John Gill's Exposition on Genesis 19:13

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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For we will destroy this place, etc.] Or “we are destroying it” f1142, are about to do it, and will quickly and immediately do it: because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the Lord; the cry of the sins of the inhabitants of it, which were many, and openly, and daringly committed, and reached to heaven, and called for immediate vengeance and punishment: and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it; by which they discovered themselves to be angels, and what their business was, to destroy Sodom; and which confutes the notion of the Jews, that they were sent on different errands; whereas it is clear from hence, these two were sent to do one and the same thing; (see Gill on “<011802>Genesis 18:2”).

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