Geneva Bible Notes (1560)Genesis 41

^{1 a} This dreame was not so muche for Pharoah, as to be a meane to deliuer Joseph, and to prouide for his Church.

^{1 /} Ebr. at the end of two yeres of daies.

^{2 /} Or, flaggy place.

^{5 b} All these meanes God vsed to deliuer his seruant, & to bring him into fauour and autoritie.

^{8 d} The wise of the worlde vnderstand not Gods secrets, but to his seruants his wil is reueiled.

^{8 c} This feare was ynough to teache him, that this vision was sent of God.

^{9 e} He confesseth his faute against the King, before he speake of Joseph.

^{12 /} Read {Chapter. 40,5}.

^{14 f} The wicked seke to the Prophets of God in their necessitie, whome in their prosperitie they abhorre.

^{16 g} As thogh he wolde say, if I interpret thy dreame, it cometh of God & not of me.

^{16 /} Ebr. answer peace.

^{19 /} Ebr. naught.

^{21 /} Ebr. were gone into their inwarde partes.

^{25 h} Bothe his dreames tend to one end.

^{26 !} Pharoahs dreames are expounded by Joseph.

^{29 /} Or, abundance and saturitie.

^{31 /} Or, they shal remembre no more the plentie.

^{33 i} The office of a true Prophet is not onely to shewe the euils to come, but also the remedies for the same.

^{38 k} None shuld be preferred to honour that haue not gifts of God mete for the same

^{40 !} He is made ruler ouer all Egypt.

^{40 /} Ebr. mouthe.

^{40 l} Some read the people shal kisse thy mouthe: that is, shal obey thee in all things.

^{42 /} Or, his signes.

^{43 m} In signe of honour: which worde some expound, tender father, or father of the King, or knele downe.

^{43 /} Ebr. seconde charet.

^{45 /} Or, priest.

^{45 /} Or, the expounder of secrets.

^{46 n} His age is mencioned both to shewe that his autoritie came of God, and also that he suffred imprisonment & exile twelue yeres and mo.

^{47 /} Ebr. made for gatherings.

^{51 o} Notwithstanding that his fathers house was the true Church of God: yet the companie of the wicked and prosperitie caused him to forget it.

^{51 !} He hathe two sonnes: Manasseh and Ephraim.

^{54 !} The famine beginneth throughout the worlde.

^{54 /} Or fode.

^{57 /} Or, came to Egypt to Joseph.