The Church Fathers on this verse

Judges 14:17Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers

So she wept before him the seven days of the feast: and, at length, on the seventh day, as she was troublesome to him, he expounded it. And she immediately told her countrymen.

Douay-Rheims

וַתֵּ֤בְךְּ עָלָיו֙ שִׁבְעַ֣ת הַיָּמִ֔ים אֲשֶׁר־הָיָ֥ה לָהֶ֖ם הַמִּשְׁתֶּ֑ה וַיְהִ֣י ׀ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִ֗י וַיַּגֶּד־לָהּ֙ כִּ֣י הֱצִיקַ֔תְהוּ וַתַּגֵּ֥ד הַחִידָ֖ה לִבְנֵ֥י עַמָּֽהּ׃

Hebrew (Masoretic text)

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Ambrose of Milan

4th centuryChurch Father

The once indomitable spirit of Samson succumbed to the persuasion of his wife. In a moment of vulnerability, he disclosed the solution to the riddle to her on the seventh day, the final day for fulfilling the pact, and she shared it with her people.

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