Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.
Joseph's interpretations came exactly true, with the chief butler restored to his office to again put the cup into Pharaoh's hand and the chief baker hanged as foretold. Before that, after Joseph had relieved his anxiety with the cheering interpretation, the butler thought and expected that if restored to favor he would certainly remember the captive Joseph and speak in his favor to the king. Yet in his prosperity after relief, after forming that intention and after seeing the interpretation exactly fulfilled, he forgot Joseph in his affliction and confinement in the gloomy prison.
That forgetting left Joseph there two years longer. The forgetting is fault and the sin of ingratitude. Ingratitude is a grave sin in God's sight, regarded by the Lord as among the most aggravating sins, abhorred by God and man, yet of daily occurrence. The butler remembered Joseph only when Pharaoh was troubled by remarkable dreams that the magicians of Egypt and the wise men could not explain, when seeing the king's distress brought Joseph to mind with conviction of forgetfulness and ingratitude and led him to confess his faults that day and to testify that a young Hebrew servant had interpreted his and the baker's dreams exactly according to the outcome of restoration and hanging.
Joseph's interpretations came exactly true, with the chief butler restored to his office to again put the cup into Pharaoh's hand and the chief baker hanged as foretold. Before that, after Joseph had relieved his anxiety with the cheering interpretation, the butler thought and expected that if restored to favor he would certainly remember the captive Joseph and speak in his favor to the king. Yet in his prosperity after relief, after forming that intention and after seeing the interpretation exactly fulfilled, he forgot Joseph in his affliction and confinement in the gloomy prison.
That forgetting left Joseph there two years longer. The forgetting is fault and the sin of ingratitude. Ingratitude is a grave sin in God's sight, regarded by the Lord as among the most aggravating sins, abhorred by God and man, yet of daily occurrence. The butler remembered Joseph only when Pharaoh was troubled by remarkable dreams that the magicians of Egypt and the wise men could not explain, when seeing the king's distress brought Joseph to mind with conviction of forgetfulness and ingratitude and led him to confess his faults that day and to testify that a young Hebrew servant had interpreted his and the baker's dreams exactly according to the outcome of restoration and hanging.