5169. 'And the chief of the cupbearers did not remember Joseph' means that a complete joining to the celestial of the natural did not as yet exist. This is clear from the meaning of 'remembering Joseph' as the reception of faith, dealt with above in 5130 - and consequently as a joining together too (faith is the means by which the joining together is effected, and therefore 'not remembering' here means that a complete joining together did not as yet exist); from the representation of 'the chief of the cupbearers' as the sensory perception belonging to the understanding part, and from the representation of 'Joseph' as the celestial of the natural, both of which representations are dealt with above.