Genesis 19:31 (WEB)
The firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man on the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth.
Fathers and councils · 5
Irenaeus of Lyons
“…enter in unto us after the manner of all the earth: come, let us make our father drunk with wine, and let us lie with him, and raise up seed from our father.”” — editor's note: Gen. xix. 31, 32.
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Jerome
“Still his error was a grave one, for it made him the father of Moab and Ammon, Israel’s enemies, of whom it is said: “Even to the fourteenth generation they shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord forever.”” — editor's note: Gen. xix. 30–38.
Read the whole comment“Lot in a fit of intoxication unwittingly adds incest to incontinence, and wine overcomes the man whom Sodom failed to conquer.” — editor's note: Gen. xix. 30–38.
Read the whole comment“She called to mind the cave in which Lot found refuge, and with tears in her eyes warned the virgins her companions to beware of “wine wherein is excess;” for it was to this that the Moabites and Ammonites owe their origin.” — editor's note: Gen. xix. 30–38.
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Tertullian
“That done, you will condone incests, too, for Lot’s sake; and fornications combined with incest, for Judah’s sake; and base marriages with prostitutes, for Hosea’s sake; and not only the frequent repetition of…” — editor's note: See Gen. xix. 30–38.
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Cross-references · 7
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.31.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.31.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.31.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.31.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.31.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.31.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.31.