Genesis 19:24 (WEB)
Then the LORD rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the LORD out of the sky.
Fathers and councils · 22
Irenaeus of Lyons
“And again, referring to the destruction of the Sodomites, the Scripture says, “Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah fire and brimstone from the Lord out of heaven.”” — editor's note: Gen. xix. 24.
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Tertullian
“A much more ancient testimony we have also in Genesis: “Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.”” — editor's note: Gen. xix. 24.
Read the whole comment“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 it calls your rulers “rulers of Sodom,” and your people the “people of Gomorrha,” when those cities had already long been extinct.” — editor's note: See Gen. xix. 23–29.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“…seeing that Abraham worships Him as Lord, and Moses says, ‘Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven;’ and David in the Psalms, ‘The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit Thou on My right hand;’ and, ‘Thy Throne, O God, is for ever and ever; a sceptre of righteousness…” — editor's note: Gen. xix. 24.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“This Lord, who works together with the Father, wrought with Him also in the case of Sodom, according to the Scripture: And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah fire and brimstone from the Lord out of heaven.” — editor's note: Ib. xix. 24.
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Eusebius of Caesarea
“Moses most clearly proclaims him second Lord after the Father, when he says, “The Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord.”” — editor's note: Gen. xix. 24.
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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.
Read the whole comment“…and Lord of all had not been in heaven when what Moses wrote took place: ‘And the Lord rained upon Sodom fire and brimstone from the Lord out of heaven;’ and again, when it is thus said by David: ‘Lift up your gates, ye rulers; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting gates; and the King of glory shall enter;’ and…” — editor's note: Gen. xix. 24.
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Ambrose of Milan
“The Lord thy God is one God;” moreover, in the same Testament it is written: “The Lord rained from the Lord.”” — editor's note: Gen. xix. 24.
Read the whole comment“Therefore Moses called Him One, and yet also relates that the Lord rained down fire from the Lord.” — editor's note: Gen. xix. 24.
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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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Hilary of Poitiers
“XVI. “If any man does not understand The Lord rained from the Lord to be spoken of the Father and the Son, but says that the Father rained from Himself: let him be anathema.” — editor's note: Ib. xix. 24.
Read the whole comment“…to Lot, Abraham’s brother, was ended, the Scripture says, And the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven; and, after a while, And the Lord visited Sarah as He had said, and did unto Sarah as He had spoken, and Sarah conceived and bare Abraham a son in his old age,…” — editor's note: Ib. xix. 24.
Read the whole comment“For the Lord rained from the Lord; was it not the true Lord from the true Lord?” — editor's note: Gen. xix. 24.
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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“As we find Scripture also saying in another place, “The Lord rained [upon Sodom fire] from the Lord.”” — editor's note: Gen. xix. 24.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…parched by drought; and, when but faintly breathing, to be restored to life and left as a seed to Israel, that we might not become like Sodom and Gomorrah, whose destruction by the rain of fire and brimstone is only more notorious than their wickedness.” — editor's note: Gen. xix. 24.
Read the whole comment““The Lord rained down fire from the Lord;” and “A sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of Thy Kingdom;” and “Which is and was and is to come, the Almighty”—all which are clearly spoken of the Son,…” — editor's note: Gen. xix. 24.
Read the whole comment“I know also a fire which is not cleansing, but avenging; either that fire of Sodom which He pours down on all sinners, mingled with brimstone and storms, or that which is prepared for the Devil and his Angels or that which proceeds from the…” — editor's note: Gen. xix. 24.
Read the whole comment“Whenever I take up his polemical works, I see the fire of Sodom, by which the wicked and rebellious tongues are reduced to ashes, or the tower of Chalane, impiously built, and righteously destroyed.” — editor's note: Gen. xix. 24.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“Also in Genesis: “And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah sulphur, and fire from heaven from the Lord.”” — editor's note: Gen. xix. 24.
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Cross-references · 16
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 127.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.15.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 127.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.15.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 13.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.34.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 127 and 2 other places.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.15.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.15.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.15.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.15.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.15.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.15.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 127.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 127.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 127.