Luke 17:28

28 in like manner also, as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building;

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.

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FOOTNOTES:

F8 Pirke Eliezer, c. 25.

Luke 17:28 In-Context

26 `And, as it came to pass in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man;

27 they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were given in marriage, till the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the deluge came, and destroyed all;

28 in like manner also, as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building;

29 and on the day Lot went forth from Sodom, He rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed all.

30 `According to these things it shall be, in the day the Son of Man is revealed;