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Likewise, even as it happened in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;
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The Danger of Normalcy
Commentators explain that the activities listed—eating, drinking, buying, selling—are not sinful in themselves. The danger, as seen in Lot's day, is becoming so absorbed in the routines of life that one develops a false sense of security, completely unprepared for God's sudden intervention. This illustrates how judgment can come when life seems most normal.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
They did eat, etc. They were busy with the affairs of this life, as if nothing were about to happen.
The same day, etc. Se…
Note the same sharp contrast between the imperfects here (ate ησθιον,
drank επινον,
bought …
19th Century
Anglican
Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot.—The illustration does not occur in the otherwise parallel passage of Matthew …
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Baptist
Remember Lot's wife.
Jesus’ references to Noah and Lot serve to illustrate the suddenness of the revelation of the Son of Man. The words “eating, drinking,” etc., descr…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot When he lived in Sodom, and before, and at the time of the destruction of…
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