most life, so sinfulness in Sodom and Gomorrah choked out righteous living. We surmise that Lot’s wife may have been comfortable in Sodom’s sinful environment. As a consequence of looking back, she received a permanent home on the shore of the Dead Sea. What sins tempt your heart to look back in longing? —J. E. 29a. And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham. When God is said to remember,