THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE - Chapter 17 - Verse 32

Verse 32. Remember Lot's wife. See Barnes "Ge 19:26".

She looked back—she delayed —perhaps she desired to take something with her, and God made her a monument of his displeasure. Jesus directed his disciples, when they saw the calamities coming upon the Jews, to flee to the mountains, Mt 24:16. He here charges them to be in haste—not to look back—no!; to delay—but to escape quickly, and to remember that by delaying, the wife of Lot lost her life.

{w} Ge 19:26