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But another servant there was of the king, who had been chief baker,
and was now bound in prison with the cupbearer; he also was in good hope,
upon Joseph's interpretation of the other's vision, for he had seen a dream
also; so he desired that Joseph would tell him what the visions he had
seen the night before might mean. They were these that follow: - "Methought,"
says he, "I carried three baskets upon my head; two were full of loaves,
and the third full of sweetmeats and other eatables, such as are prepared
for kings; but that the fowls came flying, and eat them all up, and had
no regard to my attempt to drive them away." And he expected a prediction
like to that of the cupbearer. But Joseph, considering and reasoning about
the dream, said to him, that he would willingly be an interpreter of good
events to him, and not of such as his dream denounced to him; but he told
him that he had only three days in all to live, for that the [three] baskets
signify, that on the third day he should be crucified, and devoured by
fowls, while he was not able to help himself. Now both these dreams had
the same several events that Joseph foretold they should have, and this
to both the parties; for on the third day before mentioned, when the king
solemnized his birth-day, he crucified the chief baker, but set the butler
free from his bonds, and restored him to his former ministration.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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