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Genesis 19:36

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Genesis 19:36 (WEB)

Thus both of Lot’s daughters were with child by their father.

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Augustine of Hippo

  • ““Moab,” “from the father;” which in a bad sense has no better explanation, than by considering it so connected with the actual history, that Lot, a father, by the illicit intercourse procured by his daughter, begat him; since it was from that very circumstance he was so named.” — editor's note: Gen. xix. 36, 37.

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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.

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  • “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.

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  • “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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