Genesis 19:2 (WEB)
and he said, “See now, my lords, please come into your servant’s house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you can rise up early, and go on your way.” They said, “No, but we will stay in the street all night.”
Fathers and councils · 6
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.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XVII.25Conference XVII
“Though when the angels had refused to enter the house of Lot at Sodom, saying to him: “We will not enter but will remain in the street,” they were presently forced by his prayers to change their determination, as Scripture subjoins: “And Lot constrained them, and they turned in to him.”” — editor's note: Gen. xix. 2, 3.
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John Chrysostom
“And in the instance of Lot,they that were sent refuse to enter into his house, to make thee know the greatness of that righteous man’s hospitality.” — editor's note: Gen. xix. 2.
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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“For after saying to them in the plural, “Behold, my lords, turn aside into your servant’s house,” etc., yet it is afterwards said, “And the angels laid hold upon his hand, and the hand of his wife, and the hands of his two daughters, because the Lord was merciful unto him.” — editor's note: Gen. xix. 2.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“…Lot saw them, he rose up to meet them, and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground; and he said, Behold, my lords, turn in to your servant’s house.” — editor's note: Ib. xix. 1, 2.
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Cross-references · 4
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.