John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 19:18
And Lot said unto them ,.... Supposing three present, not observing that the two angels had left him that had brought him thither; though it is but to one of them he addresses himself, even to him who had bid him make the best of his way to the mountain, as appears by what follows: oh, not so, my Lord ; that is, let me not be obliged to go so far as to the mountain; though R. Samuel takes it to be an assent, and interprets the phrase of his being willing: but this does not agree with... read more
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 19:17
And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad ,.... Into the fields of Sodom, or the suburbs of it: that he said, escape for thy life ; not one of the two men or angels that had been with him all the night past, for they had now left him, and were gone back to the city: but Jehovah the Son of God, who had been communing with Abraham, and now came to Sodom, and appeared to Lot, just at the time the two angels left him, and bid him escape with all haste, if he had any regard... read more