28 And afterward will I pour [a]out my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy: your old men shall dream [b]dreams, and your young men shall see visions.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 2:28 That is, in greater abundance, and more generally than in times past: and this was fulfilled under Christ, when as God’s graces, and his Spirit under the Gospel was abundantly given to the Church, Isa. 44:3; Acts 2:17; John 7:38, 39.
  2. Joel 2:28 As they had visions and dreams in old time, so shall they now have clearer revelations.

17 [a]And it shall be in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon [b]all [c]flesh, and your sons, and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 2:17 Peter setting the truth of God against the false accusations of men, showeth in himself and in his fellows, that that is fulfilled which Joel spake concerning the full giving of the holy Ghost in the latter days: which grace also is offered to the whole Church, to their certain and undoubted destruction, which do contemn it.
  2. Acts 2:17 All without exception, both upon the Jews and Gentiles.
  3. Acts 2:17 That is, men.

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