And she said, The Philistines [be] upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him.
Ver. 20. That the Lord was departed from him.] After which, all miseries came rushing in upon him, as by a sluice: according to that of the prophet, "Woe be unto you when I depart from you": του λογου ησυχαζοντος. When the Godhead withdrew but a while from our Saviour in the garden, and upon the cross, then began his sorrows and sufferings.