The gaining of personal revenge clearly constitutes the sole motivating factor behind Samson’s ongoing endeavors: “If this is the sort of thing you do, I swear I will be vindicated against you! But thereafter, I quit!” (15:7; Boling’s translation: 234). Samson is running out of control, an addict hoping to quit after indulging one final time. For this escalating exchange of attack and counterattack, revenge and counterrevenge, then, no end lies anywhere in sight [Violence