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Lot's wife
- In the Book of Genesis , a disobedient woman whom God punished. God sent angels to destroy the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah for their wickedness, but chose to spare Lot and his family. The angels commanded them to flee without turning back to look at the destruction; Lot's wife did look back and was immediately changed into a pillar of salt.
Example Sentences
Because they think they are white, however vociferous they may be and however multitudinous, they are as speechless as Lot's wifeâ looking backward, changed into a pillar of salt.
If the Lord had found another five or six righteous residents, Sodom and Gomorrah would have been spared, and Lotâs wife would not have spent the next few millennia on the rim of a margarita glass.
She makes of the maid an almost Shakespearean figure; even at the depths of the characterâs despair, in the scarifying 11 oâclock number âLotâs Wife,â she commands attention without begging for it, and does not allow herself, because Caroline wouldnât, the luxury of collapse.
âI felt compelled to look back even though I was warned not to,â she said, referencing the biblical account of Lotâs wife turning into a pillar of salt.
âVery well; I hope you feel the content you express: at any rate, your good sense will tell you that it is too soon yet to yield to the vacillating fears of Lotâs wife. What you had left before I saw you, of course I do not know; but I counsel you to resist firmly every temptation which would incline you to look back: pursue your present career steadily, for some months at least.â
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