...hands and finds a swarm of bees and their honey in the carcass, from which he generated the riddle 'Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.'40 The tradition was handed on to the Greeks, who adopted apis as the word for bee, and...

...But the tradition of riddling is very old and popular in folklore. Remember Samson's famous riddle: "Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness"? Recall Oedipus' contest with the Sphinx who asks this riddle: "At dawn it creeps on four legs. At noon...

...propounded from biblical days. when Samson, in Judges XIV: 14, asked the Philistines to solve the riddle: 'Out of the eater came forth meat and out of the strong came forth sweetness', right up to modern times with such puzzle masters as Martin Gardner and the 'king of word play,1 the...

...garments. And they said unto him, Put forth thy riddle, that we may hear it. 14 And he said unto them, Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days expound the riddle. 15 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that...

...inhumanity humanity! This surpasses even the riddle which Samson proposed to his boon companions : — ' Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness." Out of the inhuman came forth humanity ! Men do not gather gmpea of thorns, nor figs of thistles,"...

...garments... And they said unto him, Put forth thy riddle, that we may hear it. And he said unto them, Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days expound the riddle. And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they...

...give me the thirty suits of clothing." "Let us hear your riddle," they said. This was Samson's riddle: "Out of the eater came forth meat, And out of the strong came forth sweetness." They could not find the answer, though they tried to find it all that day and the two days that followed....

...righteous God, because you are humble and you listen to my words. You are a wise God and you listen to me. Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. Chapter 9 WHERE? Struggles within Where, Lord, is Faith on Earth? Where is Holiness? People all over...

...now the people of Christ 7. Nor is the riddle without mystery, which he set forth to his companions: "Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness." ' And there was a mystery up to the point of the three days in which its answer was sought in vain,...