Verse 11
11. Smote By an exercise of supernatural power .
Blindness The word סנורים is used only here and 2 Kings 6:18, and in both places denotes a miraculous penal stroke . It seems to denote mental aberration as well as inability to see . Hence the Sodomites recognised not the real nature of the stroke, but wearied themselves to find the door. What a wickedness and perversity is here displayed! “That the old and young should come; that they should come from every quarter of the city; that they assault the house, notwithstanding the sacred rights of guests; that they so shamelessly avow their pederastic purpose; that they will not even be appeased by Lot, to whom they once owed their salvation, (chap. 14,) and that they did not cease to grope for the door after they were stricken with blindness; this is the complete portraiture of a people ripe for the fiery judgment.” Lange.
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