“And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.”
The angels tell Lot: whoever else you have here, get them out of this place — sons-in-law, sons, daughters, anyone in the city who belongs to you. The urgency of the command is total: the judgment is coming, get everyone out who is yours. The specificity of the list — sons-in-law, sons, daughters — is the list of everyone Lot might reasonably expect to bring. The command to rescue is as wide as Lot's family relationships. The application mirrors Luke 14:23: go out to the roads and country lanes and compel them to come in. The rescue is urgent, comprehensive, and personally motivated — Lot knows these people; they are his. The urgency of rescue is always proportional to the reality of the threat.
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