The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:
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Gill's Exposition
The sun shall be turned into darkness,.... As at the death of Christ, by a total eclipse of it:
and the moon into blood; as at the opening of the sixth seal, Rev 6:12.
before that great and…
Barnes' Notes
The sun shall be turned into darkness - See the notes on Mat 24:29. The same images used here with reference to the sun and moon are used also there: They occur not infrequently, Mar 13:24; 2Pe…
Adam Clarke
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood - These are figurative representations of eclipses, intended most probably to point out the fall of the civil and ecclesiastical state in…
We have here the first-fruits of the Spirit in the sermon which Peter preached immediately, directed, not to those of other nations in a strange language (we are not told what answer he gave to those…
Cambridge Bible
that great and notable day Instead of notablewe have in Joel terrible. The words of the N. T. are those of the LXX. The Hebrew verbs to fearand to seehave often been confounded in that version. On the…
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