The first persons who actually defined Sodom’s sin as a homosexual act lived centuries later. The Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria (c. 25 BCE to 50 CE) wrote: “But God, having taken pity on mankind, as being a Savior and full of love for mankind, increased, as far as possible, the natural desire of men and women for a connection together, for the sake of producing children, and detesting the unnatural and unlawful commerce of the people of Sodom, he extinguished it, and destroyed those who