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There are perhaps fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not forgive the place for the sake of the fifty righteous that are therein?
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There are perhaps fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not forgive the place for the sake of the fifty righteous that are therein?
2266. Verse 28. Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous; wilt Thou destroy all the city for five? And He said, I will not destroy it if I find there forty and five. “Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous,” signifies if there should be somewhat less; “wilt thou destroy all the city for five?” signifies, shall man perish for the little which is wanting? “and He said, I will not destroy it if I find there forty and five,” signifies that he should not perish if good and truth could be conjoined together.