Genesis 19:11 (WEB)
They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
Fathers and councils · 5
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus II.66Book II
“And they smote the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great; so that they wearied themselves to find the door.”” — editor's note: Cf. Gen. xix. 10, 11. [Also Jude 7, “strange (or other) flesh.”]
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Augustine of Hippo
“But that just person was not willing that for the bodies of his guests his soul should be spotted by his own telling of a lie, for which bodies he was willing that the bodies of his daughters by iniquity of others’ lust should be deforced.” — editor's note: Gen. xix. 5–11
Read the whole comment“And Lot said unto them, Oh! not so, my lord: behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight,” etc. What is meant by his saying to them, “Oh! not so, my lord,” if He who was the Lord had already departed, and had sent the angels?” — editor's note: Gen. xix. 1–19
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Tertullian
“Lot, withal, the brother of Abraham, proves that it was for the merits of righteousness, without observance of the law, that he was freed from the conflagration of the Sodomites.” — editor's note: See Gen. xix. 1–29; and comp. 2 Pet. ii. 6–9.
Read the whole comment“And yet that “blindness” then was felt long before “the ends of the world.”” — editor's note: Sæculi. Comp. 1 Cor. x. 11; but the Greek there is, τὰ τέλη τῶν αιώνων. By the “blindness,” Tertullian may refer to Gen. xix. 11.
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Cross-references · 10
Cited together in Against Lying Chapter 34.
Cited together in To His Wife I.5.
Cited together in To His Wife I.5.
Cited together in To His Wife I.5.
Cited together in To His Wife I.5.
Cited together in Against Lying Chapter 34.
Cited together in To His Wife I.5.
Cited together in To His Wife I.5.
Cited together in To His Wife I.5.
Cited together in Against Celsus II.66.