And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.
Ver. 2. Nay, but we will abide in the street.] They would have done so, but for Lot's importunity. So our Saviour would have gone farther, but that the two disciples constrained him to stay. Luk 24:29 This was no simulation; or if so, yet it was only exploratory, without deceit or hypocrisy. And if Solomon sinned not in making believe he would do that which was unlawful to be done, 1Ki 3:24 it can be no sin to do the like in things indifferent.