28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;



Ver. 28. They did eat, they drank] It is not said here, as Luk_17:27, they married wives; they affected rather those odious concubitus, qui non utrinque resolvunt (Ovid). The Turkish pashas have their catamites, {a} which are their serious loves; for their wives are used but to dress their meat, to laundress, and for reputation, saith one that had been among them. Sodomy (saith he) in the Levant is not held a vice. (Blount’s Voyage.)



{a} A boy kept for unnatural purposes. ŒD