[Milton-L] Reading Samson Agonistes

[Carrol Cox]

James Rovira wrote:
> 
> 
  His manner of delivering Israel from
> the Philistines was not a moral failing (at least on his own terms),
> as this act was in accordance with Jewish law (see the terms of the
> covenant in Deut. 27).
> 
> I think killing all the Philistine nobility and other leadership
> probably did qualify for beginning the deliverance of Israel --
> because the terms of the Mosaic covenant have to do primarily with
> God's blessing on their land and with maintaining sovereignty over
> it-- and because it would be very difficult for the Philistines to
> maintain an occupation of Israel without a government.

Just a footnote: the question of who was the invader, who the invaded,
could be debated!

Carrol