Genesis 40:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

But think on me, &c.— The confidence which Joseph had in the certainty of the event which the dream foretold, is manifest from hence; nor can he be blamed for this application to human means, in order to clear himself and be delivered from confinement. He most probably informed the butler of his whole history; as we read, Genesis 40:15 that he told him he was stolen away, that is, secretly and by force sold for a slave to strangers; a crime which the Romans distinguished by the name of plagiary. Qui hominem liberum vendit, plagiarius est; "he who sells a freeman, is guilty of plagiary." I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, i.e.. that land in which the Hebrews sojourned, in which they were become very considerable, and well known to the AEgyptians, and which they were afterwards entirely to possess. See ch. Genesis 14:13.