint

Original

6And the Philistines said, Who has done these things? and they said, Samson the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife, and given her to one of his friends; and the Philistines went up, and burned her and her father’s house with fire.

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4And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch between two tails, and fastened it.

5And he set fire to the torches, and sent the foxes into the corn of the Philistines; and everything was burned from the threshing floor to the standing corn, and even to the vineyard and olives.

— Judges 15:6 —

7And Samson said to them, Though ye may have dealt thus with her, verily I will be avenged of you, and afterward I will cease.

8And he smote them leg on thigh with a great overthrow; and went down and dwelt in a cave of the rock Etam.

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