and condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes, having appointed them as an example for those who are going to be ungodly, and rescued righteous Lot, worn down by the way of life of lawless persons in licentiousness (for that righteous man, as he[a] lived among them day after day, was tormenting his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he was seeing and hearing),

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 2:8 Here “as” is supplied as a component of the participle (“lived”) which is understood as temporal