the word "overthrow" is generally used when this destruction is spoken of, De 29:23 and therefore retained by the apostle here:making them ensamples unto those who after should live ungodly; in the commission of any sins, and be open, bold, and impudent in them, and declare them as they did; and especially that should live in the commission of the same sins, those unnatural lusts and uncleannesses, which to this day go by the name of "sodomy", and "sodomitical" practices; now the punishment of the inhabitants of these cities was an ensample to such wicked conduct, showing what they must expect, and was a representation of those everlasting burnings, which such sinners, as a righteous retaliation for their burning lusts, shall be cast into.
The Jews say the same of the men of Sodom and Gomorrah as of the old world;"the men of Sodom have no part in the world to come, as is said Ge 13:13 "but the men of Sodom were wicked, and sinners before the Lord exceedingly"; wicked in this world, and sinners in the world to come;''See Gill on "Jude 1:7".
De Temulentia, p. 272. Antiqu. l. 1. c. 8. sect. 3. c. 11. sect. 3. De Abrahamo, p. 381. De Temulentia, p. 272. Polyhistor. c. 48. De Vifa Mosis, l. 2. p. 662. Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 11. sect. 3. Vajikra Rabba, sect.
4. fol. 149.