And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done.
Carrying on the idea of Samson being a type of Christ, do we not see here an emblem of Jesus' triumph over the powers of darkness, when he was led up of the Spirit into the wilderness, to be tempted of the devil? Matthew 4:1.