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Now when he once came with his parents to Timhath, a city of the
Philistines, when there was a great festival, he fell in love with a maid
of that country, and he desired of his parents that they would procure
him the damsel for his wife: but they refused so to do, because she was
not of the stock of Israel; yet because this marriage was of God, who intended
to convert it to the benefit of the Hebrews, he over-persuaded them to
procure her to be espoused to him. And as he was continually coming to
her parents, he met a lion, and though he was naked, he received his onset,
and strangled him with his hands, and cast the wild beast into a woody
piece of ground on the inside of the road.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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