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returning home, ¹⁷and said: There came vnto me the Hebrew seruant, whom thou didest bring hither, for to delude me: ¹⁸and when he heard me crie, he left the cloake which I held, and fled forth. ¹⁹His Master hearing these things, and giuing ouer light credit to his wiues words, was very wrath: ²⁰and deliuered Ioseph into prison, where the Kings prisoners were kept, and he was there shut vp. ²¹And ^[1] our Lord was with Ioseph, and hauing mercie vpon him gaue him grace in the sight of the chiefe of the prison. ²²Who deliuered in his hand al the prisoners that were kept in custodie: and whatsoeuer was done, was vnder him. ²³Neither did himselfe know any thing, hauing committed al things to him: for our Lord was with him, and directed al his workes.

 

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CHAP. XL.

 

Ioseph interpreteth the dreames of two Eunuchs prisoners, 12. that the one should be restored to his office, 16. the other be hanged. 20. The third day the euent declared the interpretations to be true, but Ioseph is forgotten.

 

THESE things being so done, it chanced that two Eunuchs, the cup-bearer of the king of Ægypt, and his baker, offended against their Lord. ²And Pharao being wrath against them (for the one was chiefe of the cupbearers, the other chiefe baker) ³he sent them into the prison of the captaine of the soldiers, in the which Ioseph also was prisoner. But the keeper of the prison deliuered them to Ioseph, who also ministred to them: some litle time was passed, and they were kept in custodie. ⁵And they saw each of them both a dreame in one night, according to an interpretation agreeing to themselues: ⁶to whom when Ioseph was entred in the morning, and saw them sad, ⁷he asked them, saying: Why is your countenance sadder to day then it was wont? ⁸Who answered: We haue seen a dreame, and there is no bodie to interprete it to vs. And Ioseph said to them: Why ″ doth not interpretation belong to God? Tel me what you haue seen. ⁹The chiefe of the cup-bearers first told his dreame: I saw before me a vine, ¹⁰wherin were three branches, growing by litle and litle into buds, and after the blossomes the grapes waxed ripe: ¹¹and the cup of Pharao in my hand: and I tooke the grapes, and wrong them into the cup which I held, and I gaue the cup to Pharao. ¹²Ioseph answered: This is the interpretation of the dreame: The three branches, are yet three dayes: ¹³after the which Pharao wil remember thy seruice, & wil restore thee to thy old degree: & thou shalt giue him the cup according to thyne office, as before thou haddest wont to doe. ¹⁴Only remember me,

1. God is more specially with his seruants in affliction then in prosperitie. S. Amb. li. de Ioseph c. 5.