And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river:
Ver. 17. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph.] Here begins Joseph's rise. Being in prison, be struck not fire, though he had a good brain: but waited till it came down from heaven to him, first in the butler's dream, and now in Pharaoh's. Had he ravenously roamed after preferment, and ravished it, as in his mistress's offer he might have done, it would have shunned him, &c.