And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?
The thirst of Jesus, on the cross, was no doubt peculiarly interesting. Samson's was from fatigue, and bodily necessity. Jesus' thirst seems to have been for the salvation of souls, for He had said in the evening before, that he would drink no more of the fruit of the vine until the day he should drink it new in his Father's kingdom. Luke 22:18. There is somewhat highly instructive in this prayer of Samson's, in pleading past mercies, as the best argument for present. The Writer and Reader, may both learn from it, the success which followed, in God's gracious answer, that we take the most effectual method to find the Lord merciful in what is to come, when we give him glory for what he hath done before.