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John Gill's Exposition on Luke 17:28
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot, etc.] When he lived in Sodom, and before, and at the time of the destruction of that city with other neighbouring ones: they did eat, they drank; (see Gill on “<421727>Luke 17:27”), and (<261649>Ezekiel 16:49). This is to be understood of the inhabitants of Sodom, and the other cities that perished with it: they bought, they sold: they traded among themselves, and with their neighbours; and, as it appears from the text referred to, they had no regard to the poor and needy; they made no conscience of defrauding and oppressing them: they planted; vineyards, and fruit trees; living in a very fruitful soil, like the garden of God, (<011310>Genesis 13:10) they builded; houses for themselves and posterity; and thus, as a Jewish writer f537 observes of them, in agreement with our Lord's design in all this, being filled with the increase of the earth, they lived in security, peace, and tranquillity.
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