Luke 17:28

Likewise, even as it was in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;

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WEBBE

Likewise, even as it was in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;

BSB

It was the same in the days of Lot: People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.

KJV

Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

ASV

Likewise even as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

BBE

In the same way, in the days of Lot; they were feasting and trading, they were planting and building;

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ὁμοίως homoiōs Likewise G3668 καθὼς kathōs even as G2531 ἐγένετο egeneto it came to pass G1096 ἐν en in G1722 ταῖς tais the G3588 ἡμέραις hēmerais days G2250 Λώτ Lōt of Lot G3091 ἤσθιον ēsthion they were eating G2068 ἔπινον epinon they were drinking G4095 ἠγόραζον ēgorazon they were buying G59 ἐπώλουν epōloun they were selling G4453 ἐφύτευον ephuteuon they were planting G5452 ᾠκοδόμουν ōkodomoun they were building G3618

The early church

Passing by the unutterable wickedness of the Sodomites, He mentions only those which may be thought trifling offences, or none at all; that you may understand how fearfully unlawful pleasures are punished, when lawful pleasures taken to excess receive for their reward fire and brimstone.

Bede · d. 735Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

Now mystically, Lot, which is interpreted 'turning aside,' is the people of the elect, who, while in Sodom, i. e. among the wicked, live as strangers, to the utmost of their power turning aside from all their wicked ways. But when Lot went out, Sodom is destroyed, for at the end of the world, the angels shall go forth and sever the wicked from among the just, and cast them into a furnace of fire. (Matt. 13:49.) The fire and brimstone, however, which He relates to have rained from heaven, does not signify the flame itself of everlasting punishment, but the sudden coming of that day.

Bede · d. 735Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

For when Antichrist has come, then shall men become wanton, given up to abominable vices, as the Apostle says, Lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. (2 Tim. 3:4.) For if Antichrist is the dwelling-place of every sin, what else will he then implant in the miserable race of men, but what belongs to himself. And this our Lord implies by the instances of the deluge and the people of Sodom.

Theophylact of Ohrid · d. 1107Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

Commentary

Matthew Henry · 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 Divine grace. Observe how it had been with sinners formerly, and in what state the judgments of God, which they had been warned of, found them. Here 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 is revealed. When Christ came to destroy the Jewish nation by the Roman armies, that nation was found in such a state of false security as is here spoken of. In like manner, when Jesus Christ shall come to judge the world, sinners will be found altogether regardless; for in like manner the sinners of every age go on securely in their evil ways, and remember not their latter end. But wherever the wicked are, who are marked for eternal ruin, they shall be found by the judgments of God.

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