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  2 PETER 2:8
  by John Gill
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Summary: The sermon explores the challenges faced by Lot as a righteous
man living among the wicked, emphasizing the importance of maintaining
faith in a corrupt world.

Topics: "Righteousness in a Corrupt World", "The Struggles of Faith"
Scripture References: Genesis 13:12, Psalm 119:158, Psalm 120:5, 2 Peter 2:8

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John Gill emphasizes the plight of the righteous man, Lot, who lived
among the wicked in Sodom, illustrating the sorrow and grief that can
accompany such a situation. He highlights how Lot, despite being
surrounded by immorality, remained steadfast in his righteousness,
unable to bear the sinful actions and language of those around him. Gill
explains that Lot's soul was continually vexed by the unlawful deeds he
witnessed, showcasing the internal struggle of maintaining one's faith
in a corrupt environment.

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Ver. 8. For that righteous man dwelling among them,.... Which is
sometimes the lot of good men, to their great sorrow and grief, Ps
120:5. Upon mentioning those words in Ge 13:12 "and pitched his tent
towards Sodom", but the men of Sodom were wicked, &c. says R. Eleazar
{i};

"he is a righteous man that dwells between two wicked men, and does not
learn their works;''

and such an one was Lot, whatever they are elsewhere pleased to say of
him: "in seeing and hearing"; the Vulgate Latin version reads this in
connection with the word "righteous", thus, "in seeing and hearing he
was righteous": he could not bear to see their filthy actions, and hear
their obscene language, but turned away from them, and shut his eyes,
and stopped his ears, by which he appears to be a righteous and good
man; though rather this belongs to what follows, seeing their wicked
practices, and hearing their filthy talk:

vexed his righteous soul from, day today with their unlawful deeds;
either "they vexed" him, as the Vulgate Latin and Ethiopic versions
read; or rather "he vexed" himself; he fretted and teased himself, and
became exceeding uneasy, and was put upon a rack and tortured, as the
word signifies, continually, with their wicked actions; see

Ps 119:158.

{i} T. Bab. Yoma, fol. 38. 2.

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/john-gill/2-peter-28/
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