. The Bible panorama, or The Holy Scriptures in picture and story. m, and Abraham walked with them. And yet, although we call them men, these three persons were not of them, we believe, were angels, and the other one was the Lord. Youmay ask, Could it be the Lord -who looked and talked like a man? Yes, for hecould come down to this world in the form of a man. We read in the Bible,several times, of his coming, and staying for a little while, and speaking to men. And now the Lord was going to send his angels to burn up Sodom andGomorrah, because the people who lived there were so wicked.
. The Bible panorama, or The Holy Scriptures in picture and story. m, and Abraham walked with them. And yet, although we call them men, these three persons were not of them, we believe, were angels, and the other one was the Lord. Youmay ask, Could it be the Lord -who looked and talked like a man? Yes, for hecould come down to this world in the form of a man. We read in the Bible,several times, of his coming, and staying for a little while, and speaking to men. And now the Lord was going to send his angels to burn up Sodom andGomorrah, because the people who lived there were so wicked. And he waswilling to tell Abraham what he would do; for Abraham loved God, and obeyedhim, and taught his family to obey him. Abraham feared that Lot, who lived in Sodom, might be burned up also, and he spoke to the Lord, and said, that perhaps there were some righteous persons living in the city, and he asked whether the righteous should be destroyed with the wicked. The Lord said that if there were but ten righteous persons in Sodom he would not destroy it. 26. WHILE ABRAHAM TS SITTING AT THE DOOR OF TITS TENT HE SEES THREE MEN. 97 rasis xvm. 2. Sodom is Burked by Fire from Heayek T OT was sitting at the gate of Sodom in the evening; and two angels came J X. there, but they looked like men. They were, we suppose, the same that had been with the Lord at Abrahams tent. When Lot saw them he rose upto meet them, and bowed down with his face toward the ground. And heasked them to come into his house and stay there all night, and in themorning, he said, they should go on their journey. They answered, ISTo, wewill stay in the street all night. But Lot begged them, until they consented;so they came, and he set out food for them, and they did eat. Afterward they asked whether he had any sons or daughters in the city,beside those who were with him in the house; if he had, the angels said, heshould go and take them out of Sodom, for the Lord had sent them to destroyit. Then Lot went and
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