{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>It is difficult to discover from Scripture, whether, after the\r\ndeluge, traces of the holy city are continuous, or are so\r\ninterrupted by intervening seasons of godlessness, that not a\r\nsingle worshipper of the one true God was found among\r\nmen; because from Noah, who, with his wife, three sons, and\r\nas many daughters-in-law, achieved deliverance in the ark\r\nfrom the destruction of the deluge, down to Abraham, we do\r\nnot find in the canonical books that the piety of any one is\r\ncelebrated by express divine testimony, unless it be in the\r\ncase of Noah, who commends with a prophetic benediction\r\nhis two sons Shem and Japheth, while he beheld and foresaw\r\nwhat was long afterwards to happen. It was also by this\r\nprophetic spirit that, when his middle son—that is, the son\r\nwho was younger than the first and older than the last born—had\r\nsinned against him, he cursed him not in his own person,\r\nbut in his son's (his own grandson's), in the words, \"Cursed\r\nbe the lad Canaan; a servant shall he be unto his brethren.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_221_221\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_221_221\">[221]</a>\r\nNow Canaan was born of Ham, who, so far from covering his\r\nsleeping father's nakedness, had divulged it. For the same\r\nreason also he subjoins the blessing on his two other sons, the\r\noldest and youngest, saying, \"Blessed be the Lord God of\r\nShem; and Canaan shall be his servant. God shall gladden\r\nJapheth, and he shall dwell in the houses of Shem.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_222_222\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_222_222\">[222]</a> And<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_105\">[Pg 105]</a></span>\r\nso, too, the planting of the vine by Noah, and his intoxication\r\nby its fruit, and his nakedness while he slept, and the other\r\nthings done at that time, and recorded, are all of them pregnant\r\nwith prophetic meanings, and veiled in mysteries.<a id=\"FNanchor_223_223\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_223_223\">[223]</a></p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK SIXTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-175"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"57f0c5ec45b7d642f6961aea63b741c1e5568e4879d6341951a4d4b8c9d512df","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GEN","chapter":9,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gen. ix. 25","verse":25,"verse_end":25}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_221_221","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Provider catalog reports public domain in the USA. Original transcription title leaves state T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1871; printed translator allocation retained. Gutenberg credits Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries without an exact scan identifier. Full provider license preserved with acquired original; republication and per-work metadata remain unreviewed.","source_anchor":"Footnote_221_221","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_221_221\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_221_221\"><span class=\"label\">[221]</span></a> Gen. ix. 25.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_221_221","text_sha256":"e5cef69562cc97409057d636adb33edef1004da02a1a84967239cda9fd942f12","verified":false,"work_id":null}