Artist: Heinrich Aldegrever
Lot Prevents the Sodomites from Violence, from The Story of Lot
Lot, at center, addresses two Sodomites at left, while an angel pulls on his arm at right. Based on Genesis 19:10. Plate 2 from a series of four engravings.
Genesis 19
…9 But they said, "Stand aside." Furthermore, they said, "This one came in as an alien, and already he is acting like a judge; now we will treat you worse than them." So they pressed hard against Lot and came near to break the door.
10 But the men reached out their hands and brought Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.
11 They struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the doorway.…
