Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 19:26

26 But his wife looked back from behind him , and she became a pillar of Salt .

Through curiosity, or unbelief, or desire of what she left, or from all these causes.

(i. e.) From behind her Husband, whom she followed. Which circumstance seems to be mentioned as the reason of this presumption, because she could do it without her Husbands observation or reproof, to which she had a greater regard than to the all-seeing eye of God.

i. e. Her body, by a very common Synecdoche.

Either metaphorically, i. e. a perpetual durable pillar, as an Everlasting Covenant is called a pillar of Salt, Numb. 18. 19. or properly, for there is a kind of Metallick Salt: which resists the Rain, and is hard enough for Buildings, as Pliny, Solinus, and others Witness. And that Salt was here mixed with Brimstone may be gathered from Deut. 29. 23. Adde to this, that Iosephus Antiq. 1. 12. Affirms that this pillar remained in his time. And the like is witnessed by others after him.

Marginal references: Luke 17. 3[illegible: 1+ letters].