SEV Biblia, Chapter 17:32
Acordaos de la mujer de Lot.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Luke 17:32
Verse 32. Remember Lot's wife.] Relinquish every thing, rather than lose your souls. She looked back, Gen. xix. 26; probably she turned back also to carry some of her goods away-for so much the preceding verse seems to intimate, and became a monument of the Divine displeasure, and of her own folly and sin. It is a proof that we have loved with a criminal affection that which we leave with grief and anxiety, though commanded by the Lord to abandon it.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 32. Remember Lot's wife .] Whose name by the Jews, is said to be Adith, as some f547 ; or Irith, as others f548 : and who, they also say, was a native of Sodom; and that the reason of her looking, was either to see what would be the end of her father's house and family f549 ; or as others f550 , because her heart yearned after her daughters, and she looked back to see if they followed her; upon which she became a pillar of salt, ( Genesis 19:26) They say f551 , that her bones were burnt with the brimstone, and along with which was salt, into which she was turned, according to ( Deuteronomy 29:23). They often speak of tymwrs jlm , “salt of Sodom” f552 ; where the gloss says, it is thick and hard, as a stone; and to which they sometimes ascribe this virtue, that it blinds the eyes: and there is a sort of salt, which they call Galilaean salt, of like hardness; and Pliny speaks of salt in the Indies, which they cut out, as stones out of quarries; and that, at Carthis, a town in Arabia, is salt with which they build houses and walls: of a very durable nature it is certain, was this pillar of “salt”, Lot's wife became; for Josephus reports f556 , that he saw this pillar of salt in his time; and Irenaeus asserts f557 , that it was in being when he lived; and modern writers, as Burchardus and Adrichomius, speak of it as still existing; and the Jerusalem “paraphrast” on ( Genesis 19:26) says it shall endure till the time the resurrection comes, in which the dead shall live: the reason of her becoming a pillar of salt, the Jews say, is, that she sinned by salt, and so was punished by salt; and which is differently related, and in a very fanciful way: one writer reports, that when the angels came, Lot said to her, give me a little salt for these travellers; she replied to him, truly this is a bad custom, which thou bringest to be used in this place; and elsewhere it is said, that upon their coming, she went to all her neighbours, and said to them, give me some salt, for we have travellers; but her intention was, that the men of the city might know them: but leaving those things, our Lord's design in these words, is to instruct his followers by this instance, not to look back in their flight, or to turn back to their houses, to save their goods, when the desolation of Jerusalem was coming on, lest they should suffer in it; and to warn all professors of religion, in all ages, against looking back to things that are behind, or turning their backs on him, in a time of distress and persecution; since such are not fit for the kingdom of God; and in these God has no delight and pleasure.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 20-37 - The kingdom of God was among the Jews, or rather within some of them It was a spiritual kingdom, set up in the heart by the power of Divin grace. Observe how it had been with sinners formerly, and in what stat the judgments of God, which they had been warned of, found them. Her is shown what a dreadful surprise this destruction will be to the secure and sensual. Thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man i revealed. When Christ came to destroy the Jewish nation by the Roma armies, that nation was found in such a state of false security as i here spoken of. In like manner, when Jesus Christ shall come to judg the world, sinners will be found altogether regardless; for in lik manner the sinners of every age go on securely in their evil ways, an remember not their latter end. But wherever the wicked are, who ar marked for eternal ruin, they shall be found by the judgments of God __________________________________________________________________
Greek Textus Receptus
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Robertson's NT Word Studies
17:32 {Remember Lot's wife} (mnemoneuete tes gunaikos lwt). Here only in the N.T. A pertinent illustration to warn against looking back with yearning after what has been left behind (#Ge 19:26).
