whereby he divineth] It was the manner of the heathens, (and it is like among them, of the Egyptians) in the Ceremonies of Divination sometimes to use a Cup, sometimes a Bason; and Joseph bearing himselfe as an Egyptian, and supposed by the people to be such a Diviner, and to use such Ceremonies, he taketh the matter upon him; or his Steward in his name speaketh as if he divined by that Cup: Or the words may be, not in which, or by which he divineth; but of which, that is, he can divine, that is, tell where it is, and who hath taken it away, or by this Cup discover your dealing in this businesse, though it were done in secret: Or the word in the Originall may signifie a prudent presaging or insight by conjecturall tryall; so there is no need to conceive that Joseph played the Soothsayer, after the Egyptian manner, which no doubt he detested, having a divination, or revelation from God of an higher, and holyer kind then this; yet in that he was content to be taken for an Egyptian Diviner, or fained that he consulted with Soothsayers, his simulation was his sinne, as his swearing before; for he was but a man, though of the best sort, and as a man no doubt had his faylings, as others of the Patriarchs: his example then is no patterne for any ones profession, or practise of such superstitious discoveries.