just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns which like them indulged in immorality and unnatural vice stand as a warning, in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

But these people deride anything they do not understand, and the things they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals, they use for their own destruction.

Alas for them, for they follow Cain's path, they plunge into Balaam's error for gain, and they perish in rebelliousness like Korah's.

save, snatching them out of the fire, and look on others with pity mixed with fear, loathing even the clothes their animal nature has stained.