Genesis 40

Awake and sing, you that dwell in the dust. When the archangel's trumpet sounds, then the saints shall sing: the bodies of believers shall come out of the grave to be made happy: as the chief butler came out of prison, and was restored to all his dignity at the court: but the bo…

This was Asa's sin (2 Chronicles 16:12): in his disease he sought not to the Lord but to the physicians. The Jews think that one reason why Joseph continued two years in prison was his confiding too much upon the butler's remembrance of him and interest for his deliverance, whic…

In ancient times (and the custom in some places remains to this day) great men and princes kept the memory of their birth-days with feasting and triumph. Thus we read, (Genesis 40:20) And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh's birth-day, that he made a feast to all h…

Ioseph did Pharaoh's Butler a kindness, yet did not the chief Butler remember Ioseph; but forgat him. Genesis 40:23. 'Tis too usual to remember Injuries, and forget Friends; but God has a Book of Remembrance, where he writes down all his old friends. Near Relations may sometimes…

Consolation to the Righteous. Though at present they are slighted, and have the Odium of the World cast upon them, yet shortly God will make a Visible difference between them and the Wicked; as it was with Pharaohs two Officers, the Butler and the Baker; at first there seemed to…

First, what is meant by thoughts, especially as they are the intended subject of this discourse, which in so vast an argument I must necessarily set limits to: 1. By thoughts, the Scriptures do comprehend all the internal acts of the mind of man, of what faculty soever, all thos…

2. What is meant by keeping? In the Original it is, Above all keepings, keep your heart; but the word translated keeping, signifies two things usually in Scripture phrase; sometimes it signifies keeping a thing in custody, as it were in prison, so the word is taken (Genesis 40:3…

Secondly, by visions (Numbers 12:6, 8). Thirdly, by dreams (Job 33:14-15; Genesis 40:8). Fourthly, by Urim and Thummim (Numbers 27:21; 1 Samuel 30:7-8).