Genesis 19:21 (WEB)
He said to him, “Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.
Fathers and councils · 7
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
“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…
Read the whole comment“…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 makes it much more credible that both Abraham in the three men and Lot in the two recognized the Lord, addressing Him in the singular number, even…” — editor's note: Gen. xix. 21.
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Gregory the Great
“Whence it is also rightly said by the Angel to the same Lot, See I have accepted thy prayers concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city for the which thou hast spoken (v. 21).” — the author cites it
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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.