The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917], at sacred-texts.com
angel
(See Scofield) - (Heb 1:4).
Lot sat
Compare (Dan 2:49).
Lot the compromiser with Daniel the inflexible. Lot was a great man (Deu 21:19); (Deu 21:20) in a place devoted to judgment.
Compare (Act 17:31).
And they said
The world's contempt for a worldly believer.
Lot
Lot had utterly lost his testimony. In gaining influence (Gen 19:1) he had lost power, even in his own family.
angel
(See Scofield) - (Heb 1:4).
when God
(See Scofield) - (Gen 19:36).
Come
Lot "pitched toward Sodom" (Gen 13:12) for worldly advantage; then became a great man in Sodom (Gen 19:1) at the cost of his daughter's accepting the morals of Sodom.
Thus were
Abraham and Lot are contrasted characters. Of the same stock (Gen 11:31) subjected to the same environment, and both justified men; (Gen 15:6); (Pe2 2:7); (Pe2 2:8) the contrast in character and career is shown to be the result of their respective choices at the crisis of their lives. Lot "chose him all the plain of Jordan" for present advantage; Abraham "looked for a city which hath foundations"; (Heb 11:10); (Gen 13:18) "came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre (fatness), which is in Hebron" (communion). The men remain types of the worldly and spiritual believer.