Obeisance to my sheafe] This was but a dreame, the dreame of a child, but in the dreame was a mystery; and the meaning of it was that Josephs brethren should bow down to him, as their sheaves seemed to doe to his sheafe; if this had beene acted in the field it would have beene matter of amazement to them all; but then the providence of God in ordering the various affections, passions, and passages of his brethren towards him had not beene so manifest, nor his advancement so strange, and above their expectation, as when the presage was but a dreame, and that but Josephs owne dreame related of and by himselfe.