Genesis 9:21

Gen 9:21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.

Ver. 21. And was drunk. ] For his own shame, but our learning. Instruunt nos patres tum docentes tum labentes . a The best have their blemishes, and a black part, as that cloud had, that conducted Israel out of Egypt; which, while the Egyptians followed, they fell into the sea. Heb 11:29

And was uncovered within his tent. ] One hour’s drunkenness bewrays that which more than six hundred years’ sobriety had modestly concealed. Well might Solomon say, "Wine is a mocker"; Pro 20:1 for it mocked Noah with a witness; and exposed him to the mockage of his own bosom-bird.

a Augustin.