A Treatise on the Words that Noah Uttered When He Awoke from His Wine, or On Sobriety.

 I. (1) Having examined in the preceding treatise what has been said by the lawgiver about wine and the nakedness which attends upon it, we will now be

 II. (6) Such then is the condition of the sober man but when Moses speaks of Noah's younger son, he is not so much meaning to make a statement resp

 III. (10) And again in his great song he calls the whole people, when it is smitten with a desire of innovation by the name suited to foolish and infa

 IV. (16) It has therefore been proved, that in many passages Moses is in the habit of calling a person young, having regard not to the age of the body

 V. (21) Therefore, the scripture is seen to prove each particular of what I have said more plainly to those who have taught themselves to obey one inj

 VI. (26) The prophet, then, in accordance with this law, and as it were shooting his arrows with happy aim at the appointed mark, in strict agreement

 VII. (31) We must now then consider whom the wise man here curses for this is one of the matters especially deserving of investigation, since he curs

 VIII. (34) A stationary position and motion differ from one another for the one is a state of tranquillity, but motion is impetuosity, of which last

 IX. (38) Therefore, the same assertion applies to those who live according to folly, and also to all those who live in accordance with virtue or vice.

 X. (44) Why then have I said these things, except with the object of teaching that Ham the son of Noah, is the name of wickedness in a state of inacti

 XI. (51) These things then, I imagine, have now been sufficiently discussed. Let us now examine the affair of the curses, and see what the case is wit

 XIII. (59) This, then, is the prayer which Noah offers for Shem let us now see what kind of prayer it is that he puts forth for Japhet. He says, May

 XIII. (62) Thus much we may say concerning breadth. We must now consider who it is who Noah prays may dwell in the tents of Shem, for he does not say

VII. (31) We must now then consider whom the wise man here curses; for this is one of the matters especially deserving of investigation, since he curses not the son who appears to have done the wrong, but his son, and his own grandson, of whom he has not mentioned any apparent sin at present, either small or great; (32) for the who from superfluous curiosity wished to see his father naked, and who laughed at what he saw, and who divulged what ought properly to have been concealed in silence, was Ham, the son of Noah; but he who bears the blame for the offences committed by the other, and who reaped the fruit of them in curses is Canaan; for it is said, "Cursed is Canaan the son, the servant, the servant of servants, shall he be to his Brethren."[Ge 9:25.] (33) And yet, as I said before, what sin had he committed? But they, who are accustomed to explain the formal, and literal, and obvious interpretations of the laws have perhaps considered this by themselves; but we, being guided by right reason, as it suggest itself to us, will interpret it according to the explanation which is ready to hand, having just made this necessary preface.