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| Chapter CXXXIX.—The blessings, and also the curse, pronounced by Noah were prophecies of the future.
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Chapter CXXXIX.—The blessings, and
also the curse, pronounced by Noah were prophecies of the future.
“For another mystery was
accomplished and predicted in the days of Noah, of which you are
not aware. It is this: in the blessings wherewith Noah blessed
his two sons, and in the curse pronounced on his son’s son. For the
Spirit of prophecy would not curse the son that had been by God blessed
along with [his brothers]. But since the punishment of the sin would
cleave to the whole descent of the son that mocked at his father’s
nakedness, he made the curse originate with his son.2480
Now, in what he
said, he foretold that the descendants of Shem would keep in retention
the property and dwellings of Canaan: and again that the descendants of
Japheth would take possession of the property of which Shem’s
descendants had dispossessed Canaan’s descendants; and spoil the
descendants of Shem, even as they plundered the sons of Canaan. And
listen to the way in which it has so come to pass. For you, who have
derived your lineage from Shem, invaded the territory of the sons of
Canaan by the will of God; and you possessed it. And it is manifest that
the sons of Japheth, having invaded you in turn by the judgment of God,
have taken your land from you, and have possessed it. Thus it is written:
‘And Noah awoke from the wine, and knew what his younger son had
done unto him; and he said, Cursed be Canaan, the servant; a servant
shall he be unto his brethren. And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of
Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. May the Lord enlarge Japheth, and
let him dwell in the houses of Shem; and let Canaan be his
servant.’2481
Accordingly, as
two peoples were blessed,—those from Shem, and those from
Japheth,—and as the offspring of Shem were decreed first to
possess the dwellings of Canaan, and the offspring of Japheth were
predicted as in turn receiving the same possessions, and to the two
peoples there was the one people of Canaan handed over for servants; so
Christ has come according to the power given Him from the Almighty
Father, and summoning men to friendship, and blessing, and repentance,
and dwelling together, has promised, as has already been proved, that
there shall be a future possession for all the saints in this same land.
And hence all men everywhere, whether bond or free, who believe in
Christ, and recognise the truth in His own words and those of His
prophets, know that they shall be with Him in that land, and inherit
everlasting and incorruptible good.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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