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<h2>337. SAMSON, A TYPE OF CHRIST</h2>
<p>1. <b>An angel foretold his birth.</b> "Angel&#8230;said&#8230;lo, thou shall conceive, and bear a son" (<a id="fem337-si1" onclick="return mV('Jdg',13,3,4,5);">Jdg 13:3-5</a>). So it was in the case of Christ. "Angel said&#8230;thou shall conceive&#8230;and bring forth a Son" (<a id="fem337-si2" onclick="return mV('Luk',1,30,31);">Luk 1:30-31</a>).</p>
<p>2. <b>He was separated unto God.</b> "No razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb" (<a id="fem337-si3" onclick="return mV('Jdg',13,5);">Jdg 13:5</a>). Even so it was with Christ. "He shall be called a Nazarene" (<a id="fem337-si4" onclick="return mV('Mat',2,23);">Mat 2:23</a>).</p>
<p>3. <b>He acted in the power of the Holy Spirit.</b> "The Spirit of the Lord began to move him" (<a id="fem337-si5" onclick="return mV('Jdg',13,25);">Jdg 13:25</a>). "The Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him" (<a id="fem337-si6" onclick="return mV('Jdg',14,6);">Jdg 14:6</a>; <a id="fem337-si7" onclick="return mV('Jdg',15,14);">Jdg 15:14</a>). The same was true of Christ. "Holy Ghost descended upon Him"; "Jesus, being full of the Holy Ghost&#8230;led by the Spirit"; "returned in the power of the Spirit"; "the Spirit of the Lord is upon Me" (<a id="fem337-si8" onclick="return mV('Luk',3,22);">Luk 3:22</a>; <a id="fem337-si9" onclick="return mV('Luk',4,1,14,18);">Luk 4:1, 14, 18</a>).</p>
<p>4. <b>He was mighty to overcome his enemies.</b> "He found a new jaw-bone of an ass, and put forth his hand and took it and slew a thousand men therewith" (<a id="fem337-si10" onclick="return mV('Jdg',15,15);">Jdg 15:15</a>). As Samson used a dead jaw-bone as the instrument to overcome his enemies, even so Christ, by His own death, has destroyed him that had the power of death, that is the devil (<a id="fem337-si11" onclick="return mV('Hbr',2,14);">Hbr 2:14</a>).</p>
<p>5. <b>He was treated unkindly by his own people.</b> "Her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her (his wife), therefore I gave her to thy companion" (<a id="fem337-si12" onclick="return mV('Jdg',15,2);">Jdg 15:2</a>). As Samson's wife was given to another by her father&#8212;thus they rejected him&#8212;so the Jews, by their sin and unbelief, rejected Christ and gave themselves into the power of Satan, for Christ came to His own, but they received Him not (<a id="fem337-si13" onclick="return mV('Jhn',1,11);">Jhn 1:11</a>).</p>
<p>6. <b>He was misused and mocked.</b> "She began to afflict him&#8230;put out his eyes&#8230;bound him with fetters of brass, and he did grind in the prison house&#8230;&nbsp;he made them sport" (<a id="fem337-si14" onclick="return mV('Jdg',16,19,21,25);">Jdg 16:19, 21, 25</a>). As Samson was ill-used, even so was Christ. He was "despised and rejected of men, a Man of Sorrows, and acquainted with grief" (<a id="fem337-si15" onclick="return mV('Isa',53,3);">Isa 53:3</a>).</p>
<p>7. <b>He destroyed more enemies by his death than he ever did in his life.</b> "So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life" (<a id="fem337-si16" onclick="return mV('Jdg',16,30);">Jdg 16:30</a>). Even so with Christ. By His death He has been the death of death; He has robbed death of its sting, the grave of its terrors, sin of its power, and Satan of his authority.</p>
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