“(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)”
For as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds — the daily experience of witnessing lawlessness (anomos) without the power to stop it produces moral anguish. The torment of the soul (basanizō) suggests spiritual distress disproportionate to physical danger. Lot's righteous consciousness is itself a form of suffering in a wicked community.
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