Philo Judaeus De Cherubim 128

[128] And all sound reason would reproach Joseph for saying, "That the true interpretation of the dreams would be found out by means of God;" ¹ for he should have said, that owing to him, as the cause indeed, would be the unfolding and accurate understanding of those things which were obscure; for we are the instruments by whom the particular energies are developed, both in our states of tension and of relaxation; but the Creator is "he who gives the blow which sets in motion" the faculties of body and soul, by whom all things are moved.