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Gen_40:18 And Joseph answered and said, This [is] the interpretation thereof: The three baskets [are] three days:
Ver. 18. And Joseph answered, &c.] It is probable he used some preface to this sad destiny he reads him; as Philo brings him in saying, I would thou hadst not dreamed such a dream: {a} or as Daniel prefaced to Nebuchadnezzar; "My lord, the dream be to them that hate thee, and the interpretation to thine enemies." {Dan_4:19} If ministers, God’s interpreters, must be mannerly in the form, yet in the matter of their message they must be resolute. {a} Not only toothless, but bitter truths must be told, however they be taken. "If I yet please men, I should not be the servant of Christ." {Gal_1:10}
{a} Utinam tale somnium non vidisses.