Gen. 19:1. "And Lot sat in the gate of Sodom." Where he probably sat exhorting and reproving the people; for the gate of the city seems of old to be the place of resort on all public occasions, not only the place the judges sat to judge the people, but where their teachers sat to instruct and reprov... [ Continue Reading ]
Gen. 19:23, 24, "The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar. Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven." This signified that the terrible destruction of the wicked is at the beginning of the glorious day wherein the Sun of right... [ Continue Reading ]
Gen. 19:24-29. _Concerning the destruction of Sodom and the parts adjacent. _ The very ground of that region, great part of it, seems to have been burnt up. For it was in great measure made up of bitumen, or what the Scripture calls slime, Genesis 14:10, "And the vale of Siddim was full of slime pit... [ Continue Reading ]
Gen. 19:26. _Concerning Lot's wife. _ Revelation Examined with Candour. "The unreasonable delay of Lot's wife was without question occasioned by her solicitude for her children, which she left behind her. The story of _Niobe _ weeping for her children, and being stiffened into stone with grief, is d... [ Continue Reading ]