Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
Verse 32. Come, let us make our father drink wine] On their flight from Zoar it is probable they had brought with them certain provisions to serve them for the time being, and the wine here mentioned among the rest.
After considering all that has been said to criminate both Lot and his daughters in this business, I cannot help thinking that the transaction itself will bear a more favourable construction than that which has been generally put on it.
1. It does not appear that it was through any base or sensual desires that the daughters of Lot wished to deceive their father.
2. They might have thought that it would have been criminal to have married into any other family, and they knew that their husbands elect, who were probably of the same kindred, had perished in the overthrow of Sodom.
3. They might have supposed that there was no other way left to preserve the family, and consequently that righteousness for which it had been remarkable, but the way which they now took.
4. They appear to have supposed that their father would not come into the measure, because he would have considered it as profane; yet, judging the measure to be expedient and necessary, they endeavoured to sanctify the improper means used, by the goodness of the end at which they aimed; a doctrine which, though resorted to by many, should be reprobated by all. Acting on this bad principle they caused their father to drink wine. See Clarke on Gen 19:38.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Wine they carried with them, amongst other necessary provisions, either from Sodom or Zoar.
This, though an incestuous and abominable action, yet they thought was made lawful by the supposed necessity, as in the beginning of the world the marriage of brethren and sisters was lawful because necessary; and when it ceased to be necessary, because of the increase of mankind, it became incestuous.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
Come, let us make our father drink wine,…. Meaning to excess, so as to be inebriated with it, and not know what he did: this wine might be brought with them from Sodom, with other provisions for their refreshment and support; or it may be rather from Zoar, where they furnished themselves with a quantity for their support in the mountain they betook themselves unto:
and we will lie with him, that we may preserve the seed of our father; have children by him, and propagate and preserve the human species; this they might think lawful, such incestuous copulations being usual among their neighbours the Arabs, as appears from Strabo s and other writers, and especially when there seemed to them to be a necessity for it; and it may be this did not arise from a spirit of uncleanness, or a brutish lust prevailing in them, having been religiously educated, and having preserved their chastity among such an impure generation as the men of Sodom: wherefore this might rather arise, as Bishop Patrick and others have thought, from an eager desire after the Messiah, they might hope would spring from them; their father being a descendant of Shem, a son of Abraham’s elder brother, and now remarkably saved from Sodom, which they might conclude was for this purpose; and they knew of no way in which it could be brought about but in this they proposed; and the rather this may be thought to be their view, as the above learned commentator observes, when we remark their former chaste life in Sodom; their joining together in this contrivance, which, had it been a lustful business, they would have been ashamed to have communicated their thoughts of it to one another; and their imposition of names on their children to perpetuate the memory of this fact, which they rather gloried in, than were ashamed of: to which may be added, that the ancient Jewish writers t interpret this of the Messiah; and they observe,
“it is not said a son, but seed, that seed, which is he that comes from another place: and what is this? this is the King Messiah:”
and Ruth, the Moabitess, who was of the race of the eldest daughter of Lot, stands in the genealogy of our Lord, Mt 1:5: however, let the intention be ever so good, it will, not justify an action so monstrously vile.
s Geograph. l. 16. p. 538. Vid. Pocock, Specim. Arab. Hist. p. 337, 338. t Bereshit Rabba, sect. 51. fol. 46. 1. Midrash Ruth, fol. 35. 4.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(32) That we may preserve seed of our father.This was a very strong feeling in ancient times, and affords the sole excuse for the revolting conduct of these women. The utter degradation of Lot and his family is the most painful part of his story, which thus ends in his intense shame.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Gen 19:32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
Ver. 32. Come, let us make our father drink. ] a She knew too well, that Venus in vinis, ignis in igne furit . It is like they had wine from Zoar. They sinned against conscience; and therefore intoxicated their father, who now forgets that he is a father, and does that, in a drunken pang, that which heaven and earth were afterwards ashamed of.
a So the great whore cometh forth with a cup Rev 17:2
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
wine. Hebrew. yayin. See App-27.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Come
Lot “pitched toward Sodom” Gen 13:12 for worldly advantage; then became a great man in Sodom Gen 19:1 at the cost of his daughter’s accepting the morals of Sodom.
Fuente: Scofield Reference Bible Notes
Come: Gen 11:3
drink: Gen 9:21, Pro 23:31-33, Hab 2:15, Hab 2:16
seed: Lev 18:6, Lev 18:7, Mar 12:19
Reciprocal: 2Sa 11:13 – made him 2Sa 13:28 – heart is merry Pro 23:33 – eyes Rom 5:13 – until Eph 5:18 – be not
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Gen 19:32. Come, let us make our father drink wine Although, upon the whole, Lot was a righteous man, and possessed of many amiable qualities, yet it evidently appears that his principles also, as well as those of his daughters, had suffered some degree of contamination by the society of evil-doers, otherwise surely he would have withstood every temptation to excess of drinking. Here the history of Lot ends; after this we hear no more of him or of his daughters. We cannot but be sorry to leave them under so dark a cloud. He, indeed, we have reason to believe, lived to repent of his sin, otherwise St. Peter would not have spoken so honourably of him; but we have no proof that his daughters repented of theirs. And certainly the children thus desired, and in this unlawful way obtained, were monuments of their own and their fathers reproach, and the names they thought fit to give them, which descended to their posterity, perpetuated the memory of their sin and shame to all generations: Moab signifying, of my father, and Ben-Ammi, the son of my people.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
19:32 Come, let us make our father {q} drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
(q) For unless he had been drunk, he would never have done that abominable act.