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| Jun 17, 2020 at 9:51 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Feb 21, 2019 at 16:36 | comment | added | ScottS | @Constantthin The "lifelong" ones are questionable. Samson was "from the womb" (Jdg 13:5), and his mother believed it would be "to the day of his death" (v.6), but Samson failed: He touched dead bodies after killing the 30 Philistines and stripping them of their clothing (14:19; violation of Num 6:6), which should have negated "the former days" of his separation (Num 6:9), then the hair cut (Jdg 16:19). Many theologians question whether John the Baptist was really a Nazirite at all (the Bible is not explicit and the only prohibition that matches is not to consume alcohol, Lk 1:15). | |
| Feb 21, 2019 at 11:54 | comment | added | Constantthin | I gave you a +1 for pointing out that the Nazirite vow was a temporary commitment. This is very interesting and needs to be meditated on. There seems to have been two kind of Nazirites; the temporary ones and the lifelong ones. Samson and John the Baptist seem to have belonged to the latter group. And, strangely enough, I can't think of anybody from the Bible that just from time to time practiced Naziritism , but there must have been some? | |
| Feb 20, 2019 at 18:41 | history | answered | ScottS | CC BY-SA 4.0 |