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19: 1-38
Lot’s irresoluteness makes ncolierent (20) Small
wonder that his deliverance is finally
moment to spare. Mad the sun risen a
might have shared the fate of his wife; for God’s
mysterious workings must not be looked at by man.” In
addition to all this, Lot’s degeneracy is further under-
scored, in his declining years, by intoxication and incest
(vv. 30-38). Though neither of these were of his own
making, they surely do point up his failure as a father,
by proving that he allowed his offspring to suEfer the
contaminations of the environment in which he had placed
them by his own choice and had allowed them to grow up,
to become promised to men of Sodom, and so to become
ted by the moral rot with which the Cities of the
Plain fairly‘ stank. It is significant-is it not?-that after
this last-recdrded disgraceful incident, the name of Lot
disappears completely from sacred history, not even his
deaih being recorded. “Here is an eternal picture of the
corrosive possibilities :of -a bad environment. Those who
accustom themselves to the ways of an evil society may
themselves .at last be evil. What is happening now to
people {who make *no .effective protest against the wrongs
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