Here is, 1. Samson’s birth. The woman that had been long barren bore a son, according to the promise; for no word of God shall fall to the ground. Hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? 2. His name, Samson , has been derived by some, from Shemesh, the sun , turned into a diminutive, sol exiguus — the sun in miniature , perhaps because, being born like Moses to be a deliverer, he was like h...