The Overthrow of Sodom

Having attended to Abraham's intercessory prayer, and having assured him that the righteous would not be destroyed with the wicked, the Lord went His way, to institute an inquiry into the state of affairs of the five cities. Here the narrative breaks off; the next scene, which the sacred writer exhibits, was en­acted in the doomed plain. Having left Hebron after midday, the two angels are before the gate at Sodom at evening. Lot, who sits in the gate, rises to meet them. Once in their presence,...