Joel 3:1
For behold in those days, and in that time when I shall bring back the captivity of Juda and Jerusalem:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quia ecce in diebus illis, et in tempore illo, cum convertero captivitatem Juda et Jerusalem,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Διότι ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις ἐκείναις καὶ ἐν τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ ὅταν ἐπιστρέφω τὴν αἰχμαλωσίαν Ἰούδα καὶ Ἰερουσαλήμ,
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Joel 4:1
- כִּ֗י הִנֵּ֛ה בַּיָּמִ֥ים הָהֵ֖מָּה וּבָעֵ֣ת הַהִ֑יא אֲשֶׁ֥ר אשוב אֶת שְׁב֥וּת יְהוּדָ֖ה וִירוּשָׁלִָֽם
Haydock's commentary
Back. The people were just returned when the nations around fell upon them, and were miraculously defeated. (Theodoret)
We shall follow the system respecting Gog, given [in] Ezechiel xxxviii. (Calmet)
Most people, with St. Jerome, suppose that the general judgment is described, though some explain it of the captives delivered from their enemies. (Worthington)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
Tertullian A Treatise on the Soul, Dreams Variously Classified. Some are God-Sent, as the Dreams of Nebuchadnezzar; Others Simply Products of Nature
We declare, then, that dreams are inflicted on us mainly by demons, although they sometimes turn out true and favourable to us. When, however, with the deliberate aim after evil, of which we have just spoken, they assume a flattering and captivating style, they show themselves proportionately vain, and deceitful, and obscure, and wanton, and impure. And no wonder that the images partake of the character of the realities. But from God, who has promised, indeed, “to pour out the grace of the Holy Spirit upon all flesh, and has ordained that His servants and His handmaids should see visions as well as utter prophecies”, must all those visions be regarded as emanating, which may be compared to the actual grace of God, as being honest, holy, prophetic, inspired, instructive, inviting to virtue, the bountiful nature of which causes them to overflow even to the profane, since God, with grand im …
Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh, Holy Scripture Magnifies the Flesh, as to Its Nature and Its Prospects
You hold to the scriptures in which the flesh is disparaged; receive also those in which it is ennobled. You read whatever passage abases it; direct your eyes also to that which elevates it. “All flesh is grass.” Well, but Isaiah was not content to say only this; but he also declared, “All flesh shall see the salvation of God.” They notice God when He says in Genesis, “My Spirit shall not remain among these men, because they are flesh;” but then He is also heard saying by Joel, “I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh.” Even the apostle ought not to be known for any one statement in which he is wont to reproach the flesh. …