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Gen_40:4 And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them: and they continued a season in ward.
Ver. 4. And the captain of the guard, &c.] This was Potiphar probably: who by this time saw his own error, and Joseph’s innocency; yet kept him still in prison, perhaps to save his wife’s honesty. Truth is the daughter of Time; {a} it wil1 not always lie hid. Splendet cure obscuratur; vincit cum opprimitur, Hinc, ut Pacis templum in media urbe extruxerunt olim Romani, ita Veritatis statuam in suis urbibus olim coluerunt Aegyptii. {b}
{a} The word Aëçèåéá is from á and ëçèåéí
{b} Caseus, in Ethic