Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
And they smote the men - with blindness - This has been understood two ways:
1.The angels, by the power which God had given them, deprived these wicked men of a proper and regular use of their sight, so as either totally to deprive them of it, or render it so confused that they could no longer distinguish objects; or,
2.They caused such a deep darkness to take place, that they could not find Lot' s door. The author of the book of The Wisdom of Solomon was evidently of this latter opinion, for he says they were compassed about with horrible great darkness, Genesis 19:17. See a similar case of Elisha and the Syrians, II Kings 6:18, etc.
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