9:19 These [are] the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth {n} overspread.
(n) This declares what the virtue of God's blessing was, when he said, increase and bring forth in Ge 1:28.
9:18-23 The drunkenness of Noah is recorded in the Bible, with that fairness which is found only in the Scripture, as a case and proof of human weakness and imperfection, even though he may have been surprised into the sin; and to show that the best of men cannot stand upright, unless they depend upon Divine grace, and are upheld thereby. Ham appears to have been a bad man, and probably rejoiced to find his father in an unbecoming situation. It was said of Noah, that he was perfect in his generations, ch.
