Lot’s Daughters

Lot did not remain long in Zoar. Under the im­pulse of a fear, incited, in all likelihood, by the thought that the city, given him as an asylum, would eventually meet with a fate similar to that of her sisters, he took up his residence in a cave, he and his two daugh­ters. Here his biography ends in a scene of incest. Though the act, once repeated, must of course be de­nounced as gross sin, it is doubtful whether it can be regarded as constituting the logical conclusion to a career of...