Содомський дискурс у біблійній, сковородинській та воєнній харківській інтерпретації

Abstract

The Sodom discourse takes its cue from the biblical story of the destruction of the city of Sodom due to the fall of its inhabitants. The angel warned only the righteous Lot’s family. Leaving the city, Lot’s wife looked back and turned to the pillar of salt for disobedience. The biblical story about the destruction of the city of Sodom, the rescue of the righteous Lot and the transformation of his wife into a pillar of salt is told in Hryhoriy Skovoroda’s treatise “Booklet on Reading the Holy Scriptures”, “Lot’s wife is named”. The exegete advises perceiving the biblical story of Lot and his wife purely as an allegorical picture of God’s wisdom on the way to the salvation of mankind, which proves once again that as an alternative to the traditional four-sense biblical hermeneutics, Hryhoriy Skovoroda saw a comprehensive allegory of the Holy Scriptures, within which the discourse of Sodom is built. The Sodom discourse has its continuation not in literary texts but in actual texts of life in the conditions of the Russian-Ukrainian war, but already with an opposite meaning to its biblical and Skovoroda’s message. The Russian occupiers, who have appropriated the functions of God and distorted the idea of the Absolute, the Truth, with their “fastidious” and cultural values of the imperial “russian world”, confusing the sinful with the righteous, with the help of their rockets, bombs, and shells, are erasing entire villages and towns from the face of the Ukrainian land, they kill both babies and the infirm old people just because they are Ukrainians, without caring about their fall into sin or righteousness...