He said to her, If they only bind me with new ropes with which no work has been done, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.
      III. The arts by which he put her off from time to time, and kept his own counsel a great while. She asked him where his great strength lay, and whether it were possible for him to be bound and afflicted (Judges 16:6; Judges 16:6), pretending that she only desired he would satisfy her curiosity in that one thing, and that she thought it was impossible he should be bound otherwise than by her charms.