And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Ces hommes se levèrent pour partir, et ils regardèrent du côté de Sodome. Abraham alla avec eux, pour les accompagner.
KJV
And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.
Philo Judaeus
De Migratione Abrahami
τοῦ λόγοις, οὓς ὀνομάζειν ἔθος ἀγγέλους· λέγεται γοῦν ὅτι „Ἀβραὰμ συνεπορεύετο συμπροπέμπων αὐτούς“ (Gen. 18, 16). ὢ παγκάλης ἐπανισώσεως, καθ’ ἣν ὁ παραπέμπων παρεπέμπετο, διδοὺς ὃ ἐλάμβανεν, οὐκ ἀνθ’ ἑτέρου ἕτερον, ἀλλὰ ἓν αὐτὸ μόνον ἐκεῖνο τὸ πρὸς τὰς ἀντιδόσεις ἕτοιμον. ἕως μ…
Eusebius of Caesarea
Generalis elementaria introductio (= Eclogae propheticae)
γῃ Κύριος ἐπὶ Ἁβραὰμ ἃ ἐλάλησεν πρὸς αὐτόν. Εἶπεν δὲ Κύριος· κραυγὴ Σοδόμων καὶ Γομόρρας πεπλήθυνται.Gen. 18, 16. Καὶ μετ’ ὀλίγα· καὶ ἀποστρέψαντες ἐκεῖθεν οἱ ἄνδρες ἦλθον εἰς Σόδομα· Ἁβραὰμ δὲ ἦν ἑστηκὼς ἑναντίον Κυρίου· καὶ ἐγγίσας Ἁβραὰμ εἶπεν, Μὴ συναπολέσῃς δίκαιον μετὰ ἀσεβ…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
(De Anima ii). But the angels are manifestly seen to move in their assumed bodies. For it was said ( Gn. 18:16 ) that "Abraham walked with" the angels, who had appeared to him, "bringing them on the way"; and when Tobias said to the angel ( Tob. 5:7,8 ): "Knowest thou the way tha…
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