The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 40:8
The interpreter of God's message. We cannot but notice the importance often assigned in the Bible to dreams, as channels of revelation from God. The dreams of Jacob and of Pharaoh, and passages such as Deuteronomy 13:1 and Joel 2:28 , show this. It may be that in the absence of the written word, which in its completeness is our heritage, God's message was thus given to them in portions. Applying this thought to the circumstances of the text, we see men who had received a message from... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 40:8
And they said unto him, We hays dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it —literally, a dream have we dreamt, and interpreting it there is none . This must be noted as a third peculiarity connected with these dreams, that both of their recipients were similarly affected by them, though there was much in the butler's dream to inspire hope rather than dejection. And Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God ?—literally, Are not interpretations to Elohim? i.e. ... read more