Genesis 19:22 (WEB)
Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
Fathers and councils · 4
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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Jerome
“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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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…
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