Noah's sin reminds us how weak are the best of men; liable to fall, even after the most marvelous deliverances. The love of strong drink will drag a preacher of righteousness into the dust. But if our brethren sin, let us not parade or tell their faults, but cover them with the mantle of divine love. We may abhor the sin, but let us restore such an one in the spirit of meekness, remembering that we also may be tempted. See Galatians 6:1-18 :l-4. The Semitic races have been the source of religious light and teaching to the world. God has been known in their tents. The Japhetic races are the great colonizers and populators of the world, overflowing their own boundaries, and participating in the religious privileges of the Shemites. The progressive ideas of the race of Japheth, which, of course, includes the Indo-European race, have also pervaded the world. The Hamitic races, of which Canaan was one, have always gravitated downward. [source]
Chapter Summary: Genesis 9
1God blesses Noah and his sons, and grants them flesh for food 4Blood and murder are forbidden 8God's covenant, of which the rainbow was constituted a pledge 18Noah's family replenishes the world 20Noah plants a vineyard, 21Is drunken, and mocked by his son; 25Curses Canaan; 26Blesses Shem; 27Prays for Japheth, and dies
What do the individual words in Genesis 9:21 mean?
And he drankofthe wineand became drunkand he was uncoveredwithinhis tent
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: שָׂכַר
Sense: to be or become drunk or drunken, be intoxicated.