And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.
Genesis belongs to the inspired words that cannot be separated from the New Testament, and this verse records literal history about Noah as a real person who lived, with the Flood standing as fact in history. It records that Noah awoke from his wine in his tent in his drunken, uncovered disgrace and learned what his younger son had done to him. The younger sons looked on his shame with impure minds, made a capital of it, and severely criticized and mocked and derided his misfortune. They seized on it as a pretext to resist his wise counsels and disregard his authority, and eagerly told their brothers instead of concealing it.
Though Noah was favored of God and entrusted with great responsibility, he was overcome by temptation and committed sin, even as people today strive, waver, and fall into error. Excessive use of wine had so debased his son that he lost all sense of propriety. The verse belongs to a faithful, explicit record that does not gloss over or suppress the sin, because divine justice requires a true narration of facts, and its plainness proves the truthfulness of Scripture. God rebuked this unfilial conduct and pronounced a curse that affected the offender's posterity, and the curse that followed the sin has remained on his descendants and has never been lifted.
God blessed the faithful sons who with filial love and sympathy covered their father, and remembered their posterity for good. The record is kept for the benefit and warning of all who read it, to teach the penalty of disobedience, that the wages of sin is death and God's retributive justice never fails. It is intended as a lesson for all following generations to warn against unbelief and disobedience and to keep readers from despair, by showing where Noah struggled and fell and that through God's grace fresh vigor can be gained to rise above the evil nature, take heart again, conquer, and press on.
Noah's day prefigures the present age, and the character of that generation marks the age before Christ's appearing in the clouds of heaven, because human nature uninfluenced by the Spirit of God is the same then as now. Intemperance is a weight that must be laid aside in the race for eternal life, having cursed the world almost from its birth. The verse stands as an example for all sons as long as time shall last that children must honor their father and not irritate, cross, or add to his cares, keeping the fifth commandment in order to receive its promised blessing.
Genesis belongs to the inspired words that cannot be separated from the New Testament, and this verse records literal history about Noah as a real person who lived, with the Flood standing as fact in history. It records that Noah awoke from his wine in his tent in his drunken, uncovered disgrace and learned what his younger son had done to him. The younger sons looked on his shame with impure minds, made a capital of it, and severely criticized and mocked and derided his misfortune. They seized on it as a pretext to resist his wise counsels and disregard his authority, and eagerly told their brothers instead of concealing it.
Though Noah was favored of God and entrusted with great responsibility, he was overcome by temptation and committed sin, even as people today strive, waver, and fall into error. Excessive use of wine had so debased his son that he lost all sense of propriety. The verse belongs to a faithful, explicit record that does not gloss over or suppress the sin, because divine justice requires a true narration of facts, and its plainness proves the truthfulness of Scripture. God rebuked this unfilial conduct and pronounced a curse that affected the offender's posterity, and the curse that followed the sin has remained on his descendants and has never been lifted.
God blessed the faithful sons who with filial love and sympathy covered their father, and remembered their posterity for good. The record is kept for the benefit and warning of all who read it, to teach the penalty of disobedience, that the wages of sin is death and God's retributive justice never fails. It is intended as a lesson for all following generations to warn against unbelief and disobedience and to keep readers from despair, by showing where Noah struggled and fell and that through God's grace fresh vigor can be gained to rise above the evil nature, take heart again, conquer, and press on.
Noah's day prefigures the present age, and the character of that generation marks the age before Christ's appearing in the clouds of heaven, because human nature uninfluenced by the Spirit of God is the same then as now. Intemperance is a weight that must be laid aside in the race for eternal life, having cursed the world almost from its birth. The verse stands as an example for all sons as long as time shall last that children must honor their father and not irritate, cross, or add to his cares, keeping the fifth commandment in order to receive its promised blessing.