Sodom and Gomorrah
place · 7 works · 8 mentions · 10 anchored passages
Gomorrah · Sodom · the malice of that age smitten by fires
in the texts
Adversus Marcionem
The cities destroyed for wickedness, cited both as an example of punishment by fire and as the occasion for God's rhetorical statement of going down to investigate.
unjustly that the malice of that age was smitten by rains and then by fires;
But descending to Sodom and Gomorrah, He says, "I will see whether they are consummated according to the cry that comes to me;
" That best one, lord of no Gehenna, who a little before had coerced the disciples, lest they should demand fire upon a most inhuman little village — when this one burnt up Sodom and Gomorrah with a fiery storm, when it was sung, "Fire shall go forth before him and shall consume his enemies," when too through Hosea he threatened, "I will send fire upon the cities of Judea," or through Isaiah, "A f …
Ad Uxorem
The biblical cities destroyed suddenly, invoked as a warning image.
Let us marry daily, and, marrying, let us be caught by the day of terror like Sodom and Gomorrah.
Adversus Judaeos
Destroyed cities whose names are transferred figuratively to the Jews.
For he calls your rulers the rulers of Sodom, and your people he calls the people of Gomorrah, though those cities had long since been extinguished.
Adversus Praxean
Cities destroyed by fire and brimstone, cited as scriptural evidence of two divine persons.
"And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.
The Son, then, is he who from the beginning judged — dashing down the most arrogant tower and scattering tongues, punishing the whole world with the violence of waters, raining upon Sodom and Gomorrah fire and brimstone — the Lord from the Lord.
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber
The biblical cities destroyed suddenly, invoked as a warning paradigm for those absorbed in the daily pursuit of marriage.
Let us marry, then, daily, and, marrying, let us be caught by the last day, like Sodom and Gomorrah, on which day that WOE upon the pregnant and the nursing shall be fulfilled — that is, upon the married and the incontinent;
De ieiunio adversus psychicos
The destroyed cities cited as a counterfactual example of what fasting might have averted.
Sodom too and Gomorrah would have escaped, had they fasted.
De Pallio
Biblical city destroyed alongside Sodom, cited as an example of the earth's changeability.
thus far is Sodom, and there is no Gomorrah, and ashes are all things, and the nearness of the sea, together with the soil, lives a death.