An uncomplaining patience and an unhesitating hopefulness keep Joseph's heart in calm tranquility. There is a God above, and that God is with him. …

And pressed them. —Plutarch, Isis and Osiris, section 6, says that before the time of Psammetichus the Egyptians did not …

And Pharaoh's cup [was] in his hand
So it seemed to him in his dream, as it often had been when in his office:

It was not so much the prison that made the butler and baker sad, but rather their dreams. God has more ways than one to sadden spirits. Joseph had…