Lot's wife
historical figure · 4 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages
a certain woman · that Hebrew woman
in the texts
Stromata
Biblical figure turned into a pillar of salt, cited as an example of judgment upon inward volition.
" For God looks to the very judgment, since he left Lot's wife too, who turned, willingly only, toward the worldly vice, without perception, having shown her as a pillar of salt and fixed her so as not to advance — not a foolish and useless image, but one to season and to give pungency to the man able to discern spiritually.
" And he who has once been told the good news and "has seen the salvation," at whatever hour he recognizes it, let him not "turn back, like Lot's wife," nor turn to the former life that clings to the things of sense, nor run back to the heresies;
Letters
Biblical figure alluded to as a warning against turning back.
except that I have in no way repented of my first impulse, nor does my soul flag toward the goal of the life that is according to God — which you feared on my behalf, doing rightly and fittingly for yourself, lest, turning back, I should become a pillar of salt, as a certain woman suffered, as I hear.
Protrepticus
Wife of Lot, turned to stone; invoked as an exemplar of petrification for loving Sodom.
We have received that this woman was turned to stone for her love of Sodom;
De Monogamia
Lot's wife, referenced as an example of looking back with wrongful longing.
What if one should think of posterity with the same mind as Lot's wife with her eyes—so that for this reason one should repeat marriage, because he had no children by the former?