Luke 17:28

28 Likewise as it was in the days of Lot--they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built,

Luke 17:28 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 17:28

Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot
When he lived in Sodom, and before, and at the time of the destruction of that city with other neighbouring ones:

they did eat, they drank; (See Gill on Luke 17:27), and ( Ezekiel 16:49 ) . This is to be understood of the inhabitants of Sodom, and the other cities that perished with it:

they bought, they sold:
they traded among themselves, and with their neighbours; and, as it appears from the text referred to, they had no regard to the poor and needy; they made no conscience of defrauding and oppressing them:

they planted;
vineyards, and fruit trees; living in a very fruitful soil, like the garden of God, ( Genesis 13:10 )

they builded;
houses for themselves and posterity; and thus, as a Jewish writer F8 observes of them, in agreement with our Lord's design in all this, being filled with the increase of the earth, they lived in security, peace, and tranquillity.


FOOTNOTES:

F8 Pirke Eliezer, c. 25.

Luke 17:28 In-Context

26 As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of man.
27 They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
28 Likewise as it was in the days of Lot--they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built,
29 but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom fire and sulphur rained from heaven and destroyed them all--
30 so will it be on the day when the Son of man is revealed.
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