OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 19:24

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Then the LORD rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the LORD out of the sky.

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Verse 24. 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 Calmet. of Sirmich declares, chapter 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.

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