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Similarities exist between this deprivation of perception of Lot's doorknob and incidents described in the Gospels concerning a lack of perception of Jesus, both on the Road to Emmaus and in the encounter with an angel at the tomb. In
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→Hebrew term: The context of the Sodom residents wearing themselves out groping for the door implies that they could see images of its doorknob, but its location repeatedly eluded them as they tried to grasp it.
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→Hebrew term: is not used in other references for blindness in the Bible
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Translations possibly more precise than "struck with blindness" are: *"deprived of awareness" *"deprived of their perception" *"rendered unable to perceive"
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→Hebrew term: When the Bible refers to a general affliction of blindness, it uses the different Hebrew term of וּבְעִוָּר֑וֹן (ū-ḇə-‘iw-wā-rō-wn), as in Deuteronomy 28:28.
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→Hebrew term: The context of the Sodom residents wearing themselves out groping for the door implies that they could see images of its doorknob, but it repeatedly eluded them as they tried to grasp it.
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The context of the Sodom residents wearing themselves groping for the door implies that they could see images of its doorknob, but it repeatedly eluded them as they tried to grasp it.
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That context is an inability to discern the location of the doorknob on Lot's door, not a general blindness.
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Thus its meaning needs to be inferred from its context in Genesis 19:11.
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Moreover, the Hebrew term used is a rare one and its translation as "blindness" is merely inferred.
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A more precise translation benefiting from modern quantum mechanics would be that the Sodom evildoers were deprived of their awareness, their full consciousness needed to eliminate quantum uncertainty about the location of the doorknob. They can
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