What if the cupbearer had remembered Joseph when he was re- instated two years previously? What might have happened to Joseph?
酒政大约在两年前获释，假如他当时记念约瑟，为他求情，约瑟出狱之后会怎麽样呢？Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.
酒政却不记念约瑟，竟忘了他。God had providentially placed Nehemiah in an influential and sensitive position as the cup- bearer of Artaxerxes, the king of Persia.
上帝已明显将尼希米置于有影响力的敏感地位上，使他成为波斯王亚达薛西的酒政。Now, he was a cupbearer in the Persian king's court and it was his responsibility to choose wine and safeguard it from poison.
现在，他在波斯王的宫殿里做酒政，责任是挑选御用的酒和确保酒里没有被投毒。(Gen. 40: 14). It would seem that after Joseph had helped the butler gain freedom, remembering him would have been high on his "to do" list.
（创世纪40：14新国际版）按理说，在约瑟帮助酒政获得自由后，提说他是这个酒政最应该做的事情。Joseph had one final word for the cupbearer: 'When you are back in favour with Pharaoh, please mention my case to him.
约瑟替酒政解梦的时候，最后曾恳请他：「你再次得到法老恩宠时，请向他提及我的案子。」The Cupbearer's job was to taste any drink that was given to the King to show it was not poisoned.
酒政的工作是先尝饮料才递给王以证明饮料没有毒。Different political change of the wine, alternately reflects the class balance of power changes.
不同酒政的更换交替，反映了各阶层力量的对比变化。He restored the chief cupbearer to his position, so that he once again put the cup into Pharaoh's hand.
恢复了酒政原来的职位，叫他可以把杯递在法老的手中；