Genesis 9:23 (WEB)
Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn’t see their father’s nakedness.
Fathers and councils · 4
John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X VIII.23Conference VIII
“Where had Shem and Japheth read “Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father,” so that they went backwards and covered the shame of their father?” — editor's note: Gen. ix. 23; Lev. xviii. 7.
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Ephrem the Syrian
“The brothers twain, that covered Noah, saw the only Son of God who should come to hide the nakedness of Adam, who was drunk with pride.” — editor's note: Gen. ix. 23.
Read the whole comment“Light teaches us, in that it makes like unto itself the eye the daughter of the sun: the eye by the light saw the nakedness, and ran and chastely hid the chaste man.” — editor's note: Gen. ix. 23.
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Clement of Alexandria
“For the modest son could not bear to look on the shameful exposure of the righteous man; and modesty covered what intoxication exposed—the spectacle of the transgression of ignorance.” — editor's note: Gen. ix. 23.
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