Now therefore please beware and drink no wine nor strong drink, and don’t eat any unclean thing;
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 4. Thing. Exhortations to observe the law are not unnecessary. Saint Augustine q. 50. Besides the things which common people might take, such as wine, grapes, and so forth were unclean for the Nazarites. The mother of Samson was required to abstain from every species of uncleanness as much as possible, at least while she bore and nursed her child. Calmet.—Abulensis says, she was unquestionably under peculiar restrictions till her delivery. Menochius.—This was a preparation for the child who should abstain from all unclean things, not only for a time, (Numbers 6) but during his whole life, that he might be a more perfect figure of Christ. Worthington.—His dignity was not of choice, nor could he forfeit it by touching any thing unclean, nor by the violent cutting off his hair. As the deliverer of the people, he must often have been obliged to touch dead bodies. Calmet.—Begin. The power of the Philistines was greatly broken by Samson. Calmet. 16:13. Menochius.—But Samuel, Saul, and David had still to contend with them. 1 Kennicott. 7:13. Bible.