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The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth, See also: Hebrews 13:2Genesis 18:22Genesis 18:1-5and he said, “See now, my lords, please come into your servant’s house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you can rise up early, and go on your way.” They said, “No, but we will stay in the street all night.” See also: Genesis 18:4Luke 24:28-29Acts 16:15He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. See also: Genesis 18:6-81 Samuel 28:24Judges 6:19But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter. See also: Genesis 13:13Proverbs 4:16Genesis 18:20They called to Lot, and said to him, “Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them.” See also: Judges 19:22Jude 1:7Isaiah 3:9Lot went out to them through the door, and shut the door after himself. See also: Judges 19:23He said, “Please, my brothers, don’t act so wickedly. See also: 1 Samuel 30:23-24Judges 19:23Leviticus 20:13See 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.” See also: Judges 19:24Genesis 19:31-38Genesis 18:5They said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now we will deal worse with you than with them!” They pressed hard on the man Lot, and came near to break the door. See also: Exodus 2:142 Peter 2:7-8Genesis 13:12But the men reached out their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door. They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door. See also: 2 Kings 6:18Acts 13:11Jeremiah 2:36The men said to Lot, “Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whomever you have in the city, bring them out of the place: See also: Genesis 7:12 Peter 2:7Revelation 18:4for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown so great before the LORD that the LORD has sent us to destroy it.” See also: Genesis 18:20Acts 12:23Matthew 13:49-50Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this place, for the LORD will destroy the city!” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking. See also: Numbers 16:21Jeremiah 51:6Numbers 16:26When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city.” See also: Numbers 16:24-27Luke 13:24-25Revelation 18:4But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife’s hand, and his two daughters’ hands, the LORD being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city. See also: Romans 9:15-16Titus 3:5Luke 6:35-36It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!” See also: Matthew 24:16-18Luke 9:62Philippians 3:13-14Lot said to them, “Oh, not so, my lord. See also: Acts 10:14Genesis 32:26Acts 9:13See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can’t escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die. See also: 1 Timothy 1:14-16Deuteronomy 31:17Matthew 8:25-26See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn’t it a little one?), and my soul will live.” See also: Psalms 119:175Proverbs 3:5-7Genesis 19:30He said to him, “Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken. See also: Psalms 145:19Job 42:8-9Psalms 34:15Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. See also: Genesis 13:10Genesis 14:2Deuteronomy 9:14The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar. Then the LORD rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the LORD out of the sky. See also: Deuteronomy 29:23Isaiah 13:19Amos 4:11He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground. See also: Psalms 107:34Genesis 14:3Genesis 13:10But Lot’s wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. See also: Luke 17:31-32Genesis 19:17Hebrews 10:38Abraham went up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD. See also: Habakkuk 2:1Psalms 5:3Hebrews 2:1He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace. See also: Revelation 18:9Revelation 9:2Jude 1:7When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived. See also: Genesis 8:1Genesis 18:23-33Psalms 25:7Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters. See also: Genesis 19:19Genesis 19:17Jeremiah 48:34The firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man on the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth. See also: Deuteronomy 25:5Genesis 4:1Genesis 6:4Come, let’s make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.” See also: Leviticus 18:6-7Genesis 11:3Habakkuk 2:15-16They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she arose. See also: Leviticus 18:6-7Habakkuk 2:15-16Proverbs 20:1It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let’s make him drink wine again tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.” See also: Jeremiah 8:12Jeremiah 3:3Jeremiah 5:3They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went and lay with him. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she got up. See also: 1 Peter 4:71 Corinthians 10:11-12Luke 21:34Thus both of Lot’s daughters were with child by their father. See also: Habakkuk 2:15Judges 1:7Matthew 7:2The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day. See also: Deuteronomy 2:9Ruth 4:10Deuteronomy 23:3The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day. See also: Deuteronomy 2:19Deuteronomy 23:31 Samuel 11:1-15
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Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Genesis 19:1
Ver. 1. Ground. Thus shewing himself a true relation and imitator of Abraham.
↑ 1Genesis 19:2
Ver. 2. My lords. He took them to be men. --- No. They refuse at first, that he may have the merit of pressing them to accept the invitation. H.
↑ 2Genesis 19:4
Ver. 4. Together. The whole city was corrupt; even the children were taught iniquity, as soon as they came to the years of discretion. M.
↑ 4Genesis 19:5
Ver. 5. Know them. They boldly proclaim their infamous design.
↑ 5Genesis 19:7
Ver. 7. This evil, so contrary to the rights of hospitality, and the law of nature.
↑ 7Genesis 19:8
Ver. 8. Known man. They were neglected, while men were inflamed with desires of each other. See Rom. i. H. --- Abuse.
Lot tries by every means to divert them from their purpose; being well assured, that they would have nothing to do with his daughters, who were promised to some of the inhabitants. He endeavours to gain time, hoping perhaps that his guests would escape by some back way, while he is talking to the people. H.
