SEV Biblia, Chapter 19:17
Y fue que sacándolos fuera, dijo: Escápate; sobre tu alma; no mires tras ti, ni pares en toda esta llanura; escapa al monte, para que no perezcas.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Genesis 19:17
Verse 17. When they had brought them forth, &c.] Every word here is emphatic, Escape for thy LIFE; thou art in the most imminent danger of perishing; thy life and thy soul are both at stake. Look not behind thee - thou hast but barely time enough to escape from the judgment that is now descending; no lingering, or thou art lost! one look back may prove fatal to thee, and God commands thee to avoid it. Neither stay thou in all the plain, because God will destroy that as well as the city. Escape to the mountain, on which these judgments shall not light, and which God has appointed thee for a place of refuge; lest thou be CONSUMED. It is not an ordinary judgment that is coming; a fire from heaven shall burn up the cities, the plain, and all that remain in the cities and in the plain. Both the beginning and end of this exhortation are addressed to his personal feelings.""Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life;"" and self- preservation is the first law of nature, to which every other consideration is minor and unimportant.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-29 - Lot was good, but there was not one more of the same character in the city. All the people of Sodom were very wicked and vile. Care wa therefore taken for saving Lot and his family. Lot lingered; he trifled. Thus many who are under convictions about their spiritual state, and the necessity of a change, defer that needful work. The salvation of the most righteous men is of God's mercy, not by their ow merit. We are saved by grace. God's power also must be acknowledged in bringing souls out of a sinful state If God had not been merciful to us, our lingering had been our ruin. Lot must flee for his life. He must not hanker after Sodom. Such commands as these are given to thos who, through grace, are delivered out of a sinful state and condition Return not to sin and Satan. Rest not in self and the world. Reac toward Christ and heaven, for that is escaping to the mountain, shor of which we must not stop. Concerning this destruction, observe that it is a revelation of the wrath of God against sin and sinners of all ages. Let us learn from hence the evil of sin, and its hurtful nature it leads to ruin.
Original Hebrew
ויהי 1961 כהוציאם 3318 אתם 853 החוצה 2351 ויאמר 559 המלט 4422 על 5921 נפשׁך 5315 אל 408 תביט 5027 אחריך 310 ואל 408 תעמד 5975 בכל 3605 הככר 3603 ההרה 2022 המלט 4422 פן 6435 תספה׃ 5595
