2 Peter 2:8

for that righteous man Literally, the righteous man. We note the use of the term in this half-generic, half-individual, way as analogous to that of James 5:6.

vexed his righteous soul Literally, tortured, as in Mark 5:7; Mark 6:48. It would have seemed scarcely necessary to point out that the words refer to the pain suffered by a man of sensitive moral nature at the sight and report of flagrant evil (comp. Ezekiel's language (Ezekiel 9:4) as to those "that sigh and that cry" for the abominations done in Jerusalem) had not some patristic interpreters of authority (Theophylact and Œcumenius) seen in them a description of the self-inflicted ascetic discipline by which Lot maintained his purity. It may be noted that the "seeing" is peculiar to St Peter.