Judges 15:3
And Samson answered him: From this day I shall be blameless in what I do against the Philistines: for I will do you evils.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Cui Samson respondit : Ab hac die non erit culpa in me contra Philisthæos : faciam enim vobis mala.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς Σαμψών Ἠθῴωμαι καὶ τὸ ἅπαξ ἀπὸ ἀλλοφύλων, ὅτι ποιῶ ἐγὼ μετ᾽ αὐτῶν πονηρίαν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּ֤אמֶר לָהֶם֙ שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹן נִקֵּ֥יתִי הַפַּ֖עַם מִפְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים כִּֽי עֹשֶׂ֥ה אֲנִ֛י עִמָּ֖ם רָעָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Evils. This is a declaration of war, made by Samson in person, against a whole nation. (Haydock)
He does not wish to engage his countrymen in the quarrel, that they may not be more oppressed. God chose that he should weaken the Philistines by degrees. They had been apprised of the injustice done to Samson, and did not strive to hinder it, so that they all deserved to suffer. (Grotius; Estius; Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.