[Milton-L] Samson as suicide bomber

[James Rovira]

Nancy -- you can't really surmise a connection between Samson and
Christ via lexical similarities between "Narazene" and "Nazirite" as
obvious to Milton's audience from a single quotation in MH.  If it
were commonplace, I'd expect it to show up elsewhere -- do you know of
other sources that do the same?  Lexical similarities makes the
conflation of the two quite easy.  From what I understand it's
doubtful that the town even existed as a Hebrew settlement at the time
of the writing of the books of Moses.

Jim R

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Nancy Charlton
<ncharlton2009 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I would surmise that this was a received view and had been so for
> a long time, so that the implication would have been obvious to his
> contemporary readers (ooops, that can of worms again!)