But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.
Ver. 18. Thou and thy sons.] Yet Ham, soon after, degenerated: for the present he concealed his wickedness from men; from God he could not. He bears with hypocrites in his visible Church for a season, till the time of separation. In area nobiscum esse possunt, in horreo non possunt, a "He will thoroughly purge his floor". Mat 3:12 "The Canaanite shall not be in the land any longer"; nor "the unclean spirit". Zechariah 13:2 ; Zec 14:21 O foelicem illam dieculam !
Two of every sort,] i.e., Two at least: for of clean creatures (fit for sacrifice) b there were more.
a Augustin.
b Rab. Solom.