Sodom
place · 6 works · 6 mentions · 6 anchored passages
in the texts
Letters
City where Lot alone was saved, cited as example.
For even if one alone be saved, as Lot in Sodom, he ought to abide by the right judgment, holding unshaken his hope in Christ, since the Lord will not forsake His holy ones.
Protrepticus
City whose destruction and Lot's wife's attachment to it are invoked as a warning.
We have received that this woman was turned to stone for her love of Sodom;
Stromata
City from which Lot was saved on account of his hospitality and piety.
For hospitality and piety Lot was saved from Sodom;
The Rights of War and Peace
City plundered by the four Kings, precipitating Abraham's war of rescue.
For when Abraham with his servants and confederates had gained a victory, by force of arms, over the four Kings, who had plundered Sodom, God approved of his act by the mouth of his priest Melchisedech, who said to him, “Blessed be the most high God, who hath delivered thine enemies into thine hand.
Adversus Marcionem
The city from which the Creator freed Lot's family, forbidding them to look back, cited as precedent for Christ's teaching against looking back.
This too that other one had been unwilling to have done by those whom he had freed from Sodom.
De Pallio
Biblical city destroyed by fire, 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.