Genesis 19:8 (WEB)
See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them what seems good to you. Only don’t do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof.”
Fathers and councils · 6
Augustine of Hippo
“For he said, “I have two daughters which have not known man; I will bring them out to you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do ye no wrong, for that they have come under covering of my roof.”” — editor's note: Gen. xix. 8
Read the whole comment“But that just person was not willing that for the bodies of his guests his soul should be spotted by his own telling of a lie, for which bodies he was willing that the bodies of his daughters by iniquity of others’ lust should be deforced.” — editor's note: Gen. xix. 5–11
Read the whole comment“Now if Lot, being so righteous a man that he was meet to entertain even Angels, offered his daughters to the lust of the Sodomites, to the intent, that the bodies of women…” — editor's note: Gen. xix. 8
Read the whole comment“And Lot said unto them, Oh! not so, my lord: behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight,” etc. What is meant by his saying to them, “Oh! not so, my lord,” if He who was the Lord had already departed, and had sent the angels?” — editor's note: Gen. xix. 1–19
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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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John Chrysostom
“It being the way of the ancients for the most part to keep their espoused wives in their house:in those parts, at least, where one may see the same practised even now.” — editor's note: Gen. xix. 8, 14.
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Cross-references · 3
Cited together in Against Lying Chapter 34.
Cited together in Against Lying Chapter 20.
Cited together in Against Lying Chapter 34.