No opportunity presented itself for her to give any explanation upon the subject, which probably would have shown what was done with the hair in sacrifices, funerals, consecrations, or vows, etc.

She once said of Samson: 'His fair hair, which was long and thick, was gathered up on his head in seven tresses, like a helmet, and the ends of these tresses were fastened upon his forehead and temples.

His hair was not in itself the source of his strength, but only as the witness to the vow which he had made to let it grow in God's honour.

The powers which depended upon these seven tresses were the seven gifts of the Holy Ghost.

He must have already broken his vows and lost many graces, when he allowed this sign of being a Nazarene to be cut off.