这代表了对古代教会的审判的下一步--推而广之，也代表了我们所有人在摆脱邪恶、努力变得更好时所经历的过程。在上一节中，主进入、净化并保护了那个仍有向善之心的教会的残余部分。在这里，我们看到那些被邪恶的欲望和错误的想法所证实的反击的开始。

城里的人 "代表那些被确认为错误信仰的人；"所多玛的人 "代表那些被确认为邪恶欲望的人；"老的、少的、从各处来的 "指他们所有人。房子 "代表被主保护的余民内心对善的渴望，他们 "包围 "房子的事实表明他们反对和憎恨这种对善的渴望。

在受诱惑的时候，我们内心也会遭受类似的冲突，因为我们自己的邪恶欲望和错误的信念会聚集在一起，反对我们向善的愿望。

(参考: 属天的奥秘2345)

302. This was the reason why mysteries of faith were never revealed to the Jews. Being what they were they were not even explicitly told that they would live after death, nor explicitly told that the Lord would come into the world to save them. Indeed they were kept in such ignorance and stupidity, and are so still, that as a result they did not know and still do not know of the existence of the internal man, or of anything internal at all. For if they had known it then, or were to know it now, so as to acknowledge it, they would profane it and in so doing would have no hope at all of salvation in the next life. This is what the Lord meant in John,

He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they see with their eyes and understand with their heart, and are converted and I heal them. John 12:40.

Also, the Lord spoke to them in parables, and without explaining any to them, 'lest seeing they might see, and hearing they might hear, and understand', as He declares in Matthew 13:13. For the same reason all mysteries of faith were concealed from them and hidden beneath the representatives of their Church, and it was for the same reason that the prophetical style took the form it did. It is one thing however to know and another to acknowledge. Anyone who knows but does not acknowledge is in the same position as one who does not know, whereas anyone who does acknowledge and after that speaks blasphemy and practises profanation is what the Lord was referring to.