u Either one of the Angels : Or the third Perſon, the Lord him- ſ&)f, who having parted from Alraham, after ſome time came to 49, as appears buth by the change of the number, for before this he ſpeaks of them. in the plural namber, but from hence inthe ſingular number, as Yerſe.19: 21, 22: and by the variation of the Phraſe, for the other two tpezk with ſubmiſſion, and as ſervants, Verſe 13+ The Lord hath ſent us, &s. but this ſpeaks with more authority, as 15 evident from Yerſe 21: 22. x(5.e,) As thouloveſt thy life. See Deut: 4: 15: Joſe 233 11: Jer: 17:21, Or, eſcape with thy Life, for the Hebrew particle a// is ſometimes taken for with, as Exoa: 39-333 Levit: 2: 2: and 14: 3i: Dent: 22: 6. So the S-nſe is, ſtand not lingring in hopes to fave thy goods, them thou ſhalt loſe as a puniſhment ofthy Sin and Folly 1n chuſing to dwell with ſo wicked a People, and be thankful that thou haſt thy life given thee for @ prey, as it is expreſſed, Jer: 38: 2., y Like one that grieves either for the Joſs of thy pleaſant H«biration, or vaſt Eſtate, or for thoſe curled Miſcreants ju{tly devoted to this Deſtru&tion. And this command tho given to Loz alone, yet was direfted alſo to his Companions, to whom doubtleſs he imparted it, as is evident both from all the other commands, which equally concern all, and from the following event.
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27 T-And Abraham gat up early in the morning, to the place where he * ftood before the LORD:
28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah; and toward all the land of the plain, and bebeid, and lo, the ſmoak of the countrey went up as the ſmoak of a furnace. : |
29 4 And it came to paſs when God deſtroyed the Cities of the plain, that God remembred Abraham », and ſent Lot out of the midſt of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.
-m Either 1. The promiſe made to Abraham, Gen: 12. 3- Or, 2. The Prayer made by #braham, Gen. 18. who doubtleſs in his Prayers for Sodom would nor forget Lot, rhough his Prayer for him be not there mentioned. And hereby it is infinuated, that Zos though he was a rightzeeus M:n, and ſhould be ſaved eternally, yet deſerved ro periſh temporally wich thoſe wicked People, to whom heaſſociated himſelf meerly for worldly advantages,and ſhould have done ſo, if Araham had not hindred it by his Prayers.
39 © And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him ; for he feared to dwell in Zoar »: and he dwelt in a cave, he
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2 B:caule of the infirmity of my Age, and the fainting of my * Sp rits. Thus he ſheweth an unworthy and unreaſonable diftruſt of God's Power and Goodneſs which he had now experienced and acknowledged ERS
2 Behold, now, this city zs near to flee unto, and. it 35 alittle one a: O let me eſcape thither, ( zs it not a littie one? ) and my ſoul thall jive. |
a Therefore as its Inhabirants, ſo its Sins are fewer, and it will ' nor be an eminent Examp!e of thy Vengeance, as the other p!aces will be. | ;
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b Heb. 1have lift up thy countenance, ( 3.e. ) granted thy requeſt. The manner of the Exprefſion poſſivly may be raken from rh: cus | ſtom of the Eaſtern pa:'s; where Petitioners uſed not to fall upon therr Knees as we do, but to proſtrare themſelves wich their face to , the Ground ; ani the Perſon ro whom they auddreſſ2d themſelves, in token of his favourable acceptance of their Petitions, commanded them to be lifred up.
22. Haſte chee, eſcape thither ; for T cannot do any thing till thou be come thither c: therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
c Becauſe of God's Decree and Promiſe to ſave thee from the gen?ral Deſtruttion.
23 ET The ſun was þ riſen upon the earth d when
Lot entered into Zoar. | d This Phraſe may nore, either the time of the day when this was done; or rather the narure and quality of the day, thatthe Sun appe-rred and ſhone forth that Morning in great Luſtre and Glory : /hich is well norcd as a very conſiderable circumſtance of the Hi- ; ſtory, and a great aggravation of the Ruin, which came when they | leaſt <xpetted ir. F 24 Then * the * LORD rained upon Sodom and
upon Gomorrah e brimſftone and fire f from the LORD g out of Heaven. | |
e And rhe neighbouring Ciries, Aimah and Zcboaim, as appears * from Dent: 29. 23: F-r: 49: 18: Hſ: 11:8. f Brimftone is added co the
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light and apt ro aſcend ; orro increaſe it, 1/a: 30: 33: or to repreſent the noylomnels of their Luſts. g ( 7.e. ) Fiom himſelf: The Noun pur for the Pronoun, as Gen: 1: 29: 2 Chron: 7: 2. But here it is empiatically ſo expreſſed, Either x. To ſignify tha® it proceeded | not from Natural Cauſes, but from the immediate Han4 of God. ' Or, .2, To note the Pluraliry of Perſons in the God-head, God the Son, who now appeared upon the Earth rained from God his Father in Heaven, both concurring in this A&, as,indeed all outwara Attions are common to all the Perſons of the Trinity. 25 Aad he overthrew thoſe cities, andall the plain+, and all tte inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew uponthe ground. F-4
h To wir, where theſe Cities and their Territories lay, . called zhe | Plain of Jordan, Gy: 13: lo. all which thea became, and to this day continues to be a ijthy Lake, called the Dead-Sea, bscauſe no Filh
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26 «4 But his vife looked back i from behind him &, and the + became \ * pillar of ſalt /.