“Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.”
The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot him. The forgetting of the cupbearer is the concluding note of the chapter — the instrument of Joseph's deliverance forgets him. The two years that follow (Genesis 41:1) are the two years of the cupbearer's forgetting. The application: the human instrument that God will use to deliver Joseph forgets for two years. God does not forget. The delay is the human failure; the eventual remembering is the divine provision.
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