But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
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Clement Of Alexandria
AD 215
For God looks closely at the actual inner purpose, as when Lot’s wife was the only one to turn of her own free will toward the wickedness of the world. He left her insensible, giving her the likeness of a pillar of salt and leaving her without the power of forward movement, a statue, yet not one without a useful message but one intended to season and salt the person capable of spiritual perception. ..
And his wife. As a standing memorial to the servants of God to proceed in virtue, and not to look back to vice or its allurements. (Challoner)
His, Lot's wife. The two last verses might be within a parenthesis.
Remember Lot's wife, our Saviour admonishes us. Having begun a good work, let us not leave it imperfect, and lose our reward. (Luke xvii; Matthew xxiv.)
A statue of durable metallic salt, petrified as it were, to be an eternal monument of an incredulous soul, Wisdom x. 7. Some say it still exists. (Haydock)
God may have inflicted this temporal punishment on her, and saved her soul. (Menochius)
She looked back, as if she distrusted the words of the angel; but her fault was venial. (Tirinus)
