Acts 2:19 (WEB)
I will show wonders in the sky above, and signs on the earth beneath: blood, and fire, and billows of smoke.
Catechism · 1
“St. Peter will proclaim their fulfillment on the morning of Pentecost.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Acts 2:17-21.
Fathers and councils · 3
Augustine of Hippo
“But now not in his own voice, but in Thine who sentest Thy Spirit from above; through Him who “ascended up on high,” and set open the flood-gates of His gifts, that the force of His streams might make glad the city of God.” — editor's note: Acts ii. 19.
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Jerome
“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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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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