Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Holy Scriptures
Joel 2
The day of vengeanoe: the captivity is at hand : the Babylonian army is already on the march.9 St Jerome.
These are images of distress: "in which all the light of joy shall be taken away, and all shall be in darkness." Mem.
They shall not press one on the other. St. Jerome testifies the order and regularity of their move* meats, which make the mass of them as firm and compact as the tiles in a pared floor. w P. " They fall upon the sword." L. " They pass through between warlike weapons." St Jerome interprets " windows," which is now taken for a weapon. The locusts are uninjured, eren if they come in oontaot with weapons.
Jon. 3 : 9. u God may not only forgive, and remove the locusts, but impart fertility to the fields, and enable the Jews to make the offerings and libations prescribed in the law. R. rejects the Jewish interpretation which refers it to the sinner. L. " He that is conscious (of guilt), let him return and repent, when (the plague) may leave behind it a blessing ; even a meat-offering, and a drink-offering unto the Lord your God."
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