Genesi 40:18

And Joseph answered and said, This [is] the interpretation thereof: The three baskets [are] three days:

Ver. 18. And Joseph answered, &c.] It is probable he used some preface to this sad destiny he reads him; as Philo brings him in saying, I would thou hadst not dreamed such a dream: a or as Daniel prefaced to Nebuchadnezzar; "My lord, the dream be to them that hate thee, and the interpretation to thine enemies." Dan 4:19 If ministers, God's interpreters, must be mannerly in the form, yet in the matter of their message they must be resolute. a Not only toothless, but bitter truths must be told, however they be taken. "If I yet please men, I should not be the servant of Christ." Gal 1:10

a Utinam tale somnium non vidisses.