Genesis 40:1
_Two eunuchs; chief officers, and high in dignity, as the Hebrew expresses it, ver. 2. (Haydock) --- Offended, perhaps, by stealing, or by some treasonable conspiracy. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Two eunuchs; chief officers, and high in dignity, as the Hebrew expresses it, ver. 2. (Haydock) --- Offended, perhaps, by stealing, or by some treasonable conspiracy. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_And, &c. Hebrew, "Pharao was enraged against two of his officers; against the chief of the butlers," &c. Mashkim. St. Jerome translates this word procurator domus, "steward of the house," chap. xv. 2. No slave was entrusted with these high offices in the courts of Egypt and of Persia._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Commander. Putiphar. (Calmet) --- Prisoner, though his chains were struck off. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_According to, &c. foreshewing what would happen to them, as Joseph afterwards interpreted the dreams. (Tirinus)_... [ Continue Reading ]
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... [ Continue Reading ]
_Prison, after examining into the justice of my cause._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hebrews. Chanaan, a foreign land with respect to Egypt, as was also Mesopotamia, where he was born. (Haydock) --- Joseph only maintains his own innocence, without accusing any one. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Of meal. Hebrew may also mean "white, full of holes," &c._... [ Continue Reading ]
_From thee, by decapitation. This was customary, when a person's body was to be hung on the cross or gibbet. (Deuteronomy xxi. 22; Josue x. 26; Lamentations v. 12; 1 Kings xxxi. 10.) --- Birds. So Horace says, pasces in cruce corvos._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Birth-day. This was a common practice among the pagans. (St. Matthew xiv. 6; 2 Machabees vi. 7.) (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER XL.... [ Continue Reading ]
That, &c. Thus was verified the prediction of Joseph. (Menochius)... [ Continue Reading ]
_Forgot. A thing too common among those who enjoy prosperity! (Haydock) --- God would not have his servants to trust in men. (Du Hamel) --- The butler was a figure of the good thief, as the baker represented the impenitent one, between whom our Saviour hung on the cross. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]