Baha'u'llah, in one of His Tablets, describes Himself as the "Divine Joseph" Who has been "bartered away" by the heedless "for the most paltry of prices". The Bab, in the Qayyumu'l-Asma', identifies Baha'u'llah as the "true Joseph" and forecasts the ordeals that He would endure at the hands of His treacherous brother (see note 190). Likewise, Shoghi Effendi draws a parallel between the intense jealousy which the preeminence of Abdu'l-Baha had aroused in His half-brother, Mirza Muhammad-'Ali, and the deadly envy "which the superior excellence of Joseph had kindled in the hearts of his brothers". (165:1)

2. We have unsealed the choice Wine with the fingers of might and power.
The consumption of wine and other intoxicants is prohibited in the Kitab-i-Aqdas (see notes 144 and 170). (165:2)

Reference to the use of "wine" in an allegorical sense--such as being the cause of spiritual ecstasy--is found, not only in the Revelation of Baha'u'llah, but in the Bible, in the Qur'an, and in ancient Hindu traditions. (165:3)

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