He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent.
Noah was no idle gentleman after the flood, he returned to his husbandman's work with humility and industry, though he was old, rich, and favored by Heaven. God can enlarge a small beginning beyond measure through His blessing; from these three sons the whole earth was peopled. When His providence interrupts our calling, we must take it up again faithfully once the occasion passes.
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Commenting on Genesis 9:18-23
Noah drank not knowing the wine's strength, whether from age, unfamiliarity, or simple ignorance of fermentation. Yet this fall was recorded not to shame him but to warn us against intemperance and to show that even the best of men are not secure from sin. He was righteous by faith, not by works that could never stumble.
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And he drank of the wine, and was drunken--perhaps at the festivities of the vintage season. This solitary stain on the character of so eminently pious a man must, it is believed, have been the result of age or inadvertency.