And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.
Ver. 41. See, I have set thee over all, &c.] So Antoninus, the emperor, made Pertinax, a a lowly man, but well qualified, consul, which many murmured at. But he was afterwards became emperor; and finding the public treasure woefully wasted by his predecessor Commodus, he restored it by his good husbandry, which many prominent men laughed at; caeteri, quibus virtus luxuria potior erat, laudabamus, saith the historian.
a Pertinax ob res praeclare gestas consul est factus: caius causa multi indignati sunt, &c. - Dio, in Vita Pertinacis.