and therefore was made into a commotion, it is called the people of Canaan, which is translated “commotion.” For it cannot say, “He set my feet upon a rock,”101 but being uncertain and wavering, it is always in motion. And this is why the holy man Noah, after he awoke from his sleep, laid a curse upon the name Canaan, saying: “Cursed be the boy Canaan; he will be the servant of his brothers.”102 But not only are all sinners “like Canaan,” but owing to the nature and diversity of their sins, some