Samson, Delilah, morning, evening, blindness: some typological considerations

September 28, 2026 Mark Brians

*p/c Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr in Cecil B. DeMille's* Samson and Delilah (1949), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27611785

Samson is a Nazirite: he is a holy warrior, divinely called upon to a lived vow and a consecrated life before the Lord (Jdg 13:5; cf. Num. 6:1-21). He is also a Bridegroom, riddle-maker, trickster, and mighty man of valor.

His name comes from the Hebrew word for sun, shamash. Like the Sun he is a little ruler in Israel (cf. Gen 1:17). He is brights rising star of redemption in Israel.

His fall is not merely one more event in a long sequence of degeneracies. It is an apocalyptic event, the death of the Sun…

Creation, Annunciation, Pentecost: A triptych of the Holy Ghost

June 2, 2025 Mark Brians

Here is the sketch of an altarpiece, a Triptych if you will, I’d create if I was the master of a medieval artists’ guild. It is also a theological reflection on Pentecost… after all: all art is a theological reflection, for better or for worse.

Pannel 1. ‘Over the waters of the Deep’

The Spirit, painted in bright lazurite chiaroscuro and gold-white against otherwise total darkness…

There are no donut trees in the Garden of Eden

February 19, 2024 Mark Brians

“What does he mean that there are no donut trees in the Garden of Eden?”

Simply, it means just that. There are no donut trees in the Garden of Eden, just as there will be no bourbon-bushes in heaven, nor jewelry-shrubs in the Resurrection. It points to the fact that God created a world with a potential for further creation. It points further to the fact that when God created Adam and Eve, He created them in His Image, and that a part of that Image is being a little creator —with a lower case “c”— like Him.

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