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But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
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The Danger of a Divided Heart
Commentators explain that Lot's wife looking back was not a simple, curious glance but a sign of a deeper spiritual problem. John Calvin suggests it stemmed from "incredulity" and a longing for the sinful world she was leaving. Her action serves as a powerful warning against ingratitude and having a heart that still desires what God has called His people to flee from.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
גשׁ־ < הלאה (gesh - hāl'âh), meaning “approach to a distant point,” or “stand back.”
סנורים (san'evērı̂ym
19th Century
Anglican
His wife looked back from behind him. — In Eastern countries, it is still the rule for the wife to walk behind her husban…
Baptist
For I cannot do anything until you have come there. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot e…
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16th Century
Protestant
But his wife looked back. Moses here records the remarkable judgment of God, by which Lot's wife was transformed into a statue of salt. Bu…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
But his wife looked back from behind him That is, the wife of Lot, whose name the Jewish writers F24 say was Adith, or a…
Lot was good, but there was no one else of the same character in the city. All the people of Sodom were very wicked and vile. Therefore, care was t…
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