Genesis 19:34 (WEB)
It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let’s make him drink wine again tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.”
Fathers and councils · 4
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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