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Gen_9:21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
Ver. 21. And was drunk.] For his own shame, but our learning. Instruunt nos patres tum docentes tum labentes .{ a} The best have their blemishes, and a black part, as that cloud had, that conducted Israel out of Egypt; which, while the Egyptians followed, they fell into the sea. {Heb_11:29}
And was uncovered within his tent.] One hour’s drunkenness bewrays that which more than six hundred years’ sobriety had modestly concealed. Well might Solomon say, "Wine is a mocker"; {Pro_20:1} for it mocked Noah with a witness; and exposed him to the mockage of his own bosom-bird.
{a} Augustin.