Judices 16:29

Nova Vulgata

Et tangens ambas columnas medias, quibus innitebatur domus, obnixusque contra alteram earum dextera et contra alteram laeva

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Et apprehendens ambas columnas, quibus innitebatur domus, alteramque earum dextera, et alteram l�va tenens,

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Et apprehendens ambas columnas quibus innitebatur domus, alteramque earum dextera et alteram l�va tenens,

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on which it was borne up: or, he leaned on them, Judges 16:29

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 16:14 - the Spirit

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars, upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up,.... Some have objected, that a building so large and so capacious as this was could not be supported by two pillars, and those placed in the middle, and so near to each other that Samson could lay hold on them; on which it has been observed, that the architecture of the ancients is little known to us, and they might have curious and ingenious arts of building, now lost; and several authors have taken notice of two Roman theatres built by Curio, that held abundantly more people than this house did, which were supported only by a single pin or hinge, as Pliny y relates; and our Westminster hall, which was built by William Rufus, and is two hundred and seventy feet long, and seventy four broad z, and has a roof the largest in all Europe, is supported without any pillars at all; add to all which, that mention being made of the two middle pillars of this house, supposes that there were others in other parts of it, though these were the main and principal ones, on which the weight of the building chiefly lay. Kimchi observes, that the word signifies to incline or bend, as if Samson made the pillars to bend or bow; but it is a better sense that he laid hold of them:

of the one with his right hand, and the other with his left; and thus he stood with his arms stretched out, as Jesus on the cross, of whom he was a type, as often observed.

y Nat. Hist. l. 36. c. 15. z Rapin's History of England, vol. 1. p. 188.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 16:29. The two middle pillars upon which the house stood — Much learned labour has been lost on the attempt to prove that a building like this might stand on two pillars. But what need of this? There might have been as many pillars here as were in the temple of Diana at Ephesus, and yet the two centre pillars be the key of the building; these being once pulled down, the whole house would necessarily fall.