Genesis 19:20 (WEB)
See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn’t it a little one?), and my soul will live.”
Fathers and councils · 8
Jerome
“One city out of the five,Zoar, was saved, and a place which lay under the same sentence as Sodom, Gomorrha, Admah, and Zeboiim, was preserved by the prayers of a holy man.” — editor's note: Gen. xix. 18–21.
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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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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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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Augustine of Hippo
“To the end, a psalm of David himself.” — editor's note: [It has been most aptly supposed that this Psalm is based on Lot’s escape to the mountain. Gen. xix. 20. The imagery of the Psalm strikingly corresponds with…
Read the whole comment“For we find nowhere in the Scriptures that the Father was sent.” — editor's note: [It is difficult to determine the details of this theophany, beyond all doubt: namely, whether the “Jehovah” who “went his way as soon as he had left communing…
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Ambrose of Milan
“Lot also, his nephew, who was near to him not only in relationship but also in virtue, on account of his readiness to show hospitality, turned aside the punishment of Sodom from himself and his family.” — editor's note: Gen. xix. 20.
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Gregory the Great
“Is it not a little one, and my soul shall live in it (Gen. xix. 20)?” — the author cites it
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Cross-references · 9
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Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.21.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.21.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.21.
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1 Corinthians 10:16 takes up the words of Genesis 19:20 (8 words in common).