This verse clearly reveals the character of Samson. The text’s emphasis on “seeing” stresses that Samson is a man dominated by his senses, not logic. He follows his sensual instincts, instincts that find foreign women more intriguing than those of Israel. These carnal proclivities overwhelm his perception of matters that any thinking man would know better. Samson’s personality seems to be a degeneration of the other out-group judges (see the Introduction to Judges, pp. 47–48).47 “Gideon is ruled by logic, Jephthah by uninformed belief, and Samson by lust, which can—and does in Samson’s
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