131. Why? Did not the woman Delilah’s love of money deceive Samson, the bravest man of all? Judg. xvi. 6. So he who had torn asunder the roaring lion with his hands; Judg. xiv. 6. who, when bound and handed over to his enemies, alone, without help, burst his bonds and slew a thousand of them; Judg. xv. 14, 15. who broke the cords interwoven with sinews as though they were but the slight threads of a net; he, I say, having laid his head on the woman’s knee, was robbed of the decoration of his victory-bringing hair, that which gave him his might. Money flowed into the lap of the woman, and the favour of God forsook the man. Judg. xvi. 20.