Acts 2:16 (WEB)
But this is what has been spoken through the prophet Joel:
Fathers and councils · 6
Augustine of Hippo
“As I could, I have spoken; and as far as I can I see; and how far I see, I cannot speak.” — editor's note: [To spiritualize inebriation seems a difficult task; but as in heraldry we introduce the boar and the serpent for other qualities than their filth and their…
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Jerome
“…prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: and on my servants, and on my handmaidens I will pour out…of my spirit.”” — editor's note: Acts ii. 14–18.
Read the whole comment“There was shewn to her also the spot where the Holy Spirit came down upon the souls of the one hundred and twenty believers, thus fulfilling the prophecy of Joel.” — editor's note: Acts ii. 16–21.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“…Prophet, It shall come to pass on the last day, saith the Lord, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh, and their sons and their daughters shall prophesy.” — editor's note: Acts ii. 16, 17.
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Tertullian
“…then, Christ was announced by the Creator, “who formeth the lightning, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man His Christ,” as the prophet Joel says, since the entire hope of the Jews, not to say of the Gentiles too, was fixed on the manifestation of Christ,—it was demonstrated that they, by their being…” — editor's note: A supposed quotation of Amos iv. 13. See Oehler’s marginal reference. If so, the reference to Joel is either a slip of Tertullian or a corruption of his text;…
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John Cassian
“And indeed upon my servants and my handmaids in those days I will pour out of my Spirit, and they shall prophesy.”” — editor's note: Acts ii. 14–18.
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