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himself a father should have been more respectful to him that was his father.
23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their
shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.
The pious care of Shem and Japheth to cover their poor father's shame, Ge 5:23. They not only would not see it themselves, but provided that no one else might see it, herein setting us an example of charity with reference to other men's sin and shame; we must not only not say, A confederacy, with those that proclaim it, but we must be careful to conceal it, or at least to make the best of it, so doing as we would be done by.
1. There is a mantle of love to be thrown over the faults of all, 1Pe 4:8.
2. Besides this, there is a robe of reverence to be thrown over the faults of parents and other superiors.
24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son
had done unto him.
Noah comes to himself: He awoke from his wine. Sleep cured him, and, we may suppose, so cured him that he never relapsed into that sin afterwards. Those that sleep as Noah did should awake as he did, and not as that drunkard (Pr 23:35) who says when he awakes, I will seek it yet again.
25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan;
a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
He pronounces as a prophet the curse of God against all those who do not honour their parents: for Ham and his posterity were cursed.
The spirit of prophecy comes upon him, and, like dying Jacob, he tells his sons what shall befall them, Ge 49:1.
He pronounces a curse on Canaan the son of Ham (Ge 9:25), in whom Ham is himself cursed, either because this son of his was now more guilty than the rest, or because the posterity of