What does the biblical allusion at the end of Jonathan Edwards's sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" mean?

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a Biblicalat the end of his sermon "" that represents God's willingness to use
violence and death to teach humans about His law. Edwards uses God's own words from the Old
Testament by incorporating this allusion into his sermon, and he simultaneously emphasizes his
own role as a Christian leader and an instrument of God by doing so.

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Biblical allusion refers to the passage in Genesis in which Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed; in
this famous Bible passage, Lot's wife is turned into a pillar of salt when she defies the
angels' command to "not look back" at her burning village. This shocking image is only
one of many images used by Edwards in this sermon to warn his listeners of the consequences of
not following God's law; some of the most powerful passages in the sermon employ terrifying ,
and so this selection from the Bible is a predictable choice for Edwards.

The Old Testament in general focuses on the giving...