Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 40:5

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 40:5 - 40:5

Online Resource Library

Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 40:5 - 40:5

(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)

This Chapter Verse Commentaries:

40:1 - 40:1
40:3 - 40:3
40:4 - 40:4
40:5 - 40:5
40:9 - 40:9
40:12 - 40:12
40:16 - 40:16
40:18 - 40:18
40:20 - 40:20
40:23 - 40:23

they dreamed a dream - Joseph, influenced by the spirit of true religion, could feel for others (Ecc 4:1; Rom 12:15; Phi 2:4). Observing them one day extremely depressed, he inquired the cause of their melancholy; and being informed it was owing to a dream they had respectively dreamed during the previous night, after piously directing them to God (Dan 2:30; Isa 26:10), he volunteered to aid them, through the divine help, in discovering the import of their vision. The influence of Providence must be seen in the remarkable fact of both officers dreaming such dreams in one night. He moves the spirits of men.