Chapter Eleven: The Destruction of Sodom

Abstract

God does not want to conceal his thoughts and future actions from Abraham, similar to the interesting way of his not concealing Sarah’s inner laugh from him. This is connected to the ethical matter that Abraham will promote: doing righteousness and justice. This morality exists when the same rules apply to highborn and lowborn, to poor and rich, and all are equal before the law, and all the nations are included in this. That is to say: the multitude. This implies that morality here is not subject to the pagan principle of many gods corresponding to many people, but on that of the one God in relation to many people, making everyone altogether equal before the law. The question is: can the one God place himself within the many and not only contain the many?