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旧约 - 创世记(Genesis)第40章

Some time later, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt offended their master, the king of Egypt.
Pharaoh was angry with his two officials, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker,
and put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the same prison where Joseph was confined.
The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he attended them. After they had been in custody for some time,
each of the two men--the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were being held in prison--had a dream the same night, and each dream had a meaning of its own.
When Joseph came to them the next morning, he saw that they were dejected.
So he asked Pharaoh's officials who were in custody with him in his master's house, "Why are your faces so sad today?"
"We both had dreams," they answered, "but there is no one to interpret them." Then Joseph said to them, "Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams."
So the chief cupbearer told Joseph his dream. He said to him, "In my dream I saw a vine in front of me,
and on the vine were three branches. As soon as it budded, it blossomed, and its clusters ripened into grapes.
Pharaoh's cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes, squeezed them into Pharaoh's cup and put the cup in his hand."
"This is what it means," Joseph said to him. "The three branches are three days.
Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your position, and you will put Pharaoh's cup in his hand, just as you used to do when you were his cupbearer.
But when all goes well with you, remember me and show me kindness; mention me to Pharaoh and get me out of this prison.
For I was forcibly carried off from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing to deserve being put in a dungeon."
When the chief baker saw that Joseph had given a favorable interpretation, he said to Joseph, "I too had a dream: On my head were three baskets of bread.
In the top basket were all kinds of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head."
"This is what it means," Joseph said. "The three baskets are three days.
Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and hang you on a tree. And the birds will eat away your flesh."
Now the third day was Pharaoh's birthday, and he gave a feast for all his officials. He lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker in the presence of his officials:
He restored the chief cupbearer to his position, so that he once again put the cup into Pharaoh's hand,
but he hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had said to them in his interpretation.
The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot him.
创世记第四十章   第 40 章 

  创 40:1-3> 酒政和膳长,他们的遭遇你也大概知道一二吧…… 

  40:1-3 酒政和膳长是埃及王最信任的两位大臣。膳长负责为法老调制食物,酒政则将送到法老面前的饮食先行尝试,看有没有被污染或落毒。这两个曾深受法老信任的人涉嫌犯了严重的错误,也许他们二人同谋要杀害法老王。后来,酒政获得释放,而膳长则被处死。 

  创 40:8> 当有机会作见证时,我会如何使人的目光集中在神的身上? 

  40:8 当两位大臣要请人解梦时,约瑟并没有利用这个机会来显示自己的能力,而是把众人的注意力集中到神的能力上,为神作有力的见证。有效地见证神的方法之一,就是把握机会,把别人的体验跟神连接在一起。当机会来到,我们就要拿出勇气,像约瑟那样为神作见证。 

  创 40:23> 人生际遇常是坎坷,只是其背后的意义…… 

  40:23 当法老的酒政获得释放以后,本应当因自己重获自由而感谢约瑟,他却竟然把约瑟忘记了,约瑟足足多等了两年才得到另一个获释的机会。但约瑟仍充满信心为未到的机会作好准备。当我们觉得被人忽视、轻看、或是被人淡忘的时候,不要惊讶人常常忘恩负义,应当像约瑟那样倚靠神,说不定更多的机会在我们前面等候着我们。──《灵修版圣经注释》