Judges 13:22

And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.

We shall surely die, because we have seen God - (see the note at Genesis 16:13.) The frequent manifestations of the angel of Yahweh to the worthies of the early Jewish Church had rendered the description of His terrible majesty a current tradition. A popular belief also prevailed that the party to whom He thus revealed Himself would die. In this belief Manoah participated; and he was relieved from the painful apprehension of impending death only by the seasonable and happy suggestion of his wife, that the acceptance of their offerings was a pledge of His gracious and beneficent purpose toward them.