--- Some allow that, under so great a perturbation of mind, he consented to an action which could never be allowed, though it was a less evil. M.
↑ 8Genesis 19:9
Ver. 9. Thither; from whence thou camest, or into the house.
Dost thou pretend to tell us what is wrong? We will treat thee more shameful y. M. While they are beginning to offer violence.
↑ 9Genesis 19:10
Ver. 10. Behold, &c. the angels not only secure Lot, but strike the whole people with blindness, so that they could neither find Lot's door nor their own homes. Indeed, if they had been able to get back into their own houses, it would have been but a small consolation to them; since in a few minutes, the whole city was buried in sulphur and flame. Wisd. xix. 16.
↑ 10Genesis 19:14
Ver. 14. Sons-in-law. Perhaps they also were among the crowd, (v. 4,) and therefore deserved to be abandoned to their incredulity; though, if they would have consented to follow Lot, the angels would have saved them for his sake. --- In jest. So little did they suffer God's judgments to disturb them!
↑ 14Genesis 19:16
Ver. 16. He lingered, intreating the Lord to save the city; and loath, perhaps to lose all his property, for the sake of which he had chosen that abode. --- Spared him, and his wife and two daughters, for his sake. These four were all that were even tolerably just: for we find them all soon giving signs of their weakness, and of the danger to which even the best are exposed by evil communications. H.
↑ 16Genesis 19:17
Ver. 17. Look not back. Flee with all expedition; let no marks of pity for the wretched Sodomites, nor of sorrow for the lose of your property, be seen.
↑ 17Genesis 19:18
Ver. 18. My lord, addressing himself to the angel, who led him and his wife. M.
↑ 18Genesis 19:19
Ver. 19. The mountain above Segor. He is faint-hearted, and does not comply with readiness and exactitude; though, when he had obtained leave to remain in Segor, he still fears, and flees to the mountain, v. 30, (H.) on the south-east of the dead sea. C.
↑ 19Genesis 19:22
Ver. 22. Segor. That is, a little one. Ch. --- In allusion to Lot's words, v. 20. As it was small, fewer sinners would of course be contained in it. God had resolved to spare it, and therefore inspired Lot to pray for its preservation. M. --- Hence we may learn, how great a treasure and safeguard the just man is. H.
↑ 22Genesis 19:23
Ver. 23. Risen. It was morning when he left Sodom; (v. 15.) so this city must not have been very distant. It was before called Bala, or swallowed up, and afterwards Salissa. Theodoret supposes it was destroyed as soon as Lot had left it; and it seems Lot's daughters thought so, since they concluded all men, except their father, had perished.
↑ 23Genesis 19:24
Ver. 24. The Lord rained...from the Lord, in a miraculous manner. Sodom and the other cities did not perish by earthquakes and other natural causes only, but by the divine wrath exerting itself in a visible manner. Here is an insinuation of a plurality of persons in God, as the C. of Sirmich declares, c. 14. --- And Gomorrha, and the other towns which were not so large, nor perhaps so infamous. --- Brimstone and fire; to denote the bad odour and violence of their disorders. M.
↑ 24Genesis 19:25
Ver. 25. All the inhabitants, both the body and soul, (Jude v.
7.): even the infants would probably die in original sin, as their parents were unbelievers, and careless of applying the proper remedies. H. --- The women imitated the men in pride and dissolute morals, so that all deserved to perish. M. --- All things; so that even now the environs are barren, and the lake dark and smoking. T.
↑ 25Genesis 19:26
Ver. 26. And his wife. As a standing memorial to the servants of God to proceed in virtue, and not to look back to vice or its all urements. Ch. --- His, Lot's wife. The two last verses might be within a parenthesis. --- Remember Lot's wife, our Saviour admonishes us. Having begun a good work, let us not leave it imperfect, and lose our reward. Lu. xvii. Mat. xxiv. --- A statue of durable metallic salt, petrified as it were, to be an eternal monument of an incredulous soul. Wisd. x. 7. Some say it still exists. H. --- God may have inflicted this temporal punishment on her, and saved her soul. M. --- She looked back, as if she distrusted the words of the angel; but her fault was venial. T.
↑ 26Genesis 19:29
Ver. 29. Lot. Even he owed his safety to the merits of Abraham.
↑ 29Genesis 19:31
Ver. 31. No man. If this had been true, Lot might have had children by them, without any fault. But they ought to have consulted him. H.
↑ 31Genesis 19:35
Ver. 35. Rose up; being oppressed with grief and wine, which would not excuse him from sin, particularly this second time.
M.
↑ 35Genesis 19:37
Ver. 37. Elder. She first proposes: she is not ashamed to call her child Moab, "from father." The younger is rather more modest, and calls her son Ammon, "my people," not born of the Sodomites. Many reasons might be alleged to extenuate, or even to excuse the conduct of Lot and his daughters, as many of the fathers have done. But the Scripture barely leaves it upon record, without either commendation or blame. H.
↑ 37License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses