Samson
historical figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
in the texts
Stromata
Samson, of the tribe of Dan, judge who conquered the Philistines and ruled twenty years.
And when they had turned back, Samson, of the tribe of Dan, leads them, having conquered the foreigners in war.
Why, then, should I still set out testimonies of faith, gathering them from the history among us?
And yet to Samson too the power was given in his hairs, that he might understand that the rejected arts of life — those that lie and remain on the ground after the soul's departure — were not given without the divine power.
The Rights of War and Peace
Biblical judge demanded as a criminal by the Philistines.
— And the Philistines demanded of the Hebrews the surrender of Samson, as a criminal, Jud.