THEOSISJohn Chrysostom
After spending an extended period in confinement, both the chief cupbearer and the chief baker had a dream on the same night.
Genesis 40:5Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And they both dreamed a dream the same night, according to the interpretation agreeing to themselves:
וַיַּֽחַלְמוּ֩ חֲל֨וֹם שְׁנֵיהֶ֜ם אִ֤ישׁ חֲלֹמוֹ֙ בְּלַ֣יְלָה אֶחָ֔ד אִ֖ישׁ כְּפִתְר֣וֹן חֲלֹמ֑וֹ הַמַּשְׁקֶ֣ה וְהָאֹפֶ֗ה אֲשֶׁר֙ לְמֶ֣לֶךְ מִצְרַ֔יִם אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֲסוּרִ֖ים בְּבֵ֥ית הַסֹּֽהַר׃
The Church Fathers on this verse
2 Church Fathers comment on this verse
Ephraem the Syrian
In a short time, they both envisioned the events that were soon to unfold in their lives.
Cross references
Passages read together with this verse.
- Gen 41:11Where in one night both of us dreamed a dream foreboding things to come.
- Dan 2:1In the second year of the reign of Nabuchodonosor, Nabuchodonosor had a dream, and his spirit was terrified, and his dream went out of his mind.
- Dan 2:3And the king said to them: I saw a dream: and being troubled in mind I know not what I saw.
- Esth 6:1That night the king passed without sleep, and he commanded the histories and chronicles of former times to be brought him. And when they were reading them before him,
- Dan 4:19It is thou, O king, who art grown great, and become mighty: for thy greatness hath grown, and hath reached to heaven, and thy power unto the ends of the earth.
- Dan 4:5Till their colleague, Daniel, came in before me, whose name is Baltassar, according to the name of my god, who hath in him the spirit of the holy gods: and I told the dream before him.
- Gen 20:3And God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and he said to him: Lo thou shalt die for the woman that thou hast taken: for she hath a husband.
- Dan 7:1In the first year of Baltasar, king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream: and the vision of his head was upon his bed: and writing the dream, he comprehended it in a few words: and relating the sum of it in short, he said: