Despite Samson's defeat and shame, Samson predicts that God will "arise and his great name assert" by making Dagon receive "Such a discomfit, as shall quite despoil him / Of all these boasted Trophies won on me / And with confusion blank his Worshippers" (467-71). This prediction is interesting because ?
Correct answer: C. Samson doesn't know he himself will fulfill the prediction.
- A. the prediction is never fulfilled.
- B. the prophet Enoch had made the same prediction centuries earlier.
- C. Samson doesn't know he himself will fulfill the prediction.
- D. the prediction is finally fulfilled much later when Jesus defeats Dagon
Explanation
Samson unknowingly becomes the instrument of the prediction when he brings down the temple of Dagon, killing himself and destroying the idol's worshippers. His prophecy is therefore fulfilled by his own final act.
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