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After these things, the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt. See also: Genesis 40:13Esther 6:1Nehemiah 1:11Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cup bearer and the chief baker. See also: Proverbs 16:141 Chronicles 27:27Proverbs 27:4He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound. See also: Genesis 39:20Genesis 39:23The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he took care of them. They stayed in prison many days. See also: Genesis 39:21-23Genesis 39:1Psalms 37:5They both dreamed a dream, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the cup bearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison. See also: Genesis 41:11Daniel 4:19Daniel 7:1-8Joseph came in to them in the morning, and saw them, and saw that they were sad. See also: Daniel 5:6Genesis 40:8Daniel 2:1-3He asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in custody in his master’s house, saying, “Why do you look so sad today?” See also: Nehemiah 2:21 Samuel 1:8Luke 24:17They said to him, “We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it.” Joseph said to them, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me.” See also: Daniel 2:47Genesis 41:15-16Daniel 2:28The chief cup bearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, “In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me, See also: Genesis 37:5-10Daniel 4:8Judges 7:13-15and in the vine were three branches. It was as though it budded, it blossomed, and its clusters produced ripe grapes. Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.” See also: Nehemiah 1:111 Kings 10:52 Chronicles 9:4Joseph said to him, “This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days. See also: Genesis 41:12Judges 7:14Genesis 41:25-26Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, the way you did when you were his cup bearer. See also: Psalms 3:3Jeremiah 52:312 Kings 25:27But remember me when it is well with you. Please show kindness to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house. See also: Joshua 2:12Luke 23:421 Samuel 20:14-15For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.” See also: 1 Peter 3:17-18Genesis 39:20Psalms 59:3-4When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, “I also was in my dream, and behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head. See also: Genesis 40:1-2In the uppermost basket there were all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head.” See also: Genesis 49:20Joseph answered, “This is its interpretation. The three baskets are three days. See also: Genesis 40:12Genesis 41:261 Corinthians 10:4Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you.” See also: Genesis 40:22Genesis 40:13Acts 20:27On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief cup bearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants. See also: Genesis 40:19Matthew 14:6Genesis 40:13He restored the chief cup bearer to his position again, and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand; See also: Genesis 40:13Nehemiah 2:1but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them. See also: Genesis 40:19Jeremiah 23:28Daniel 2:19-23Yet the chief cup bearer didn’t remember Joseph, but forgot him. See also: Job 19:14Psalms 31:12Psalms 105:19
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Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Genesis 40:1
Ver. 1. Two eunuchs; chief officers, and high in dignity, as the Hebrew expresses it, v. 2. H. --- Offended, perhaps, by stealing, or by some treasonable conspiracy. M.
↑ 1Genesis 40:2
Ver. 2. And, &c. Heb. "Pharao was enraged against two of his officers; against the chief of the butlers," &c. Mashkim. S.
Jerom translates this word procurator domus, "steward of the house." C. xv. 2. No slave was entrusted with these high offices in the courts of Egypt and of Persia.
↑ 2Genesis 40:3
Ver. 3. Commander. Putiphar. C. --- Prisoner, though his chains were struck off. M.
↑ 3Genesis 40:5
Ver. 5. According to, &c. foreshewing what would happen to them, as Joseph afterwards interpreted the dreams. T.
↑ 5Genesis 40:8
Ver. 8. Doth not interpretation belong to God? When dreams are from God, as these were, the interpretation of them is a gift of God. But the generality of dreams are not of this sort; but either proceed from the natural complexions and dispositions of persons, or the roving of their imaginations in the day on such objects as they are much affected with, or from their mind being disturbed with cares and troubles, and oppressed with bodily infirmities: or they are suggested by evil spirits, to flatter, or to terrify weak minds; in order to gain belief, and so draw them into error or superstition; or at least to trouble them in their sleep, whom they cannot move while they are awake: so that the general rule, with regard to dreams, is not to observe them, nor to give any credit to them. Ch. --- Physicians indeed, sometimes from some judgment of the nature of a distemper from dreams; on which subject, Hippocrates and Galen have written. But to pretend to discover by them the future actions of free agents, would be superstitious. Deut. xviii. 10. T. --- Justin (xxxvi. 2,) says, "Joseph was the first interpreter of dreams, and often gave proofs of his knowledge," &c.
↑ 8Genesis 40:14
Ver. 14. Prison, after examining into the justice of my cause.
↑ 14Genesis 40:15
Ver. 15. Hebrews. Chanaan, a foreign land with respect to Egypt, as was also Mesopotamia, where he was born. H. ---
Joseph only maintains his own innocence, without accusing any one. M.
↑ 15Genesis 40:16
Ver. 16. Of meal. Heb. may also mean "white, full of holes," &c.
↑ 16Genesis 40:19
Ver. 19. From thee, by decapitation. This was customary, when a person's body was to be hung on the cross or gibbet. Deut.
xxi. 22. Jos. x. 26. Lament. v. 12. 1 K. xxxi. 10. --- Birds. So Horace says, pasces in cruce corvos.
↑ 19Genesis 40:20
Ver. 20. Birth-day. This was a common practice among the pagans. S. Matt. xiv. 6. 2 Mac. vi. 7. C.
↑ 20Genesis 40:22
Ver. 22. That, &c. Thus was verified the prediction of Joseph.
M.
↑ 22Genesis 40:23
Ver. 23. Forgot. A thing too common among those who enjoy prosperity! H. --- God would not have his servants to trust in men. D. --- The butler was a figure of the good thief, as the baker represented the impenitent one, between whom our Saviour hung on the cross. C.
↑ 23License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses