“Lot’s wife was a professor or religion: her husband was a ‘righteous man’ (2 Peter ii.8). She left Sodom with him on the day Sodom was destroyed; She looked back towards the city…against God’s express command; she was struck dead at once, and turned into a pillar of salt. And the Lord Jesus Christ holds her up as a beacon to His Church: He says, ‘Remember Lot’s wife.’…

“It is a solemn warning, when we think of the person Jesus names. He does not bid us remember Abraham, or Isaac, or Jacob, or Sarah, or Hannah, or Ruth. No: He singles out one whose soul was lost forever. He cries to us, ‘Remember Lot’s wife.’

“It is a solemn warning, when we think of the person who gives it. The Lord Jesus is full of love, mercy and compassion…. He could weep over unbelieving Jerusalem, and pray for the men that crucified Him; yet even He thinks it good to remind us of lost souls. Even He says, ‘Remember Lot’s wife.’

“It is a solemn warning when we think of the persons to whom it was given. The Lord Jesus was speaking to His disciples: He was not addressing the scribes and Pharisees who hated Him, but Peter, James, and John, and many others who loved Him’ yet even to them He thinks it good to address a caution. Even to them He says, ‘Remember Lot’s wife.’… He says, ‘Remember.’ He speaks as if we were all in danger of forgetting the subject…” [J. C. Ryle, Holiness: Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots, (London: James Clarke & Co., Ltd., n.d.), p. 164]