This story has always been intriguing for me, for a number of reasons, one being all the hope that is heaped on Samson. I was intrigued enough by the Nazarite vow to follow it while I was pregnant with my son... and I it's kind of funny learning about the "Sun/Son" meaning, because I often wrote about my "Sun." But the warning of heaping up all these expectations on a son of man to be a savior has always unsettled me. It's also of interest to me that unlike Rebecca, who is autonomous, and has a name in her story, the men in her family didn't listen to her / she never told that she knew that one of them WOULD be a hero. Whereas this nameless woman got her husband involved right away and her husband bought in to Samson being a hero right away. And so Samson was raised with all these expectations. Samson always struck me as unlikeable, a little full of himself. Hubris does him in, even though there is a slight redemption.
Looks like we’re in for an adventure! Sadly, Samson’s mother (to whom an Angel of the Lord appeared - twice!), like Jephthah’s daughter, remain nameless.
This story has always been intriguing for me, for a number of reasons, one being all the hope that is heaped on Samson. I was intrigued enough by the Nazarite vow to follow it while I was pregnant with my son... and I it's kind of funny learning about the "Sun/Son" meaning, because I often wrote about my "Sun." But the warning of heaping up all these expectations on a son of man to be a savior has always unsettled me. It's also of interest to me that unlike Rebecca, who is autonomous, and has a name in her story, the men in her family didn't listen to her / she never told that she knew that one of them WOULD be a hero. Whereas this nameless woman got her husband involved right away and her husband bought in to Samson being a hero right away. And so Samson was raised with all these expectations. Samson always struck me as unlikeable, a little full of himself. Hubris does him in, even though there is a slight redemption.
Looks like we’re in for an adventure! Sadly, Samson’s mother (to whom an Angel of the Lord appeared - twice!), like Jephthah’s daughter, remain nameless.