1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Genesis 19:24 | *And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrha brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven. Deuteronomy 29:23.; Isaias 13:19.; Jeremias 50:40.; Ezechiel 16:49.; Osee 11:8.; Amos 4:11.; Luke 17:29.; Jude 1:7. | The Lord rained...from the Lord, in a miraculous manner. Sodom and the other cities did not perish by earthquakes and other natural causes only, but by the divine wrath exerting itself in a visible manner. Here is an insinuation of a plurality of persons in God, as the C. of Sirmich declares, C. 14. --- And Gomorrha, and the other towns which were not so large, nor perhaps so infamous. --- Brimstone and fire; to denote the bad odour and violence of their disorders. (Menochius) |