There is little evidence of his possession of great wisdom, but strong proof of his moral and religious laxity.

He sinned against the laws of Israel's God when he took a Philistine woman, an idolater, to wife; he sinned against the moral law when he visited the harlot at Gaza.

He was wofully weak in character when he yielded to the blandishments of Delilah and wrought his own undoing, as well as that of his people.

The disgraceful slavery into which Herakles fell was not caused by the hero's incontinence or uxoriousness, but a punishment for crime, in that he had in a fit of madness killed his friend Iphitus.

And the three years which he spent as the slave of Omphale were punctuated by larger and better deeds than those of Samson in like situation--bursting the new cords with which the men of Judah had bound him and the green withes and new ropes with which Delilah shackled him.