Why the butler was restored to his functions and the baker hung from wood
A careful reader of ch. 40 of Genesis will note the familiar language of eating and drinking, this time in the guise of servants who pertain to preparing and serving food and drink; and thus pertain to preparing and serving the good of love and the truths of faith supportive of our growing in the good of love. They are servants here because the exterior of humankind is to be subject to the "inner human" -- the one to whom Paul refers in Ephesians ch.3 --and not the inner human subject to the exterior. Paul ditto: Romans 7:22-23 - King James Version (KJV) <22> For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: <23> But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. The story of the butler and the baker has been explained in one of the most challenging parts of Arcana Coelestia ; it encodes the necessity of rejecting the will of the Old Man whom we are to put off even...