Joel 2:29 (WEB)
And also on the servants and on the handmaids in those days, I will pour out my Spirit.
Fathers and councils · 6
Cyril of Jerusalem
“…daughters shall prophesy; and afterwards, Yea, and on My servants and on My handmaidens I will pour out in those days of My Spirit, and they shall prophesy.”” — editor's note: Joel ii. 29.
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Jerome
“…the locust, and the blight, and predicts that after the overthrow of the former people the Holy Spirit shall be poured out upon God’s servants and handmaids; the same spirit, that is, which was to be poured out in the upper chamber at Zion upon the one hundred and twenty believers.” — editor's note: Joel ii. 29.
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Tertullian
“…Almighty God, in His most gracious providence, by “pouring out of His Spirit in these last days, upon all flesh, upon His servants and on His handmaidens,” has checked these impostures of unbelief and perverseness, reanimated men’s faltering faith in the resurrection of the flesh, and cleared from all obscurity…” — editor's note: Joel ii. 28, 29; Acts ii. 17, 18. [See last sentence. He improves upon St. Peter’s interpretation of this text (as see below) by attributing his own clear…
Read the whole comment“Now was absolutely fulfilled that promise of the Spirit which was given by the word of Joel: “In the last days will I pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh, and their sons and their daughters shall prophesy; and upon my servants and upon my handmaids will I pour out of my Spirit.”” — editor's note: Joel ii. 28, 29, applied by St. Peter, Acts ii. 17, 18.
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Aphrahat
“And of the Spirit of Christ again there is poured forth to-day upon all flesh, and the sons and the daughters prophesy, the old men and the youths, the men-servants and the hand-maids.” — editor's note: Joel ii. 28, 29.
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Augustine of Hippo
“He says, “And it shall come to pass after these things, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your old men shall dream, and your young men shall see visions: and even on my servants and mine handmaids in those days will I pour out my Spirit.”” — editor's note: Joel ii. 28, 29.
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Cross-references · 12
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Cited together in The City of God XVIII.30.
Cited together in The City of God XVIII.30.
Cited together in The City of God XVIII.30.
Cited together in The City of God XVIII.30.
Cited together in The City of God XVIII.30.
Cited together in The City of God XVIII.30.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 63.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 63.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 63.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 63.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 63.
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Acts 2:18 takes up the words of Joel 2:29 (9 words in common).