Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 19:4
4. All the people from every quarter Hebrews, from the extremity, that is, of the city . Here we have a picture of the vilest kind of a rabble, debased to the most shameless licentiousness . read more
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Daniel Whedon
Daniel Whedon
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 19:5
5. Bring them out unto us, that we may know them A euphemism, pointing to the unnatural crime of pederasty, an abomination into which the Canaanitish nations were sunken, and for which they were cast out . Leviticus 18:22-25; comp . Judges 19:22-25; Romans 1:27. From this incident this crime against nature has received the name of Sodomy . Comp . Isaiah 3:9. read more
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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 19:1-23
LOT RESCUED BY THE ANGELS, Genesis 19:1-23. In this chapter we have another picture of the life and character of Lot. After his rescue from the eastern kings by Abraham, he went back again to his coveted Sodom. His daughters married men of the city, and his family appear to have become damagingly affected by the vices of the place. Lot himself lost not the uprightness of character developed by his long residence with Abraham, and he was often “vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked.... read more