And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
Genesis belongs among the divinely inspired writings, inseparable from the New Testament, and preserves literal history of Noah as a real man and the Flood as a historical fact. Through excessive use of wine Noah himself became drunken and lay uncovered within his tent in shame and disgrace and misfortune, without a sense of propriety. Even though favored of God and entrusted with great responsibility, he was overcome by temptation and sin, showing that even a believer who serves God can fall. The plain narration does not gloss over the sins of chief characters but tells the simple truth as justice requires.
His uncovered state tested his sons, and the unworthy made a capital of it, seizing it with impure minds as a pretext to resist his wise counsels and disregard his authority by severe criticism, mocking and derision, and eagerly telling others instead of concealing it. The faithful sons, with true filial love and sympathy, laid a garment upon their shoulders and walked backward to cover his disgrace. His loss of restraint brought a curse upon descendants that remained in effect, for God rebuked the unfilial conduct with a curse affecting posterity, and blessed the faithful sons who honored their father and remembered their posterity for good in blessings. His son was so debased by drinking wine that he lost all sense of propriety, and his sin brought a curse that remained on his descendants.
As men again multiplied after the Flood they indulged in wine to intoxication, which perverted the senses and prepared the way for excessive meat-eating and the strengthening of the animal passions. This indulgence lifted men up against the God of Heaven, devoting their faculties and opportunities to glorifying themselves rather than honoring their Creator, and gave Satan easy access to their hearts. It repeats the corruption through indulgence of appetite and debased passion in the days of Noah for which God destroyed its inhabitants by the waters of the Flood. Noah's day prefigures the present age, and the character of that generation specifies the character of this age just before Christ appears in the clouds of heaven, for human nature uninfluenced by the Spirit of God is the same in this age as in Noah's day.
The account of the failure of one who served God is preserved to warn later generations against the same evil and to teach obedience to the law of God and avoidance of evil. It teaches that the wages of sin is death and that retributive justice never fails, and it gives no excuse for sin. It also encourages desponding hearts by showing that even favored saints strive, waver and fall as present believers do, yet through God's grace can gain fresh vigor, rise above evil nature, conquer, recover ground and be blessed, so sinners need not despair but must renew the conflict and imitate only righteousness. The verse stands as an example for all sons as long as time lasts to honor, soothe, comfort, and compassionately care for a father even when his mind is overwrought and whatever course he pursues, rather than irritating him or failing in tenderness and affection.
Genesis belongs among the divinely inspired writings, inseparable from the New Testament, and preserves literal history of Noah as a real man and the Flood as a historical fact. Through excessive use of wine Noah himself became drunken and lay uncovered within his tent in shame and disgrace and misfortune, without a sense of propriety. Even though favored of God and entrusted with great responsibility, he was overcome by temptation and sin, showing that even a believer who serves God can fall. The plain narration does not gloss over the sins of chief characters but tells the simple truth as justice requires.
His uncovered state tested his sons, and the unworthy made a capital of it, seizing it with impure minds as a pretext to resist his wise counsels and disregard his authority by severe criticism, mocking and derision, and eagerly telling others instead of concealing it. The faithful sons, with true filial love and sympathy, laid a garment upon their shoulders and walked backward to cover his disgrace. His loss of restraint brought a curse upon descendants that remained in effect, for God rebuked the unfilial conduct with a curse affecting posterity, and blessed the faithful sons who honored their father and remembered their posterity for good in blessings. His son was so debased by drinking wine that he lost all sense of propriety, and his sin brought a curse that remained on his descendants.
As men again multiplied after the Flood they indulged in wine to intoxication, which perverted the senses and prepared the way for excessive meat-eating and the strengthening of the animal passions. This indulgence lifted men up against the God of Heaven, devoting their faculties and opportunities to glorifying themselves rather than honoring their Creator, and gave Satan easy access to their hearts. It repeats the corruption through indulgence of appetite and debased passion in the days of Noah for which God destroyed its inhabitants by the waters of the Flood. Noah's day prefigures the present age, and the character of that generation specifies the character of this age just before Christ appears in the clouds of heaven, for human nature uninfluenced by the Spirit of God is the same in this age as in Noah's day.
The account of the failure of one who served God is preserved to warn later generations against the same evil and to teach obedience to the law of God and avoidance of evil. It teaches that the wages of sin is death and that retributive justice never fails, and it gives no excuse for sin. It also encourages desponding hearts by showing that even favored saints strive, waver and fall as present believers do, yet through God's grace can gain fresh vigor, rise above evil nature, conquer, recover ground and be blessed, so sinners need not despair but must renew the conflict and imitate only righteousness. The verse stands as an example for all sons as long as time lasts to honor, soothe, comfort, and compassionately care for a father even when his mind is overwrought and whatever course he pursues, rather than irritating him or failing in tenderness and affection.