Delilah contemporaries and that Micah lived during the time of Othniel. Most Christian commentary on Delilah condemns her. Saint Ambrose represents Delilah as a Philistine prostitute and declares that "men should avoid marriage with those outside the faith, lest, instead of love of one's spouse, there be treachery." Marbodius of Rennes uses the examples of Delilah, Eve, Lot's daughters, Herodias, Clytemnestra, and Procne to illustrate that women are a "pleasant evil, at once a honeycomb and a poison". Christian commentators have viewed Samson as a type of Jesus Christ, based on similarities between Samson's story and the life of Jesus as
Catocala delilah Catocala delilah The Delilah Underwing ("Catocala delilah") is an Erebidae species. It is found in the southern and midwestern United States, from Ohio south to Florida and west to Texas and Oklahoma. The wingspan is 60–65 mm. The forewings are grayish-brown above, with a clearly marked irregular black line running from the leading to the trailing edge both inwards and outwards of each wing's center. The upperside of the hindwings is mainly yellowish-orange, with a few dark hairs at the base and a blackish pattern. The latter usually forms two roughly concentric bands, an inner one curving through the mid-wing