Genesis 19:17 (WEB)
It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!”
Fathers and councils · 12
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus IV.45Book IV
“…was escaping thence, when they said: “Look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the surrounding district; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed;” nor what is intended by Lot and his wife, who became a pillar of salt because she turned back; nor by his daughters intoxicating their father, that they might…” — editor's note: Gen. xix. 17.
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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“For this (retrospection) He had been against their making, whom He had rescued out of Sodom.” — editor's note: Gen. xix. 17.
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Justin Martyr
“And the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulphur and fire from the Lord out of heaven; and He overthrew these cities, and all the neighbourhood.’ ” And after another pause I added: “And now have you not perceived, my friends, that one of the three, who is both God and Lord, and ministers to Him who is in…” — editor's note: Gen. xix. 16–25.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“…Meletius in exile, and Euzoius the champion of heresy established as bishop in his place, they remembered the words spoken to Lot, “Escape for thy life”; and further the law of the gospel which plainly ordains “if thy right eye offend thee pluck it out and cast it from thee.”” — editor's note: Gen. xix. 17
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Jerome
““Look not behind thee,” he says, “neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain lest thou be consumed.”” — editor's note: Gen. xix. 17.
Read the whole comment“So of old Lot desired to rescue his wife as well as his two daughters, and refusing to leave blazing Sodom and Gomorrah until he was himself half-on-fire, tried to lead forth one who was tied and bound by her past sins.” — editor's note: Gen. xix. 15–26.
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Basil the Great
“In the midst of a disobedient and gainsaying people I have been taught to hear the words “Save thy own soul.”” — editor's note: Gen. xix. 17, lxx.
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Augustine of Hippo
“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
Read the whole comment“And Lot said unto them, I pray thee, Lord, since thy servant hath found grace in thy sight,” etc. And then after these words the Lord also answered him in the singular, although He was in two angels, saying, “See, I have accepted thy face,” etc. This…” — editor's note: Gen. xix. 16–19.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“Let us sow in tears, that we may reap in joy, let us show ourselves men of Nineveh, not of Sodom.” — editor's note: Gen. xix. 17, 23; Jonah iii. 5.
Read the whole comment“…with our loins girded, and our shoes on our feet, and leaning on staves like old men; with haste, that we fall not into that fault which was forbidden to Lot by the commandment, that we look not around, nor stay in all that neighbourhood, but that we escape to the mountain, that we be not overtaken by the strange…” — editor's note: Gen. xix. 17.
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Cross-references · 12
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History II.27.
Cited together in Letters Letter 217.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History II.27.
Cited together in Letters Letter 217.
Cited together in Letters Letter 217.
Cited together in Letters Letter 217.
Cited together in Letters Letter 217.
Cited together in Letters Letter 217.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.29.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.29.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.29.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.29.