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Pentecost, El Greco

Acts 2:16

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But this is what has been spoken through the prophet Joel:

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Augustine of Hippo

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.

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  • “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

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

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