The Scofield Bible Commentary: Genesis: Genesis Chapter 9
The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917]
and said unto them
The Noahic Covenant. The elements are:
(1) The relation of man to the earth under the Adamic Covenant is confirmed
(See Scofield) - (Gen 8:21)
(2) The order of nature is confirmed (Gen 8:22)
(3) Human government is established (Gen 9:1-6)
(4) Earth is secured against another universal judgment by water (Gen 8:21); (Gen 9:11).
(5) A prophetic declaration is made that from Ham will descend an inferior and servile posterity (Gen 9:24); (Gen 9:25).
(6) A prophetic declaration is made that Shem will have a peculiar relation to Jehovah (Gen 9:26); (Gen 9:27). All divine revelation is through Semitic men, and Christ, after the flesh, descends from Shem.
(7) A prophetic declaration is made that from Japheth will descend the "enlarged" races (Gen 9:27). Government, science, and art, speaking broadly, are and have been Japhetic, so that history is the indisputable record of the exact fulfilment of these declarations.
(See Scofield) - (Gen 8:21).
for the other seven covenants:
EDENIC (Gen 1:28)
ADAMIC (Gen 3:15)
ABRAHAMIC (Gen 15:18)
MOSAIC (Exo 19:25)
PALESTINIAN (Deu 30:3)
DAVIDIC (Sa2 7:16)
NEW (Heb 8:8).
saying
(See Scofield) - (Gen 9:1)
bow
The bow is not said to have come into existence at this time, but only to have been here invested with the character of a sign.
Compare (Exo 31:13).
Typically, the bow, seen upon the storm clouds of judgment (Gen 7:11) has been thought to speak of the cross where judgment, never to be repeated has been visted upon the believer's sins. (Gal 3:10-14); (Heb 10:14-18).
Cursed
See note subdiv. 5-7,
(See Scofield) - (Gen 9:1).