In Chapters 18 and 19, God is represented as an investigating magistrate responding to a complaint ("outcry") from mankind, rather than as an omniscient being acting of his own volition. He listens to and is persuaded by a plea in mitigation from Abraham. The initial judgment against Sodom is not absolute - it becomes absolute only when the men of Sodom attempt to associate the Being of God with their sexual practices through sexual communion with the angels of God. Recurrent symbols: the door of Abraham's tent, the gate of the city of Sodom, the door of Lot's house, the angels of God, are fraught with meaning. The "blindness" afflicted upon the men of Sodom has implications for our own age. However I remain puzzled by the incest of Lot. There is something we have missed there, yet to be uncovered in the commentaries.
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