Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge VERSE (9) -
Ge 40:1-3,14,23
SEV Biblia
¶ Entonces el príncipe de los maestresalas habló al Faraón, diciendo: De mis pecados me acuerdo hoy:
Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 9. I do remember my faults] It is not possible he could have forgotten the circumstance to which he here alludes; it was too intimately connected with all that was dear to him, to permit him ever to forget it.
But it was not convenient for him to remember this before; and probably he would not have remembered it now, had he not seen, that giving this information in such a case was likely to serve his own interest. We are justified in thinking evil of this man because of his scandalous neglect of a person who foretold the rescue of his life from imminent destruction, and who, being unjustly confined, prayed to have his case fairly represented to the king that justice might be done him; but this courtier, though then in the same circumstances himself, found it convenient to forget the poor, friendless Hebrew slave
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Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 9-32 - God's time for the enlargement of his people is the fittest time. I the chief butler had got Joseph to be released from prison, it is probable he would have gone back to the land of the Hebrews. Then he had neither been so blessed himself, nor such a blessing to his family as afterwards he proved. Joseph, when introduced to Pharaoh, give honour to God. Pharaoh had dreamed that he stood upon the bank of the river Nile, and saw the kine, both the fat ones, and the lean ones come out of the river. Egypt has no rain, but the plenty of the yea depends upon the overflowing of the river Nile. See how many way Providence has of dispensing its gifts; yet our dependence is still the same upon the First Cause, who makes every creature what it is to us be it rain or river. See to what changes the comforts of this life ar subject. We cannot be sure that to-morrow shall be as this day, or nex year as this. We must learn how to want, as well as how to abound. Mar the goodness of God in sending the seven years of plenty before thos of famine, that provision might be made. The produce of the earth is sometimes more, and sometimes less; yet, take one with another, he tha gathers much, has nothing over; and he that gathers little, has n lack, Ex 16:18. And see the perishing nature of our worldly enjoyments The great harvests of the years of plenty were quite lost, an swallowed up in the years of famine; and that which seemed very much yet did but just serve to keep the people alive. There is bread whic lasts to eternal life, which it is worth while to labour for. They tha make the things of this world their good things, will find littl pleasure in remembering that they have received them.
Original Hebrew וידבר1696 שׂר8269 המשׁקים4945 את854 פרעה6547 לאמר559 את853 חטאי2399 אני589 מזכיר2142 היום׃3117
