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John Gill's Exposition on Judges 15:14
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And when he came unto Lehi, etc.] The place which was afterwards so called, from what happened there at this time, and where the Philistines were spread, (<071509>Judges 15:9) this, according to Bunting f314, was six miles from Etam: the Philistines shouted against him: for joy that they had got him into their hands, and in the circumstances he was, being bound, so that they had nothing to fear from him: and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him: as it at times did, and had done before; the Targum is, “the Spirit of might from the Lord,” which gave him courage and resolution of mind, and great strength of body, even while he was speaking, as a token of the wonders God more than he had at other times: and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire; as easily parted as the flax when fire takes it, which is consumed at once: and his bonds loosed off from his hands; by which it appears that both arms and hands were bound with the cords; his arms were pinioned close to his body, as well as his hands were tied together; and these, as in the original, “melted away” f315, like wax before the fire, or snow before the sun, so easily were these bands separated from him; this may be an emblem of Christ’s loosing himself from the cords of death, (<440224>Acts 2:24).
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