Samson said to them, "Since you act like this, I will surely take revenge on you, but after that I will quit."Another case where I have to say that I see a personality split in someone God has chosen. Here we have Samson taking revenge on those who took revenge on his sorta-wife, who are taking revenge for Samson's taking revenge on his sorta-father-in-law. Confused yet?
I can understand the series of reprisals, even if I don't agree with them. That's how most people live their lives, repaying wrong for wrong, and it tends to escalate. I try not to do that sort of thing, but I do understand it. However, Samson's saying that after this he will stop does confuse me. Given that the cycle did continue after this, what is he stopping? He kills those who killed his wife, so where's the stop? Is it that he stopped from going on to kill every Philistine? Did he only kill some unidentified group, but not the whole village? Where is the supposed stop?
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