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Posted By: Rachel Evans On: 21 Oct 2008 At: 10:12am
Abram Lyle had strong religious beliefs, which is why the Lyle’s Golden Syrup trademark depicts a quotation from the Bible. In the Old Testament (Book of Judges 14:14) Samson was travelling to the land of the Philistines in search of a wife. During the journey he killed a lion, and on his return past the same spot he noticed that a swarm of bees had formed a comb of honey in the carcass. Samson later turned this into a riddle: “Out of the eater came forth meat and out of the strong came forth sweetness”.
However, no-one knows why Abram chose the wording ‘Out of the strong came forth sweetness’. Was he referring to the tin holding the syrup - or the company producing it?
taken from [http://www.lylesgoldensyrup.com/LylesGoldenSyrup/PastPresent/default.htm#LionLogo]
Posted By: MEGAN SHERDLEY age 10 On: 21 Oct 2008 At: 6:48pm
The riddle comes from The book of Judges, chapter 14 and the story is about Samson wanted to met his wife who was a Philistine and his mum and dad did not want him to marry a philistine as they thought they were heathens, they would have prefered one of there own people, but it was the Lord who was leading him there because the Lord wanted them to fight. On the road Samson got strength and he tore the lion apart with his hands. Later on Samson went the same road to marry his wife and stopped and scrapped some honey from the lion as loads of bees were in the lions carcase. They had a wedding feast that lasted 7 days and samson gave the men of the town a challenge. to solve the riddle “Out of the eater came something to eat, out of the strong came something sweet”. the men could not solve the riddleand kept askinghis wife for the answer, she kept saying to Samson you dont loveme or you would tell me. He told her and she told the men. It was “What could be sweeter than honey? What could be strongerthan a lion”.
Samsons reply was “if you had’nt be ploughing with my cow, You would.nt know the answer now”.
Samson lost his wife to his friend, and God made him strong again and he killed thirty mentooktheir clothes and gave them to the men whohad solved the riddle.
Maybe Samson was talking about Jesus when he said the riddle.
The owner of Lyles was called Abram and he was a godly man and thats how it has a scripture from the Bible.