And the men said The incident just described had revealed the corrupt condition of the city. It had been tried by a simple test, and found wanting. Sodom is doomed; but Lot is to be saved.

any besides The deliverance of the man carries with it the deliverance of the household.

son in law, and thy sons, &c. A strange collocation. We should expect the sons and daughters first. Then again, why "son in law" in the singular? LXX has γαμβροί, which is probably a correction; Lat. generum. The proposal of Holzinger to put "son in law" in the previous clause is no improvement. Its prominence would be an additional difficulty.

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