Note AH — Chapter XIII · SENTIMENTAL LOVE

If Samson’s love for Delilah would have been of the sentimental kind and not mere infatuation, his love would have been turned into contempt and resentment, long before his betrayal, for her, who, he must have seen, was trying to elicit the secret of his strength for some sinister purpose. But being of a sensual nature, he was betrayed by two women whom he thought he loved but with whom he was only deeply infatuated.