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I. GOD'S HATRED OF SIN DEMONSTRATED BY THE DESTRUCTION OF SINNERS. The punishment of evil-doers forms a large portion of the sacred volume. Sin is never unpunished if not pardoned. This is a beneficent as well as just treatment. The safety of moral beings is thereby secured.

II. NATIONAL SINS VISITED BY UNIVERSAL DESTRUCTION.

III. SIN MUST BE EXTERMINATED. God does destroy sin by reconstructing, and He reconstructs the order of society by destroying.

IV. THE WARNING IS THE STRONGEST.

(T. Davies, D. D.)

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KJV: Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

WEB: Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.