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John Gill's Exposition on Genesis 41:10
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, etc.] Not with all of them, but with the butler and the baker. Aben Ezra observes here, that Pharaoh was not the proper name of this king, but a title of office, and signifies the king; for it cannot be thought that the butler would use such freedom in his presence as to call him by his name: the true name of this prince, according to the eastern writers f1706, was Rian ben Walid; others take him to be Aphophis, the third of the Hycsi, or pastor kings: but, according to Bishop Usher f1707, his name was Mephramuthosis: and put me in ward in the captain of the guard’s house: in consequence of his wrath and displeasure, for crimes really or supposed to be committed by him; and the captain of the guard’s house was a prison, or at least there was a prison in it for such sort of offenders; and this was Potiphar’s, Joseph’s master’s, house: [both] me and the chief baker; which explains who the officers were Pharaoh was wroth with, and who were for their offences committed to prison.
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