Holy Scripture

Genesis 40:7

A church father on this verse
“This remarkable man, however, concerned for their comfort, noticed that they were dismayed by the experience of the dreams and confused in mind; so he asked, "Why so downcast today?" The dejection on their faces, you see, betrayed the apprehension within them. Hence a sage too has said, "When the heart is free from ca…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — HOMILIES ON GENESIS 63.4

Source: Septuagint

Original

7And he asked the eunuchs of Pharaoh who were with him in the prison with his master, saying, Why is it that your countenances are sad today?

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5And they both had a dream in one night; and the vision of the dream of the chief cupbearer and chief baker, who belonged to the king of Egypt, who were in the prison, was this.

6Joseph went in to them in the morning, and saw them, and they had been troubled.

— Genesis 40:7 —

8And they said to him, We have seen a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said to them, Is not the interpretation of them through God? tell them then to me.

9And the chief cupbearer related his dream to Joseph, and said, In my dream a vine was before me.

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