Isaac of Nineveh, on Judg 16:4

“After this he loved a woman, who dwelt in the valley of Sorec, and she was called Dalila.”

“Why was the mighty man Samson rejected by God, he who was set apart and consecrated to God while still in the womb; whose birth was announced by an angel, like John, the son of Zacharias; who was granted great power and worked great wonders [and who by the supernatural strength which God poured into his body smote a thousand men with the jawbone of an ass and became a saviour and judge unto Israel]? Was it not because he defiled his holy members by union with a harlot? For this reason God departed from him and surrendered him to his enemies.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.