Post by Lee on Jan 7, 2017 15:19:55 GMT
Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years, or, to within seventeen years of the call of Abraham. With regard to the three sons of Noah—Shem, Ham, and Japheth, it is written that “of them was the whole earth overspread.”
An incident in the life of Noah is recorded in the ninth chapter of the book of Genesis, in connection with which Noah said, “Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant” (chap. 9:25–27). Canaan was the son of Ham and grandson of Noah. Ham having been guilty of improper conduct towards his father, the prophetic curse before cited was pronounced upon so much of Ham’s posterity as should descend from and through Canaan. This curse was inflicted upon the Canaanites in the subjugation of their land and its inhabitants by the Israelites, who were the descendants of Shem; and, subsequently, when the scattered remnants of their tribes were conquered and exterminated at Tyre, Thebes, Carthage, &c., by the Greeks and Romans, who were the descendants of Japheth.
1901 Christadelphian, 38(electronic ed.), 472–473.
An incident in the life of Noah is recorded in the ninth chapter of the book of Genesis, in connection with which Noah said, “Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant” (chap. 9:25–27). Canaan was the son of Ham and grandson of Noah. Ham having been guilty of improper conduct towards his father, the prophetic curse before cited was pronounced upon so much of Ham’s posterity as should descend from and through Canaan. This curse was inflicted upon the Canaanites in the subjugation of their land and its inhabitants by the Israelites, who were the descendants of Shem; and, subsequently, when the scattered remnants of their tribes were conquered and exterminated at Tyre, Thebes, Carthage, &c., by the Greeks and Romans, who were the descendants of Japheth.
1901 Christadelphian, 38(electronic ed.), 472–473.